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In reply to the discussion: Trump just posted this. Make no mistake, this is a death threat at Judge Engoron and Federal Judge Kaplan. [View all]pnwmom
(109,636 posts)I think Gravano's following the Mafia code of silence. Trump was in deep, and so he's still being protected.
"What we see in this astonishing tweet is an implicit endorsement by the president of the United States of omertà, the Mafia code of silence, which has been honored, especially over the past 30 years or so, more in theory than in practice.
"Trump expanded upon his views this morning, in an interview on Fox & Friends, in which he seemed to refer, obliquely, though elegiacally, to the dismantling of the Mafia in New York City (an effort led for a time by his current attorney Rudy Giuliani).
Its called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal, Trump said. I know all about flipping. For 30, 40 years, I have been watching flippers. Everything is wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is or as high as you can go.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trump-gravano-gotti-mafia/568273/
And, according to Gravano, Trump didn't have the option of steering clear of Trump.