Days after shouting out reputed Gambino crime family underboss Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, former President Donald Trump saluted “the late great gangster” Al Capone.

Speaking at a rally in Indianola, IA on Sunday, the former president lamented his legal plight by comparing it to that of the early-20th century Chicago kingpin.

“I got indicted more than the late, great gangster Alphonse Capone,” Trump said. “Scarface.”

Trump then launched into a hypothetical involving legendary wrestler Dan Gable, who was at the rally.

“If [Capone] went to dinner, even with a guy like Dan Gable — you don’t get tougher than Dan Gable … But if he went to work and had dinner and didn’t like Dan Gable, by the morning, Dan Gable was gone. Forget it. Al Capone.”

Capone is one of the most notorious criminal figures in U.S. history. Historians estimate that he was either directly or indirectly involved in more than 200 murders — although tax evasion was ultimately the crime that put him away in 1931.

And the man known as “Scarface” is not the only mafia figure Trump has saluted in recent days. On his Truth Social platform Saturday, Trump shared a video in which Sammy “The Bull” called Trump “incorruptible.”

“Thank you to Sammy the Bull,” Trump wrote.

Watch above, via CSPAN.

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