Donald Trump's Dad Arrested in KKK Brawl with Cops [View all]

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In an article subtitled "Klan assails policeman", Fred Trump is named in among those taken in during a late May "battle" in which "1,000 Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a free-for-all." At least two officers were hurt during the event, after which the Klan's activities were denounced by the city's Police Commissioner, Joseph A. Warren.
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If the man arrested at the riotous Klan parade was indeed Donald's father, it would not be his last tangle with the law over issues concerning minorities. A 1979 article, published by Village Voice, reported on a civil rights suit that alleged that the Trumps refused to rent to black home-seekers, and quotes a rental agent who said Fred Trump instructed him not to rent to blacks and to encourage existing black tenants to leave. The case was settled in a 1975 consent degree described as "one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated," but the Justice Department subsequently complained that continuing "racially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity."

Donald Trump has made nativism a pillar of his campaign, describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and two Boston men who beat a homeless immigrant as "passionate" fans.

The events described in the Times' article took place 22 years before Donald Trump was even born, and he’s not responsible for any youthful sins his father may have committed. But given the racially-charged tone of the younger Trump's campaign, it raises questions about the values he was taught by the man whose fortune he inherited.

http://boingboing.net/2015/09/09/1927-news-report-donald-trump.html

(Wow they are careful in that article not to say things in a way they can be sued for! )

After this story broke, The Donald confirms and denies it:

After records surfaced that Donald Trump’s father had been arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally, the republican frontrunner has begun attempting to do damage control to minimize the incident. Suffice it to say that those efforts are going about as well as expected based on the brusque nature of his campaign for President to date. Today, Trump tried to explain away the incident by first claiming that his father was never at the rally, and then – in the same sentence – claiming that the arrest didn’t matter because no charges were filed.
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First he denied that his father had ever lived on the street listed in the newspaper report, then he denied his father was arrested. “There were zero charges against him. So assuming it was him — I don’t even think it was him, I never even heard about it. So it’s really not fair to mention. It never happened.” Trump’s responses were so surreal that the Times interviewer was prompted to refer to it as “pasta against the wall.”

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/donald-trump-says-his-fathers-arrest-at-a-kkk-rally-doesnt-count-because-he-wasnt-charged/22526/