Former US President Donald Trump, recently announced that he is preparing to run for president in 2024, but so far continues to cause public uproar. After hosting holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago estate, a photo is now being sought in which he is photographed with a convicted felon and one of the former mafia bosses in the city of Philadelphia, as reported last night in the “Philadelphia Inquirer”.
According to the details provided on the website, the photo obtained by the newspaper was taken at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, in South Florida. Those photographed next to Trump are Joseph Marlino, on the right, known as “Skinny Joey” and his friend. In the photo, the former president is seen wearing a hat with the election slogan that was associated with him in the 2016 campaign: “Make America Great Again.”
A few weeks after Trump dined with a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semitism spewing celebrity, he posed for a photo with a former Philly mob boss at his club https://t.co/G3L5ZNw46t
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 23, 2023
Trump’s spokesman responded to the publication in the newspaper and said that “the former president takes pictures with countless people. This does not mean that he knows everyone he comes in contact with.” This, in light of the concerns among Trump’s loyalists, that the recent storms may influence the general public to vote for him if he is the Republican presidential candidate in 2024.
Marlino has previously made it clear that he is a fan of Trump, and the two were in touch in the 1990s for various reasons. This, while Trump owned a lot of real estate in New York, and owned two casinos in Atlantic City. At the same time, Marlino was the head of an organized crime organization that was active in Philadelphia and Atlantic City at the time. Marlino was convicted in 2001 in an extortion case and served a decade in federal prison. He recently claimed to have left the life of crime, and went to work as a manager at an Italian restaurant named after him. The restaurant recently closed, after he went to prison again in 2018, pleading guilty to gambling-related charges and serving time in 2020.
As you may remember, the former president caused a stir last November after he hosted the extreme rightist and holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, and the rapper Kanye West at his mansion in Mar-a-Lago.
Fuentes is an extreme American nationalist and holocaust denier who is known for his anti-Semitic statements. In the past, he compared burning Jews in the Holocaust to baking cookies in the oven. In addition, Fuentes took part in a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 where participants chanted “the Jews will not replace us”, and he was also present at Trump’s rally in Washington on January 6, 2021, which preceded the storming of Congress by his supporters in Washington.
After the meeting at Trump’s mansion, Kanye West posted a video on his Twitter account and claimed that “Trump was very impressed with Fuentes, who is actually quite loyal to him, unlike others who abandoned him after the 2020 election.” Also, a source familiar with the details of the meeting said Fuentes was a guest of Kenya and was not invited by the former president.
In addition, Trump acknowledged the meeting and said that “last week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Shortly thereafter, he showed up unexpectedly with three of his friends, whom I did not know and knew nothing about. I told West that he You definitely shouldn’t run for president and I told him that ‘all the voters you have should vote for me. We got along great and Kanye West didn’t express anti-Semitism at all.’