Former US President Donald Trump thanked hitman Salvatore Gravano on Saturday, which raised eyebrows on social media.
Gravano, also known as “Sammy the Bull,” was the leader of the Gambino crime family in New York City and worked with the U.S. government as an informant to bring down mob boss John Gotti in the early 1990s.
Gravano, who admitted his involvement in 19 murders, was released from prison in 2017 after being sentenced to 20 years on drug charges in Arizona.
Trump shared a clip of a television interview with Gravano in which the latter described Trump as a “legitimate man.”
Trump wrote: “Thank you Sammy the Bull. I hope the judges understand that we need justice, strength and honesty in the New York courts, and now we don’t have it.”
In the interview clip, Gravano said he “couldn’t get Trump to work for him, and that Trump just didn’t want to get involved with the mob.”
He added: “I tried several times to put pressure on him, but I couldn’t reach him. He didn’t want to.”
“Trump thanks Gambino mobster, rat and serial liar Gravano, who has confessed to 19 murders, countless kidnappings, armed robberies, burglaries and thousands of other crimes,” Ron Filipkowski, an outspoken Trump critic, wrote Saturday in X .
2024-01-14 06:11:36
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