Why would the president connect himself in public with a convicted felon?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Donald Trump appears alongside convicted felon with mobster ties at New Year's Eve party


President-elect Donald Trump rang in the new year together with Joseph "Joey No Socks" Cinque — a convicted felon with ties to notorious Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, a recently released video has revealed.

Cinque can be seen in a video obtained by the Palm Beach Daily News, cheering loudly as a tuxedo-clad Trump runs through a number of campaign promises before the hundreds of guests attending the New Year's Eve bash the President-elect threw at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Saturday.

"The taxes are coming down, regulations are coming off, we're going to get rid of Obamacare," Trump can be heard saying as an exuberant Cinque stands next to him, pumping his fists into the air.

Cinque's Sunday appearance with Trump might raise some eyebrows.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-appears-mobster-affiliated-felon-new-year-bash-article-1.2932315

Joey No Socks has more than a passing resemblance to this guy:

I'm telling you this Trump guy is no f----ing good !

[2naSalit]

1. Because...

lack of scruples/ethics and certain to be absolved should anyone notice.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Because, Republicans...

are simply too corrupt to say or do a thing about it.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. In case you case you hadn't noticed, DT has pretty much done everything he wants during this

entire election cycle and no one has been able to alter his behavior. He doesn't see any reason to start acting Presidential. His fans see it as part of his charms. They don't seem to understand that he's a national embarrassment.

[HoneyBadger]

4. His in law is a felon

as is Hillary's.

A no felon policy would mean no grandkids to play with grandpa.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

11. Were either of them mobsters?

A President-elect hanging out with a mobster... And you're defending that?

[HoneyBadger]

14. Mobster is a dog whistle not a legal term

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. You choose your friends. You don't choose your in laws.

Mobster is a dog whistle not a legal term

By that definition Michael Corleone wasn't a mobster. He was never convicted of anything.

His in law is a felon

as is Hillary's.

A no felon policy would mean no grandkids to play with grandpa.

You choose your friends. You don't choose your in laws. You can only miss that difference if you try.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

18. The interlocutor is obvious. Nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. He is correct. Jared Kushner's dad is a convicted felon. Chris Christie nailed him !

However Joey No Socks is an associate. That is a huge difference.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

21. Oh, I know he's correct about Kushner.

But trying to equate family (no choice) with friends (choice) in an attempt to give Orange Fucktrumpet a pass is obvious.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. Google Trump/Fat Tony Salerno.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

25. I'm sure there's PLENTY of Trump/Mafia connections.

You don't get big in NY in the 70s and 80s without a couple mobsters getting their cut.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. Did you watch the Sopranos where contractors used mob muscle to stop strikes?

Trump used mob muscle to put down labor unrest too.

This begs the question. How did Americans elect such a corrupt guy?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

27. Ya know, I watched the first couple episodes of The Sopranos

and while I enjoyed it, I never finished it.

How did Americans elect such a corrupt guy? Through corruption, of course (Putin, voter purges, Comey, fake email scandal, and a media who REFUSED to call out Trump's lies).

[Dr Hobbitstein]

22. Mobster is a dog whistle term?

Dude was in the mob, hence he was a mobster.

[MFM008]

5. He's a scumbag????

??????

[malaise]

6. He's not the president

yet

[hadEnuf]

7. He's rubbing it in everybody's faces.

"Hey, look at me! I can openly do what I accused my opponents of doing 'cause I'm gonna be fuckin' president".

SUCKERS!!!!


Trump might as well be a Mafia don.

[kairos12]

8. Because Reich Wing Muerica.

[dumbcat]

9. The President didn't connect himself with a felon

That was Donald Trump, silly.

[Turbineguy]

10. He wants to be like Reagan?

And appeal to his base?

[Scurrilous]

12. He's selling pardons on the side?

[Comatose Sphagetti]

13. Guilt by association is bullshit. NT

[McCamy Taylor]

15. Because he is the Bandit King.

[Vinca]

17. I'm sure the intelligence agencies he's pissed off will find out for us.

I don't think Trump's mob connections have been a big secret.

[annabanana]

20. A) Because he's a thug himself.. Just an "unconvicted felon"

If you can be afelon and not get held accountable,

You are rich (and "smart" by his lights)

[librechik]

23. Trump is clueless and very very proud of that fact.

the next 4 years are going to be the end of the US