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Trump, 79, Melts Down at Being Challenged to a Walk by Dem, 46
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Sopranos S02E10 has a great example of a Bust Out in practice, as they effectively dismantle a department store from the inside.
This isn't just Trump. It's a business practice prioneered back in the 1980s and repeated successfully for decades.
And while Trump certainly had a lot of Russian mob connections, I believe there's just as much of a relationship with the Tony Salerno and the Genovese family by way of Roy Cohn. Incidentally, the Italian mob was instrumental in cowing migrant workers and breaking nascent union movements across NYC for most of the 20th century. The big crack downs on organized crime didn't happen until the end of the Soviet Union, in the early 90s, when they'd exhausted their usefulness.
Curiously, this is when organized crime in Russia exploded and you began to see a lot of black market organizations working to loot the old Soviet System on behalf of Wall Street.
But up until the late Clinton/Early Bush Era, Trump was more closely associated with the Italian mob.