To understand who & what Fred was, one can start with his father. Trace him through the White Hand gangs of NYC early ghettos - to Canadian liquor & whores - & back to NYC, in the era & territory of Genovese capo, Lucky Luciano.
I did that, here: https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/1003706178805760000?s=20
OR... /1 https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/1182794338733940737

2/ We can just study the rise of his real estate empire in Brooklyn - in the Brighton Beach area that was Genovese-controlled.
We're going to focus on the key pieces of that empire: SHORE HAVEN, BEACH HAVEN, TRUMP VILLAGE, HRH CONSTRUCTION, and the RUSSIAN MOB.

3/ Okay... as we get into this, I want to share something an NSA guy once told me (don't go crazy. just a friend): "Look for the negative space. That's where the answers are."
In layman's terms, this means gather all the known data points - all the evidence - on your target...

4/...assemble them, and look at what's not there - when they're all connected. Look for the negative space that forms in the center of all the information. That's the truth to follow.
To visualize this, imagine coming onto a cartoon scene, where there's a hole in the wall...

5/...that hole is the exact shape of Wylie Coyote. Now, Wylie's not there. G*d only knows where he is. But you can see the negative space is him, b/c everything left around it forms that clear outline.
Our cartoon hole is Fred Trump, the businessman front for the underworld...

6/... as defined by everything around him. The Genovese Crime Family. https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/891360061993263104?s=20

7/ Data Point 1: Shore Haven. 1947.
Fred is able to start construction on his first, major real estate development in Brooklyn - Bensonhurst Park. And somehow, some way, men were secretly helping him buy up all the land - much of it suddenly for sale. https://bklyner.com/10-most-ruthless-mobsters-from-bensonhurst-bensonhurst/

8/ In article, zero in on Carlos Gambino. Although the godfather of another Cosa Nostra family, he started on Luciano's crew. In the years leading up to Fred breaking ground, Gambino still answered to Luciano - and those men controlled the city officials who green lit Fred.

9/ Data Point 2: Beach Haven.
Fred's second big development (he made a small fortune on Shore Haven). And after doing the bulk of his individual home building and Shore Haven alone, he takes on a partner.
WILLIE TOMASELLO. A local brick contractor, who advanced 1/2 a million...

10/...for 25% - before the FHA loans.
(side note: should not be an "s" at end of Carlo Gambino's name above.)
Okay... so Tomasello comes with a measly 1/2 million, & the FHA loans are on the way. Why take his $ & give 25% away? It was worth way more than $1.5million pre-funding.

11/ Unlike donald, Fred was shrewd & successful. Makes no sense. Until you know this... (source: Wayne Barrett's "Trump")

12/ Data Point 3: Trump Village & HRH Construction
Okay, this one is SUPER messy politically. Every mobbed-up lawyer, mayor, commissioner, union is in this deal. Too many "families", & too much dirt to map in a thread.
Just know it was impossible that Fred pulled this off, AND...

13/...for the first time, Fred turned construction over to a bigger company: HRH Construction.
You remember. These guys . https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/1049409623956975616?s=20

14/ Data Point 5 - Infinity: The Russian Mob.
Robert Friedman gives a long, detailed account on how the Russian Mafia rolled onto our shores, and landed right in all of Fred Trump's properties in the 70's & early 80's (before the next wave of capos landed in donald's).

15/ Data Point Infinity: The Russian Mob.
What does the Russian mafia have to do with the Genovese?
This. And this. And this... and on, and on, and on...

16/ In the 80s-90s, Soviet-born mafiosos rolled up the Genovese, and took all their assets along with 'em.
I can't say it enough. https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/1021760224938450944?s=20

17/ Data Point Infinity: Brad Zackson & Semion Mogilevich (& Firtash & Manafort, oh my...)
https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/manafort-complaint-2.pdf

18/ So... let's take those new data points, combine them with the old data points on Fred and Manafort and Genovese capo, "Midge"... and I believe we have our negative space. Defined.
FRED TRUMP WAS THE BUSINESS FRONT FOR THE GENOVESE CRIME FAMILY.
And then the Russian mob.

19/ Oh, there's so much more. So, so much... like Luciano's partner, Meyer Lansky, The Sand's Casino, and Resorts International. We'll get to it all soon enough. Rest assured, those two original gangsters, who created organized crime, were Fred Trump's overlords...

20/ I'm gonna go back to my tequila & good company. This has been an interesting ride… being a voice of mob history on the Twitters. Probably the weirdest part has been the hot takes from political pundits on donald’s “mob-isms” – as if it’s some personality quirk...

21/...or a trait attributed only to Roy Cohn (good grief, I didn't even data point Roy Cohn, Genovese fixer). As I’ve said often, it’s not a joke. Or a quirk. Or something to be eye-rolled or danced around.

donald Trump is an actual mobster.
He was born into the underworld.

22/ This is a very specific thing. Not to be confused or collapsed with all the other slimy NYC builders & con men, who do business with shady characters. No.
He is actually FROM the underworld.
Born into it – from WAY down in its depths.
I can see the afterbirth of mob scum...

23/... still dripping from his fleshy neck. That’s how deep he is buried…
Because he was spawned by FRED TRUMP.
And the mobsters who owned Fred created the underworld itself.
G'night.