As he squeezes concessions, cash and even part government ownership from some of America’s most prominent entities, President Donald Trump is channeling a deceased union thug to whom he himself often bent a knee.

Trump was 33 in 1979, when John Cody, the mob-linked president of Local 282 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, called for a citywide strike in New York. The lone job site that remained open was that of Trump Tower. And whatever Cody may have received in return, a beautiful Texas divorcee with whom he was very fond ended up with two triplex apartments directly below Trump’s penthouse.

The divorcee was Austrian-born Verina Hixon. Cody stayed in her new residence often enough to have qualified as Trump’s downstairs neighbor. Cody informed Trump that Hixon wanted a swim

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