Trump called the mafia 'very nice people,' but warned you 'don't want to owe them money' in a 2013 interview

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• Donald Trump called the mafia "very nice people" in a 2013 interview with David Letterman, three years before his electoral victory to become president of the United States.
• Trump said that he tried to stay away from organized crime "as much as possible" when asked about his business dealings, but said that "I have met on occasion a few of those people."
• The interview was unearthed in light of Trump's dealings with Ukraine, which led House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff to accuse him of doing a "classic, mafia-like shakedown."
• Trump has been accused of having ties to organized crime, but has always denied it.
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President Donald Trump said that the mafia "happen to be very nice people" in a 2013 interview — but joked that he would never want to owe them money.

In an October 2013 episode of "Late Show with David Letterman," Letterman asked Trump — who had been accused of working with crime families — if he had ever "knowingly done business with organized crime."

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