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Trump has worked hard to make sure few... know about his lifelong entanglements with a major cocaine trafficker [Joseph Weichselbaum].., with American and Russian mobsters and many mob associates, and with various con artists and swindlers.

— David Cay Johnston The Making of Donald Trump (2017)

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Source: See also: David Cay Johnston, Just what were Donald Trump’s ties to the mob? Politico (May 22, 2016)
Work: The Making of Donald Trump, 2017
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