President Trump’s tough stance gained him an unexpected mega-fan — murderous gangland boss Whitey Bulger.
“History may show Trump was the man of the hour,” the notorious villain wrote in letters from jail before his violent death aged 89 last October, according to NBC News.
The notorious gangster — convicted on racketeering charges in a string of murders in the 1970s and ’80s, as well as extortion, money-laundering and weapons charges — wrote repeatedly of his admiration for the president, according to handwritten letters obtained by NBC.
And Bulger, who terrorized Boston as leader of the brutal Winter Hill Gang, made no secret of why he so admired the president.
“Trump is tough and fights back instead of bowing down to pressure — and caving in to press!” he wrote in August 2018, according to the letters sent to Janet Uhlar, one of his jurors in his 2013 federal trial.
“U.S. agrees with him press attacking and his reaction increases his popularity — He has my vote so far.”
In another letter that same month he insisted, “Feel China respects him and hesitant to try to bully him.”
His admiration sparked disdain for critics of the White House, most notably then-special counsel Robert Mueller, who had also been US attorney in Boston when Bulger’s gang was active.
“Sorry to hear Trump is being boxed in by so many,” Bulger wrote last August.
“Trump is experiencing what Mueller and company can orchestrate,” Bulger said in a different letter from September. “[Mueller] should observe biblical saying – ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.'”
He even reportedly ended one letter sent a month before his death, “Wonder if Mueller thinks of me? Give my regards to the President!”
His loyalty meant other letter writers angered the crime boss if they criticized the president.
“I get some strange mail at times — a grandmother from Kansas — hates Trump wants him ‘impeached,'” Bulger wrote in one letter. “She assumes I hate him? Why Because I’m in prison?”
Writing that the “media is a bigger problem than Trump” — claiming its hunger for scoops had “cost the lives of U.S. servicemen” — he was a proud supporter of Trump loyalists.
“Trump is fortunate to have loyalty of [conservative commentator Bill Cunningham], Rush Limbaugh + Hannity AKA ‘Little Rush,'” Bulger said in one letter.
He even defended the president on allegations over his love life.
“My bet is he’s happy with present wife and settled down,” Bulger wrote in one letter, according to NBC.
“No way would he wind up in Oval Office with a Monica Lewinsky — That was a scandal! Same media that attacks Trump would cover up for Bill Clinton.”