The film "Chappaquiddick" distorts a tragedy

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28. Someone should do a movie about Trump's grandfather

Left Bavaria to avoid his military service. After living with his brother and working as a barber for a while he moved to the Northwest. He made his fortune operating boom-town restaurants and boarding houses in Seattle and the mining town Monte Cristo, and in the Klondike Gold Rush.

In 1891, Trump moved to Seattle, in the newly admitted U.S. state of Washington. With his life savings of several hundred dollars, he bought the Poodle Dog, which he renamed the Dairy Restaurant, and supplied it with new tables, chairs, and a range.[2] Located at 208 Washington Street, the Dairy Restaurant was in the middle of Seattle’s Red Light District; Washington Street was nicknamed "the Line" and included an assortment of saloons, casinos, and brothels. Blair, the biographer, called it "a hotbed of sex, booze, and money, [it] was the indisputable center of the action in Seattle."[3]:41 The restaurant served food and liquor and was advertised to include "Rooms for Ladies", a common euphemism for prostitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump#Immigration_to_the_United_States

The Arctic House was one of the largest and most extravagant restaurants in that region of the Klondike, offering fresh fruit and ptarmigan in addition to the staple of horsemeat.[10] The Arctic was open 24 hours a day and advertised "Rooms for ladies", which included beds and scales for measuring gold dust. The local Canadian Mounties were known to tolerate vice so long as it was conducted discreetly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump#Role_in_Yukon_gold_rush

Since he continued that business model in Mote Cristo and the Klondike, a good argument is that Frederick Trump ran brothels.

He then returned to Germany, married a woman much younger than himself and returned to New York. After a few years his wife wanted to return to Germany so they did in 1896 but Frederick was deported because of his avoidance of military service as a young man.

During his later years in New York he continued to operate hotels - I wonder if his pattern of running brothels continued in the big city? If so that could be when the family's connection to the Mob began.

I think it would make a good movie, showing the origin of the ruthlessness and immorality that continues in the Trump family today.