Directed by Sam Hobkinson, Donald Trump to the New York City mafia but doesn't explore the full story. Overall, the Netflix docies mostly centers on the FBI's efforts to systematically take down the leaders of New York's five crime families, otherwise known as The Commission, by utilizing the RICO Act. The U.S. Federal law was designed to combat organized crime though mass-racketeering charges. Fear City released in July 2020.
Fear City's third and final episode, "Judgment Day," documents the mob's role in Manhattan business deals. During the early '80s, the President Donald Trump, a real estate mogul.
Trump has never denied his mafia ties. In fact, he's itted to meeting mobsters "on occasion" and told radio personality Howard Stern that his mafia associates are "very nice people." After watching Fear City, however, Netflix streamers may wonder about the extent of Trump's mob ties, and whether they have anything to do with his financial success.
In the early '70s, Trump inherited his father's company and re-named it The Trump Organization. By 1980, Trump was a relevant cultural figure in Manhattan upon renovating a hotel that is now the Grand Hyatt New York near Grand Central Station. At the same time, Trump began developing a skyscraper that would become The Trump Tower. As Esquire recently reported, Trump's friend and mentor Roy Cohn was a defense lawyer for several high-profile New York mobsters, many of whom are referenced in Fear City on Netflix.
According to biographer New York mafia. He even reportedly had a face-to-face meeting with Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, who ran the Genovese crime family during the early '80s until he was convicted on RICO charges in the 1986 Mafia Commission trial.
In 2019, Donald Trump's well-documented mafia connections.