Trump sued me, then had to acknowledge 30 times during a deposition that he had lied over the years about a wide range of issues.
Timothy L. O'Brien 12 June 2017, 9:00 pm AEST
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Trump also lied during the deposition about his business relationships with organized crime figures.
When my lawyers asked him whether he planned to sever his partnership with a developer named Felix Sater because of Sater’s mob ties, Trump said he hadn’t decided.
"Have you previously associated with people you knew were members of organized crime?" one of my lawyers asked.
"No, I haven't," Trump responded.
That wasn't true, however. Trump, despite what he said in the deposition, had knowingly associated with mob figures before.
When Trump entered the Atlantic City casino market in the late 1970s, two of his partners were men he knew to have organized crime ties: Kenneth Shapiro, who was a bag man for the Philadelphia mob, and Daniel Sullivan, who was a Mafia associate and a labor negotiator.
Trump originally told casino regulators in Atlantic City in 1982 that his partners were reputable people. But when Trump later chatted with me aboard his jet about his troubled gambling career -- almost 25 years after he entered Atlantic City -- his memories of Shapiro and Sullivan had changed again.
"They were tough guys," Trump told me. "In fact, they say that Dan Sullivan was the guy that killed Jimmy Hoffa." Sullivan "probably wasn't an honest guy," Trump added, and Shapiro "was like a third-rate, local real estate Mafia."
Trump’s propensity for lying was also on display throughout the 2016 presidential campaign.
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