This is exactly what the mob was doing with the unions and all sorts of businesses back in the day. Trump knew a lot of those guys through Roy Cohn. The mob never really went under, just the stupid ones like Gotti that did their business in the open. The smart ones met guys like Cohn who could wash their money and put it to work to legitimize them. They formed a little chrysalis, an organized crime/politics incubation chamber, and what emerged was Donald Trump.
This is exactly what the mob was doing with the unions and all sorts of businesses back in the day. Trump knew a lot of those guys through Roy Cohn. The mob never really went under, just the stupid ones like Gotti that did their business in the open. The smart ones met guys like Cohn who could wash their money and put it to work to legitimize them. They formed a little chrysalis, an organized crime/politics incubation chamber, and what emerged was Donald Trump.