49min video shows Trump’s 40-Year history with Organized Crime

A nearly 50-minute documentary circulating widely online argues that Donald Trump maintained a four-decade relationship with both organized crime figures and the FBI, positioning himself at times as a subject of interest, a business partner of informants, and later as a president who portrayed the bureau as his adversary.

The film, titled An American Affair: Trump & the FBI (2020) and directed by Fabrizio Calvi and David Carr-Brown, was produced by Pumpernickel Films and Allumage. A full version posted by the channel SLICE Full Doc has drawn millions of views under the title “Trump’s 40-Year Entanglement with the FBI and Organized Crime.” Its description states that Trump “has faced many accusations” involving “secret deals with the mafia” and Russian interference claims, while “he claims to be the victim of an FBI conspiracy,” and that “despite being implicated in well-documented suspect deals, he was never charged.”

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The documentary relies on interviews with former FBI officials and journalists, along with archival footage. Chapters move from early New York contacts through Atlantic City, Russian organized crime links, the role of Felix Sater, Michael Cohen, and the later Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the firing of FBI Director James Comey.

Former agent Myron Fuller describes being asked by the Miami office in the mid-1970s to interview Trump about a possible interest in the Fontainebleau hotel. Other segments feature Walter Stowe and discuss construction and casino environments in New York and New Jersey in the 1980s, periods when organized crime influence in those industries was extensively documented by law enforcement and the press. The film presents Rudy Giuliani’s earlier prosecutorial work against the Mafia as part of the same New York landscape in which Trump’s projects operated.

A central thread concerns Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who worked with the Trump Organization on projects including Trump SoHo. Court records unsealed in later years, reported by outlets including the Associated Press and CNN, confirm that Sater pleaded guilty in a 1990s stock-fraud scheme tied to organized crime and then spent roughly a decade as a confidential FBI informant, providing information used against La Cosa Nostra figures, financial fraudsters, and, according to prosecutors, on matters involving terrorism. The documentary treats Sater’s dual role—developer by day, informant by night—as emblematic of the overlapping worlds it examines. Sater later contacted Michael Cohen about a possible Trump Tower Moscow project that continued into the 2016 campaign before ending; that episode was reviewed in the Mueller investigation.

Later sections cover the FBI’s post-9/11 shift, allegations involving Russian organized crime, the opening of the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence inquiry, and Trump’s May 2017 dismissal of Comey. The film frames these events as the culmination of a long pattern in which Trump, according to its sources, navigated scrutiny without facing charges on the older business associations. Trump has consistently denied illegal ties to organized crime or to Russia and has described the Russia investigation and related actions by the FBI as a politically motivated conspiracy.

The documentary does not present new criminal charges. Public reporting over decades, including by The Wall Street Journal and the BBC, has noted that Trump’s Atlantic City casino and New York construction projects required dealings with figures who had organized-crime associations or were later identified as such—common in those industries at the time—while also recording that he was not prosecuted in connection with those relationships. The film’s producers describe their work as an examination, drawn from former bureau officials, of how those histories intersected with later intelligence investigations.