Commendators say @realDonaldTrump a mob boss for saying that, "it's called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal."
So I thought I'd make a thread of the Teflon Don John Gotti's actual quotations about rats so we can make a fair comparison based on his peer.
The New York Times
Dec. 2, 1986
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Newsday
Aug. 2, 1991
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Gotti now calls Gravano ''the chief rat.''
UPI
Feb. 17, 1992
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Chicago Tribune
Mar. 11, 1992
[I'll let you fill in the dashes]
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"I think everybody in the city's got rats near them," Mr. Gotti said to his future betrayer. "But we ain't got 'em near us, these rats."
The New York Times
Mar. 17, 1992
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"Rats like you don't challenge the Bushes."
Newsday
Jul. 3, 1999
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ABC News
Jun. 11, 2002
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