Valuetainment - October 20, 2026


“We Were PATRIOTS” - Sammy Gravano Explains the Mafia’s AMERICAN Identity

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Donald Trump Woodley Kennedy
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3 minutes

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Word count

589

Sentence count

47

Harmful content

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3

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6

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 With the Italian mob, like all the families, would you all consider yourself patriots? 1.00
00:00:05.020 Like, love America, assimilate, that's the greatest country in the world, 1.00
00:00:09.420 was that the mantra for Italian mob? 1.00
00:00:12.080 I think so, yeah. Yeah, I think so.
00:00:15.260 There was a lot, a lot of people I know, including myself, was in the military,
00:00:19.940 was willing to fight for the country.
00:00:22.620 A lot of guys. Guys were older than me back in World War II and stuff like that.
00:00:27.940 oh tons of guys my father was an immigrant he was a patriot he loved the country he loved the flag
00:00:34.500 he loved what he did um you know they were innocent people trying to make a living trying to
00:00:41.700 grow so yeah i i think the mafia is patriotic you know patriotic uh about things you know not to a
00:00:52.980 a tremendous degree
00:00:55.340 that they're going to go crazy fighting over it.
00:00:58.200 But, yeah, I think
00:00:59.300 in Woodley, they believe in
00:01:01.320 everything. The flag, you've seen them
00:01:02.840 with holidays and stuff like that.
00:01:05.460 They're good.
00:01:07.000 They care about the country. My father,
00:01:09.460 first thing I spoke was Italian.
00:01:11.740 I never even knew how to speak English 1.00
00:01:13.380 when I was a kid, because they were all 1.00
00:01:15.380 Italians.
00:01:16.880 They were all Italians, and that's all
00:01:19.220 I learned. My father had said,
00:01:21.280 We've got to stop doing this.
00:01:22.540 Look, he can't even speak English.
00:01:24.180 We came to this country.
00:01:25.760 We've got to believe their laws, their flag, their country, and their language.
00:01:30.320 And all my grandmothers and everybody started talking English more. 0.97
00:01:33.800 Every once in a while they'd talk Italian, but they did it
00:01:37.620 because they wanted to be part of this country.
00:01:41.340 You're not here to divide the country.
00:01:44.360 You're here to make it bigger and stronger and better. 0.99
00:01:47.660 And if you left from someplace that was fucked up, 0.98
00:01:50.020 This is more of a reason that you're going to come here and say, 0.98
00:01:53.240 I'm going to make this better.
00:01:54.360 I'm not going to make this.
00:01:55.740 It's not happening with everybody, though.
00:01:56.820 No, I know.
00:01:57.500 It doesn't happen with everybody because people have personal greed and selfishness.
00:02:04.400 But you have to understand that, you know, when people make a move,
00:02:09.460 like, let's say, Donald Trump, he makes a move.
00:02:12.760 He may benefit 80% of the people.
00:02:17.380 20% are going to suffer.
00:02:20.020 A little bit.
00:02:21.680 And they're going to be so loud and crazy about it.
00:02:25.180 And that's the way it is.
00:02:27.240 You can't fix everything.
00:02:28.960 You're always going to hurt somebody.
00:02:31.640 You do something one way, a lot of people are going to like it.
00:02:36.640 And a lot of people are not going to like it.
00:02:39.580 That's just the way it is.
00:02:41.240 Kennedy once said, don't ask what the country could do for you.
00:02:46.000 Ask what you could do for the country.
00:02:47.720 But people don't have that mentality.
00:02:51.920 They don't.
00:02:54.540 They're always worried about, what can it do for me?
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