Reminder: Trump's grandfather was a pimp and tax evader; his father a member of the KKK

[mfcorey1]

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 rag 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 Friedrich Trump, made his money from operating a decadent restaurant and hotel during the Gold Rush at Klondike in the Yukon.

"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".

https://ahtribune.com/us/2016-election/242-trump-grandfather-pimp-father-kkk.html

[bigbrother05]

1. And all avoided the draft

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Yeah, that needed more presence. nt

[brewens]

2. I'd say a lot of men would like to see their boy become a chip off the ol' block. I'd also say

especially conservative men. If you're successful and that happens, most guys would be proud. If we call Trump a racist, we get total poutrage from the right. Just knowing his dad was KKK would be reason enough to suspect he was a racist too, even if we didn't have all kinds of stuff backing it up.