An American Affair: Trump and the FBI
A look at Donald Trump's run-in's with the FBI since the nineteen-seventies.
Top billed cast
- Myron R. FullerSelf
- Michael IsikoffSelf
- Ronald FinoSelf
- Jeff SteinSelf
- Walter StoweSelf
- Michael GermanSelf
Donald TrumpSelf (archive footage)- James KallstromSelf
Rudolph GiulianiSelf (archive footage)
Craig UngerSelf
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