That time Trump spent New Year’s Eve with a felon
… was a few days ago! In case you missed it, meet “Joey No Socks” Cinque:
President-elect Donald Trump rang in the new year not by planning how to run the country, or meeting with his staff and deputies, but by hanging out with a bunch of rich people he may be doing business with and telling them, yet again, that he’s going to cut their taxes.
Palm Beach Daily News got its hands on video of Donald Trump giving a rambling 10-minute speech to 800 guests at his $500-per-plate New Year’s Eve black tie gala at Mar-a-Lago, the president-elect’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida.
The video shows Trump, on mic, promising guests that, “The taxes are coming down, regulations are coming off, we’re going to get rid of Obamacare,” while, to his left, Joseph “Joey No Socks” Cinque — founder and chairman of the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences and known associate of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, claps and fist-pumps. To Trump’s right, another man in a tuxedo holds an ornamental brass eagle.
In 1989, “Joey No Socks” was convicted of felony possession of stolen artwork worth upwards of $100,000. Now, Cinque, through his Academy, gives out Star Diamond awards to upscale hotels — including several of Trump’s. The Associated Press found that roughly half of the Academy’s trustees are Trump-affiliated, but Trump in May denied knowing Cinque: “If a guy’s going to give you an award, you take it. You don’t tend to look up his whole life story.”
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
6 responses to That time Trump spent New Year’s Eve with a felon
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Suzanne McFly January 3rd, 2017 at 19:41
I figured they were talking about Don King, but someone from the Gambino family counts.
robert January 3rd, 2017 at 20:20
The trumpster advocates no smoking or drinking ( alcohol ) yet plenty of the above was going on Jan,1 2017 at his party
whatthe46 January 3rd, 2017 at 21:16
he sounds like a muslim to me.
Buford2k11 January 3rd, 2017 at 21:15
If you read the Oath of Office that Trump is about to take, he will break his oath as soon as he lifts his hand from the Bible…that is what we can expect, from previous behavior…Trump is not really unpredictable at all…he may try to make it seem that way, but he is a simpleton who knows how to bully and berate is foes…A wannabe tough guy, wise guy…the mob has settled in for the long haul…and they will call in their chits…just like the russians will….
William January 3rd, 2017 at 22:17
Well said. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/27acfebda24350151c9bbb3969ae26c2264d6fb458b53062ad01f838f4dd73ff.jpg
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