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United States President Donald Trump has claimed that he has been investigated more than Al Capone and anyone else in the history of the country.
Trump made the statement during a Sunday interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker.
The US leader, however, asserted that he had prevailed in all investigations against him.
“I’ve been investigated more than any person in the history of the United States of America,” Trump said.
“I’ve been investigated more than Al Capone, more than anybody and I won.”
Capone was an American gangster and businessman who rose to infamy during the Prohibition Era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.
His seven-year reign as a crime boss ended when he was imprisoned at the age of 33.
Born in New York City in 1899 to Italian immigrants, Capone joined the Five Points Gang as a teenager.
He later moved to Chicago in his early twenties and became a bodyguard to Johnny Torrio, the head of a criminal syndicate involved in the illegal alcohol trade.
Capone died of cardiac arrest following a stroke in 1947.
In other news, The administration of US President Donald Trump on Monday hailed the early results of his immigration crackdown, despite mounting concerns over due process.
The administration displayed photographs of alleged criminal offenders on the White House lawn and prepared to target cities and states that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
According to the White House, the Republican president plans to sign an executive order directing senior officials to identify, within a month, the cities and states failing to comply with federal immigration laws sufficiently.
