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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,777 posts)
6. Funny, but it was too over the top to have been real.
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 09:37 PM
Jul 2018

There are still a number of Trump relatives in Germany (where the name is pronounced "Droomp," which I like) who really are kind of embarrassed. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/world/europe/trump-germany-family-ancestry-kallstadt.html

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,777 posts)
4. Sort of like how you can't find anybody named Hitler any more -
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 09:34 PM
Jul 2018

the last known Hitler died in 1987, and other relatives changed their names. Germans don't often name their kids Adolf, either. I wonder if the name Donald will eventually become extinct in the U.S.?

no_hypocrisy

(46,138 posts)
7. Not true, but I'll bet Trump's brother Bob and sister, Marianne have some good stories
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 09:38 PM
Jul 2018

about their sibling at family dinners.

no_hypocrisy

(46,138 posts)
9. Their silence is deafening. But OTOH
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 09:49 PM
Jul 2018

they watched while Donald persecuted his older brother until he died. And watched what Donald did to destroy his brother's grandson during the Will Contest.

dflprincess

(28,080 posts)
15. Trump was so spiteful he cut Fred, Jr.'s disable grandson off the medical insurance he had
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 11:21 PM
Jul 2018

through Fred Sr'.s company.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-sick-infant-medical-care/


Donald Trump likes to get his way, and he’s not above cutting off a sick infant’s health coverage to make it happen.

The story begins after the death of Trump’s father, Fred Sr., in 1999. As David Cay Johnston explains in his book The Making of Donald Trump, Fred Sr. had written a will after the death of his oldest son, Fred Jr., known as Freddy, in 1981. The will left the majority of Fred Sr.’s wealth to Donald and his surviving siblings. Freddy’s family was largely cut out.

When Fred Sr. died, Freddy’s children sued, claiming that the will “had been ‘procured by fraud and undue influence’ by Donald and the other surviving siblings,” according to Johnston.

Johnston writes that medical insurance had consistently been provided to the family through Fred Sr.’s company. This coverage was crucial for Freddy’s grandson (Donald’s grandnephew), who suffered from seizures and later developed cerebral palsy. So crucial, in fact, that a letter sent from a Trump lawyer to the insurer after the patriarch’s death in 1999 said that “all costs” for the sick child’s care should be covered, regardless of caps on the plan or medical necessity, according to Johnston. That didn’t last long.

A week after the lawsuit was filed in court, Freddy’s son (Donald’s nephew) received a letter informing him that the health insurance would be discontinued, meaning his ill son would be left without coverage. Donald openly admitted to the New York Daily News that he and his siblings took this action out of revenge.

George II

(67,782 posts)
13. One of trump's sisters is a Federal judge in Philadelphia. She had a few rulings against......
Tue Jul 3, 2018, 11:02 PM
Jul 2018

.....Atlantic City casinos over the years. Let's hope she's part of the reason his casinos went belly-up.

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