Gathering of the Clan: The Trump Criminal Enterprise at the RNC

Image by Kelly Sikkema.

The Criminals

Former FBI director James Comey once compared Donald Trump’s gang of loyalists to the Mafia. “Holy crap, they are trying to make each of us an amica nostra—friend of ours. To draw us in.”

And draw in people Trump did: cabinet members and other officials, campaign workers, lawyers, talking heads at Fox. The very apt comparison with gangster politics played itself out once again at the Republican National Convention.

The cast of characters...