# The mob vote for Trump

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*John Kiriakou's answer to a viewer asking whether he discussed politics with organised crime figures in prison: that he did, a great deal, that they love Donald Trump without qualification, and that the reason is a New York real estate developer's unavoidable daily contact with the unions the mob controls.*

- **Where the conversations happened:** In prison, and since
- **Recent occasion:** Dinner with two of them in Philadelphia
- **Their politics:** Love Donald Trump
- **Kiriakou's explanation:** Daily contact with a New York real estate developer
- **Unions he names:** Concrete, window-making, steelworkers

**The mob vote for Trump** is John Kiriakou's answer to a viewer who asked, in November 2025, whether he had discussed politics with the organised crime figures he served time alongside, and what their politics were.[1]

## The relationships

His answer opened with the fact that the acquaintances did not end at the prison gate: *"A lot. I I had dinner with two with two of them in uh in Philadelphia over the weekend."*[1]

## The politics

On their view of [Donald Trump](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/donald-trump) he was emphatic and repetitive: *"They love love love Donald Trump. They love him."*[1]

## The explanation

What interests Kiriakou is the reason, which he treats as occupational rather than ideological. Being a real estate developer in New York of all places, he says, means daily contact with the mob, because *"They control everything."*[1][2]

He then itemised what *everything* means in the building trade: the concrete union, the union that makes windows, the steelworkers union. And the conclusion: *"you've got to deal with these people if you want to build buildings."*[2]

Rall's inference, that this is why Trump had those connections, and that he had to, drew Kiriakou's agreement twice over: *"Yeah. Exactly. Exactly."* His closing summary was that they love Trump and there are no two ways about it.[2]

## Why it matters to him

The observation belongs to a body of material Kiriakou has produced about the people he met at [Loretto](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/fci-loretto), for whom his consistent method is to report what they think and why, rather than to treat their opinions as disqualified by their convictions.

## See also

- [FCI Loretto](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/fci-loretto)
- [Donald Trump](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/donald-trump)
- [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)

## Sources

1. Trump Snubs US Workers at Mar-a-Lago (2025-11-13), at 31:46. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICmAUQl5FXA&t=1906s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-13-deprogram-ted-rall-trump-snubs-us-workers-at-mar-a-lago/
2. Trump Snubs US Workers at Mar-a-Lago (2025-11-13), at 32:19. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICmAUQl5FXA&t=1939s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-13-deprogram-ted-rall-trump-snubs-us-workers-at-mar-a-lago/

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