Rachel Hurley details the story from unsealed documents of Trump applying to build a casino in Australia in NSW in 1987. Australian authorities investigated and declined stating in no uncertain terms that Trump had clear and obvious ties to the mafia that were way too big to ignore. A pattern of money laundering at his casinos in the US, a pattern of Russian mobsters at his casinos, of the mob involvement in his construction projects. So they flatly rejected him. The documents are unsealed and are quite clear.
Trump was fined repeatedly in the US for money laundering at his casinos, in 2015 Taj Mahal paid a 10 million fine for it dating back to 2010-2012. And one year later he was the Republican nominee and got elected
We should have been more like Australia