“What a strange list of guests to have,” Bet-David said as two new panelists entered the conversation. Former Mafia members Michael Franzese and Sammy “The Bull” Gravano were on hand to offer their support for Trump.
“This is what America wants,” Bet-David went on, in a refrain he made throughout the night. “Not people who went to Columbia or Yale.”
Franzese and Gravano have each become YouTube personalities in recent years, regaling viewers with mob stories and lessons. (Franzese uploaded an interview with Andrew Tate on Tuesday.) Trump, their experience taught them, was what they needed.
“It’s not revenge,” Franzese said, pondering a second term for the Republican candidate. “It’s justice.”
Abortion, Gravano said, wasn’t the issue the media had made it out to be, because women had plenty of choice as it was: “They’re all over the place in everything. As they should be.”
The pair were briefly interrupted by a video call from Chris Cuomo, who was beamed onto the stage’s screen to offer Bet-David his congratulations on the event. Franzese summed it up for the crowd by explaining how his cohort had come to embrace a candidate who, along with his running mate, holds an Ivy League degree. Everyone “from the streets” is behind Trump, he said, because “he’s the best good gangster we’ve seen in our lives.”