"New York was so totally corrupt and so controlled by the mob in the '80s that in order to be a successful businessman, you had to have some way to work that world," said former FBI agent Walt Stowe.
Trump went into a drywall manufacturing business with Daniel Sullivan, which was represented by Roy Cohn.
Trump appears to have learned a lot about the mob from Roy Cohn whom he met in 1973 at a New York Night club.
Cohn mentored a young Donald Trump in mafia-style politics.
Sometime in 1979, Roger Stone met Donald Trump for the first time.
The meeting was arranged by Roy Cohn.
It’s safe to assume that Trump met Paul Manafort shortly after, since Stone and Manafort went into business together in 1980.
Trump said of Daniel Sullivan - “He portrayed himself to be the closest person on earth to the FBI.”
One day in April 1981, Sullivan walked into Trump’s Manhattan office with two men in suits.
They were FBI agents, and they wanted to talk to Trump about organised crime.
Trump welcomed them in.
Trump
soon deepened his interactions with Sullivan, who turned out to be an
FBI informant, and cultivated a friendship with one of the FBI agents, a
young investigator named Walt Stowe, who was one of Sullivan’s handlers
at the agency.
Trump collaborated on a plan with Stowe and other FBI agents to allow an undercover operation at his first casino.
Trump said he continued working with Sullivan only after Stowe and another agent vouched for him as “100 percent clean.”
Trump has spoken little about his interactions with the FBI or his friendship with Stowe.
Trump told The Post that Stowe was a “high-quality guy” but “not a pal.”
Stowe said he remains fond of Trump and never saw him do anything illegal.
He said he considered both Trump and Sullivan to be “professional friends.”
Friends and associates recall Sullivan as a giant of a man with great charm and the embodiment of a gregarious Irishman.
Former law enforcement officials say Trump had a close and curious relationship with the New York division of the FBI.
Former
FBI Special Agent Mark Rossini said he had not personally witnessed
Trump in the bureau's office, though others had and Trump may have been a
"hip-pocket source" for James Kallstrom, and Rudy Giuliani, the top
federal prosecutor in Manhattan, who would later become mayor of New
York and, eventually, Trump's personal lawyer amid the "Russiagate"
probe.
Kallstrom denied that Trump was a source. (Expected)
Kallstrom, a former Marine, grew close to Trump over the years.
The
real estate developer donated over $230,000 to Kallstrom's Marine
Corps–Law Enforcement Foundation (in which Rush Limbaugh was a director)
and provided it free space in his Atlantic City casinos for
fundraisers, according to several accounts.
Kallstrom became an
influential Trump defender and Hillary Clinton critic during the 2016
campaign, bashing then–FBI Director James Comey for failing to nail
Clinton on her private email server and accusing Obama administration
officials of committing "perjury" in their pursuit of Russian ties to
Trump and his associates.
In March 2018, he went further, accusing
Comey and disgraced former FBI counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok of
having "a backup plan to frame Donald Trump" as a Russian agent.
Former
FBI Special Agent Myron Fuller, who gained fame for the FBI bribery
sting (dramatised in the movie American Hustle) said "Trump was an
informant for somebody in the FBI New York office."
A remark Trump
himself made at an event years later suggested he was well placed to
share tips on Mafia personalities with favoured FBI officials.
During
the height of his fame as star of The Apprentice, Trump claimed that
"every network" tried to get him to do a reality show, but he refused.
"I
don't want to have cameras all over my office, dealing with
contractors, politicians, mobsters and everyone else I have to deal with
in my business," he told a 2004 panel at the Museum of Television and
Radio in L.A.
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