Donald Trump spends New Year's Eve with convicted felon, Dubai billionaire: "The taxes are coming...

[DonViejo]

Donald Trump spends New Year’s Eve with convicted felon, Dubai billionaire: “The taxes are coming down”

Recently released video shows Trump stumping while, to his left, Joseph "Joey No Socks" Cinque cheers him on

BRENDAN GAUTHIER

President-elect Donald Trump rang in the new year not by planning how to run the country, or meeting with his staff and deputies, but by hanging out with a bunch of rich people he may be doing business with and telling them, yet again, that he’s going to cut their taxes.

Palm Beach Daily News got its hands on video of Donald Trump giving a rambling 10-minute speech to 800 guests at his $500-per-plate New Year’s Eve black tie gala at Mar-a-Lago, the president-elect’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida.

The video shows Trump, on mic, promising guests that, “The taxes are coming down, regulations are coming off, we’re going to get rid of Obamacare,” while, to his left, Joseph “Joey No Socks” Cinque — founder and chairman of the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences and known associate of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, claps and fist-pumps. To Trump’s right, another man in a tuxedo holds an ornamental brass eagle.

In 1989, “Joey No Socks” was convicted of felony possession of stolen artwork worth upwards of $100,000. Now, Cinque, through his Academy, gives out &t=63s" target="_blank">Star Diamond awards to upscale hotels — including several of Trump’s. The Associated Press found that roughly half of the Academy’s trustees are Trump-affiliated, but Trump in May denied knowing Cinque: “If a guy’s going to give you an award, you take it. You don’t tend to look up his whole life story.”

more + video:
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/03/donald-trump-spends-new-years-eve-with-convicted-felon-dubai-billionaire-the-taxes-are-coming-down/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Bebe Rebozo Redux?

Is Joey No Socks a bagman for Trump?
Is Trump in cahoots with the mob? Or beholden to them?
What the heck is Trump doing on stage with a gangster
and why isn't the Press having a field day with this !!! ??
It's unPresidented.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

2. "Donald Trump spends New Years Eve with convicted felon..."

Guilt by association is bullshit.

[rug]

3. How about "Convicted felon spends New Year's Eve with unconvicted felon"?

[Comatose Sphagetti]

4. Much better