story about the video showing the two of them side by side ringside at wrestlemania in 1988, sitting, bob la buddy sitting with donald and ivana trump, his daughter edie made it quite clear this wasn t by happenstance. he and edie were the invited guests of donald trump, she told me. so all that sort of when you put it all together, it s pretty clear there s a relationship there. and on top of that, it s worth remembering bob la buddy was a whale. he was the biggest customer at the trump plaza casino, gambled millions of dollars. and he also caused the casino quite a bit of problems. you know, david, you report you ve reported for years about this sort of element of trump s life, and the degree to which there were extensive
their presence upset him and rather than denying that request or kicking bob la buddy out of the casino, they accommodated him. let s be clear. this was not an allegation. this was a find big the regulatory body that fined him for it. chris, it s a little different than the way michael put it, just to be clear. la buddy certainly used the most vicious, vile language. and everybody around him when he was losing at the table. but bob la buddy was incensed at the notion he wanted any of these people removed. it s awful he thought they had to listen to this stuff. but he told me what kind of a person would remove these people because of what i said? i didn t ask them to be removed. trump is a rayes. that seems like a distinction without a difference. the fact of the matter you can t be that s the reason they were fined because the hotel did remove them. that s it exactly. he did remove them. adding one more point, there is no indication trump was ever questioned as part of th
pretty much consistently the same language. i wouldn t know him if he walked into t room. it s what he said about bob la buddy. it s what he told what he said about felix sater, the russian emigre organized crime guy convicted felon who worked for the trump organization. there is that pattern, as well as many of the women who have made accusations against him. just sort of flippant i don t know him. i don t know who you re talking about. but secondly, just getting back to the core issues in the when i said before, la buddy had caused problems for trump plaza. one of those was the case involving discrimination, violation of new jersey civil rights laws where the casino was accommodating a guy who demanded that african americans and women be removed from the crap tables when he was betting because
is meet with donald trump and have 500 paparazzi taking pictures. the answer is no. joining me now, michael isikoff for yahoo news and david cay johnston, author of the making of donald trump. this is a fascinating report. there are a few things going on. one is the denial, i wouldn t know the guy from adam, which seems pretty implausible once you report all the reading and look at the photo. not only that, but i did talk to robert la buddy s daughter for the original piece we did back in march. and she was quite upset, called donald trump a liar when i told her that he was saying that he didn t know her father. she said that s ridiculous. we spent lots of times together. my father did. flew on his helicopter, partied on his yacht. they knew each other quite well. so, and when we got to this