On 12/15/15, abdulah aga <abdulahhasic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi ListWell now, Abdulah, my great grandpa was a real scoundrel, and worse.
this is republican and rich men who want to bee president of USA,
men who 4 time make bankruptcy,
probably who should show to us how cheat system,
probably republican want to us to bee bank robber and system corruption.
That is way how we should bee rich men this is what republican like as
business men.
if you read this text is best way who is examples to americken and
republican and who suppose to be to us as business and how to bee rich.
Trump's grandfather was a pimp and tax evader; his father a member of the
KKK
As they say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; Donald Trump's racism
can easily be traced through his lineage.
Most families of enormous wealth have a dark and sometimes scandalous, even
monstrous past. Donald Trump's clan is no exception to that rule. His
grandfather was a pimp and a tax evader, his father a racist who would in
the course of his life, clash with New York City Police as a member of the
Ku Klux Klan and then as a wealthy real estate magnate, refuse to rent to
people of color.
Donald Trump's legacy is anything but a rags to riches story. His dad kicked
the bucket with $250-$300 million in the bank. The man who wants to ban all
people of a particular religion from travel, wasn't born with a silver spoon
in his mouth, his was white gold. The only thing more obnoxious than Donald
Trump himself, is his family's money grubbing, bigoted history.
Trump's Grandfather: Pimp and Tax Evader
Donald Trump's grandfather, Frederick or Frederich Trump, made his money
from operating a decadent restaurant and hotel during the Gold Rush at
Klondike in the Yukon.
That's a nice way of saying it.
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"Trump made his first fortune operating boom-town hotels, restaurants and
brothels", is more accurate, according to the CBC news report, "Donald
Trump's grandfather ran Canadian brothel during gold rush, author says".
Author Gwenda Blair simply wrote, ""The bulk of the cash flow came from the
sale of liquor and sex."
Trump's grandfather was born in Germany, to parents who were employed by a
vineyard. He moved to New York City in 1885 where he became a barber. After
six years of this, Frederick Trump moved across the United States to
Seattle, Washington, where he owned and operated what he referred to as a
"decadent restaurant" that was actually called "Poodle Dog" in Seattle's red
light district. Interestingly, the name and concept that had already been
established in San Francisco. (He named his restaurant after a dog but would
later make money selling horse meat) Around this time Frederick Trump became
a US citizen.
A Yukon Sun Newspaper writer described his business: "For single men the
Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in
Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as
they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings –
and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex".
Trump moved to Monte Cristo, Wash. in 1894, and then four years later,
shortly after the Klondike gold rush began, he relocated again to Bennett,
British Columbia. Here he ran the "Actic Restaurant and Hotel". He would
next build the "White Horse restaurant and Inn" in Whitehorse, Yukon.
An article published this year by Politico, explains that Frederick Trump
sold off his investments and returned to Germany in 1901, as he sensed the
end of the gold rush and a subsequent end to prostitution. The following
year, he married his former neighbor, Elizabeth Christ in his native German
town of Kallstadt. Then he came under heavy scrutiny by the German
government,
The country had compulsory military service for men which had to be
fulfilled by the age of 35. Donald Trump's grandfather waited until he was
35 to go back to Germany. He had already amassed great wealth worth well
more than half a million US dollars, or 80,000 marks. While his town
council was eager to keep Trump and his money, who billed himself as a man
who "avoided bars" and led "a quiet life", other German authorities had a
different plan, the Politico article explains. In their view, Trump had
relocated to Germany in order to avoid both tax and military-service
obligations.
"...the regional authorities refused to let Trump off the hook. Unlike his
grandson, who would become too big to fail in business and, more recently,
to ignore in politics, Friedrich Trump was not big enough to get away with
being a draft-dodger. He and his wife, then pregnant with Fred, Donald’s
father, would not be allowed to resume their German citizenship and it would
not be extended to their daughter; instead, they were deported—the same fate
that Donald would like to impose on undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
today."
The fact that Donald Trump has done so well in the Republican polls is quite
amazing, as the party that we think of as conservative, would be expected to
shun a man who created exploitative beauty pageants and was born rich
strictly because of the nefarious activities of his ancestors.
Trump's Father: a Lifetime of Racist Practices
Donald Trump has often said he made his money "the old-fashioned way," and
this is true, in that he prospered from racism.
A New York Times article published 01 June 1927, related Donald Trump's
father Fred Trump's role in a Ku Klux Klan brawl that pitted 1,000 klansmen
against 100 New York City Police in Queens. Though he wasn't officially
charged, Fred Trump was one of seven klansmen arrested during the incident.
It probably wasn't very shocking at the time as America's racist practices
were in full swing generations after Abe Lincoln freed the country's
African-American slaves. In fact the mid-20's saw a peak in KKK activity.
Donald Trump would later deny his father's involvement in the KKK brawl in
spite of the fact that it happened two decades before he was born. Fred
Trump's enthusiasm for racist practices never changed until he was forced to
do so by the law.
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump joined his father's real estate company
in New York in 1971, and only two years later, the company was served with a
civil rights lawsuit that was filed against the Trump organization because
it refused to rent to Black people. The Urban League got wind of the racist
rental policy and actually sent both Black and White people in to apply for
apartments that belonged to complexes owned by the Trumps. What they
proved, was that Black people were denied rentals across the board, and only
Whites were approved. A Village Voice article by Wayne Barrett, published
in 1979, blew the lid off the Trump organization's brewing pot of racist
practices.
"Three doormen were told to discourage blacks who came seeking apartments
when the manager was out, either by claiming no vacancies or hiking up the
rents. A super said he was instructed to send black applicants to the
central office but to accept white applications on site. Another rental
agent said that Fred Trump had instructed him not to rent to blacks.
Further, the agent said Trump wanted 'to decrease the number of black
tenants' already in the development 'by encouraging them to locate housing
The article explains that Trump's reaction was to claim that the suit was a,
"nationwide drive to force owners of moderate and luxury apartments to rent
to welfare recipients."
"'We are not going to be forced by anyone to put people...in our buildings
to the detriment of tenants who have, for many years, lived in these
buildings, raised families in them, and who plan to continue to live there.
That would be reverse discrimination,' he said. 'The government is not going
to experiment with our buildings to the detriment of ourselves and the
thousands who live in them now.'"
Indeed, Trump's wild, largely uninformed and unintelligent rants are the
legacy of men who walked over the backs of other Americans to gain and
secure their wealth. This may be symbolic to the American capitalist way,
but it falls short of any form of greatness or real human success. As they
say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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