As a man who ordered the murder of at least 19 people and spent more than two decades running one of America’s most deadly crime gangs, James “Whitey” Bulger is not someone most politicians would want an endorsement from.But the notoriously ruthless Boston crime lord was, it seems, a big supporter of Donald Trump.The gangster – who was murdered, aged 89, in prison last year – praised the US president in a series of letters written from his cell.He called the entrepreneur-turned-commander-in-chief a “man of the hour”, and said he admired how he was “tough and fights back instead of bowing” to critics.“He has,” Bulger wrote, “my vote so far”.He meant it metaphorically: in Oklahoma where he served much of his life sentence, prisoners are not on the electoral roll.The letters of praise came to light after their recipient, a nurse from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, named Janet Uhlar, passed them to America’s NBC News in an apparent bid to show a different side to the infamous gangster.In one of ...