Many of the controversial events in Donald Trump’s life
occurred previously in previous generations of what was once the Drumpf family.
In no particular order, the question of draft-dodging. To avoid
military service, a grandparent immigrated to the U.S., made a fair amount of
money and returned to his native Kallstatd.
According to the newly released book, “The Making of Donald
Trump” by Pulitzer Prize winning writer David Cay Johnston, local officials
were not impressed by his fortune and told him to leave. He returned to the
U.S.
Johnston has followed Trump’s career for decades.
It has been widely reported that Trump himself avoided the
draft, even after college, because he had bone spurs. It is a minor problem
that often does not require treatment. It didn’t stop Trump from being an
athlete in college. Later, he claimed he escape Vietnam because he had a high
draft lottery number.
As to the claim that his wife, Melania, entered the U.S. on
a tourist visa in 1995 and worked as a model, there also is a precedent.
Greatgrandfather Friedrich Trump lied about his age and
claimed he had arrived in America two years before he had to qualify become a
citizen, according to Johnson.
Then there are claims he has support of white supremacists
such as the Ku Klux Klan. Its leaders have endorsed him.
“Boing Boing dug up an
old New York Times article from May of 1927 that
listed a Fred Trump among those arrested at a Klan rally in Jamaica, Queens,
when "1,000 Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a free-for-all," in the
streets. Donald Trump's father would have been 21 in 1927 and had spent most of his
life in Queens,” Vice reported.
The book reports Trump had been investigated on many
occasions, and managed to escape going to jail. He also was associated with
crime families, and found to have denied apartmental rentals to blacks.
The Hillary Clinton campaign must be feeling a grand case of
schadenfreude as it watches its polls rise and Trump’s plummet.
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