He allegedly made The Don an offer he refused.
Notorious former mob hitman and turncoat Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano lauded former President Donald Trump as a “gangster” this week — and claimed he repeatedly tried and failed to grease his palm decades ago.
“You can’t bribe him. I know that as a kid growing up. I was in the mob, I tried to bribe him, never worked. Never, never worked. And it was beneficial to him, he just wouldn’t do it,” Gravano told his more than 600,000 YouTube subscribers.
The famous mobster said personal financial gain is “the furthest thing from [Trump’s] mind.
“What’s on his mind is to straighten the country out. And I don’t care if it’s a man or a woman, whether they’re good-looking, ugly, skinny, fat, I don’t care about none of that — what color they are. I care about their policies. Trump is a businessman, his policies are great, he’s a tough guy,” Gravano said.
“I’m gonna call him a gangster. We need a gangster,” he said of Trump, whose former wife Ivanka called him “The Don.”
It wasn’t the first time Gravano praised Trump’s refusal to be bought.
Earlier this year in an interview, the ex-president shared a clip of the former mob underboss claiming, “I tried to get him, he just wouldn’t bite” on Instagram and thanked Gravano for his support.
Gravano rose through the ranks to become underboss of the Gambino crime family before striking a deal in which he testified as a government witness against dozens of fellow mobsters including Gambino boss John Gotti — a k a the “Dapper Don” and “Teflon Don” — and consigliere Frank LoCascio, who in 1992 were both sent to prison for life without parole on the strength of his testimony.
The Bull himself was given a five-year prison term — despite confessing to involvement in 19 murders — before briefly entering the federal Witness Protection Program.
In 2002, after being indicted on federal drug charges with his son, Gerard, Gravano was sentenced to 20 years in prison in New York and 19 years in Arizona, to be served concurrently. He was released in 2017.
