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Frederick Christ Trump Sr.
(October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999)
Was a prominent American real estate developer in New York City.
Sound
a little familiar?
(He was the father of Donald)
In partnership with his mother, Elizabeth Christ
Trump, Fred began a career in home construction and sales. Their real estate
development company was incorporated as
E. Trump & Son in 1927
(Later called the Fred Trump Organization).
It grew to build and manage single-family houses in Queens,
barracks and garden apartments for U.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards along the East Coast, and more than 27,000 apartments in New York City.
Trump was investigated by a U.S. Senate committee for profiteering in 1954, and again by the State of New York in 1966.
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a little familiar?
Donald became the president of his father's real estate business
in 1971, and they were sued by the U.S.
Justice Department's Civil Rights Division for
violating the Fair Housing Act in 1973.
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a little familiar?
In later years, Fred conducted
to benefit Donald,
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a little familiar?
And
suffered from
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a little familiar?
alzheimer's
disease definition - Bing
In 1997, when his worth exceeded a billion dollars, he transferred the
majority of his buildings to his surviving children, who sold them in 2004 for
over 16 times their previously declared worth, effectively dodging hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.
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a little familiar?
Fred
Trump, who had obfuscated his German ancestry to avoid upsetting Jewish friends
and clients.
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a little familiar?
How Trump’s
Grandparents Became Reluctant Americans - HISTORY
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1927 arrest
Ku Klux Klan members being confronted by police in Queens on
Memorial Day 1927
On Memorial Day in 1927, over a thousand Ku Klux Klan members marched in a Queens parade to protest "Native-born Protestant Americans" being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City".[20]
The 21-year old Trump and six other men were arrested.
All seven were referred to as "berobed marchers" in the Long Island Daily Press;
Trump, detained "on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so", was dismissed.
Another of the men, arrested on the same charge, was a bystander who had had his foot run over by a police car. According to the police, the five remaining men were certainly Klan members.
Multiple newspaper articles on the incident list Trump's address (in Jamaica, Queens), which he is recorded as sharing with his mother in the 1930 census and a 1936 wedding announcement.
In September 2015, Boing Boing reproduced the article,
and Fred's son Donald Trump, then a candidate for president of the United States, told The New York Times, "that's where my grandmother lived and my father, early on."
Then, when asked about the 1927 story, he denied that his father had ever lived at that address, and said the arrest "never happened", and, "There was nobody charged."
But for decades, Trump denied this German heritage altogether, instead claiming that his grandfather’s roots lay further north, in Scandinavia. “[He] came here from Sweden as a child,” Trump asserted in his co-written book The Art of the Deal. In fact, his cousin and family historian John Walter told The New York Times,
Trump maintained
the ruse
at the request of
his own realtor father!
Sound
a little familiar?
The
Trump Family's Immigrant Story
For decades,
they denied their German roots,
claiming to be of
Scandinavian origin.
MAR
7, 2019 ORIGINAL: JUL 13, 2018
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