Why ever not? They control the entire news media and he suffered zero consequences for it politically or legally. If Scalise and the rest of the Republican leadership had all died, nothing still would have happened.
The man could have said "wink wink" out loud and it could barely have been any different. That is exactly the goals of a mafia, to have such control that they can operate openly and in plain sight because they have infiltrated and corrupted so many institutions.
If it was the mafia he would have never said that publicly
Why ever not? They control the entire news media and he suffered zero consequences for it politically or legally. If Scalise and the rest of the Republican leadership had all died, nothing still would have happened.
The man could have said "wink wink" out loud and it could barely have been any different. That is exactly the goals of a mafia, to have such control that they can operate openly and in plain sight because they have infiltrated and corrupted so many institutions.