TheHill.com: Video Shows Trump with Alleged Mob Figure He Denied Knowing
- Video shows GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump along side mobster attending Wrestlemania event
- Robert LiButti was banned from entering Atlantic City casinos in 1991 due to alleged Mob associations
- Trump: “If he was standing here in front of me, I wouldn’t know what he looked like"
- Trump was coming in with 2-1 odds of becoming next US President
Over the course of his Presidential campaign, some media outlets have attempted to link the GOP nominee Donald Trump to a mobster Robert LiButti, reportedly a John Gotti associate. Trump denied knowing LiButti but TheHill.com on Wednesday released a video showing the US Presidential candidate standing along side him.
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LiButti was banned from New Jersey’s casinos in 1991 due to his connection with Gotti. Trump’s appearance with LiButti at a “Wrestlemania” event was three years prior to the ban.
According to TheHill.com and Yahoo News:
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission that same year also levied $650,000 in fines against the Trump Plaza hotel, the news outlet added. The penalty stemmed from LiButti gambling huge sums at the hotel’s casino before his death in 2014.
“That’s definitely Bob LiButti standing right next to Donald Trump,” said David Cay Johnston, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter who extensively interviewed LiButti in the 1990s. "It’s an event that Bob described to me a quarter century ago in his Saddle River home.
“The ‘Wrestlemania’ event is just one of many times that Trump was close to Bob, who was the biggest loser at Trump casinos and therefore Trump’s most important customer.”
The Trump campaign downplayed their appearance together, suggesting that standing near the man or even speaking with him is not necessarily an indication that the two men were close.
“This was obviously a massive event, which took place decades ago,” spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in an email to Yahoo. "Mr. Trump attended many similar events with thousands of people during this time period."
Trump himself had previously stated: “If he was standing here in front of me, I wouldn’t know what he looked like.”
Judging by the public’s overall fascination with the Mob and the glorification of organized criminal figures on television and in the movies, it is unclear what, if any, negative impact this latest revelation might have on the Trump campaign.
Trump's odds of becoming the next US President were tilting around 2-1 with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton the odds-on favorite to win at 1-2 odds, down dramatically from a peak of 1-7 just two weeks ago.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
