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David

David Report 4 Mar 2017 19:31


DT is now saying Trump Towers telephones were tapped during his campaign.

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David

David Report 3 Mar 2017 19:51


Seems his past is as speculative as Obama's birth certificate ;-)

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 3 Mar 2017 19:33

She did .............

.......... she was born near Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides, but left there in 1930 to emigrate to New York, with the stated intention of being a Domestic Servant. She was youngest of 10 children, and a sister had earlier emigrated to the US.

DT prefers to say she arrived in the US "on holiday", but the immigration documents say differently.

Someone who has done her family tree says she got work as a nanny, lost when the family lost money in the Depression, she then returned to Scotland in 1934, but had already met Fred Trump (Donald's father) and returned to NY to marry him, although she often went back to see family. She became a US citizen in 1942 and died in 2000.


Seemingly Donald's sister has been back to visit Lewis many times ..... he has been back just once, and spent only a few minutes with his cousins.

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

David

David Report 3 Mar 2017 18:56


A seriously large amount of money for sure, but if it was acquired from an activity that evades taxes, it could be more, could be less.

I may be reading duff information, who's to know, but I read DT's Mother left Scotland.

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 3 Mar 2017 17:42

David, you are quite right of course!

Friedrich's money bought him a trip back to Germany to get a wife, and then back to NY where he started what became the family business of development, building and getting money from other people.

I read somewhere that he left the Yukon with US$500,000 .............. I wonder how much that would be worth now?????????????

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Allan

Allan Report 3 Mar 2017 10:18

I wish my parents/grandparents had been more enterprising :-D

David

David Report 3 Mar 2017 10:03


Many enterprising people ran brothels or were bootleggers before entering politics
the wealth bought them or their sons an education and provided a "reputable" background.

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 2 Mar 2017 23:48

:-D :-D :-D

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Allan

Allan Report 2 Mar 2017 23:27

:-D :-D :-D

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 2 Mar 2017 23:10

My grandmother was Cornish, but insisted her mother was from 'Spanish stock' - with the surname Best?????

I notice Trump's grandfather also has an 'interesting' hair style :-D

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Allan

Allan Report 2 Mar 2017 22:21

Interesting :-D

Why would DT claim his grandfather was from Sweden?

My grandmother came from Ireland, but I think that she was Welsh! :-\

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 2 Mar 2017 22:11

Bloomberg also carried the story


https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-trump-family-fortune/

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 2 Mar 2017 22:08

I can't open it either :-(

I found it by googling Donald Trump's grandfather

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 2 Mar 2017 22:08

I would have you know that Maclean's is a we ll-respected Canadian news magazine ..... they usually check their facts pretty well

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Allan

Allan Report 2 Mar 2017 21:53

I couldn't open the link, but it doesn't matter; it was probably an 'alternative fact' ;-)

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 2 Mar 2017 21:37

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/inside-the-wild-canadian-past-of-the-trump-family/



The apparent fact that Friedrich Trump made masses of money by running the hotel and brothel in the Yukon is denied by his offspring ;-)

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Kathryn

Kathryn Report 2 Mar 2017 17:57

This is getting interesting ;-)

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 2 Mar 2017 17:32

......... and RT's grandfather made his money running a brothel in the Yukon :-)



EDIT:- sorry, should have put DT's grandfather!!

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David

David Report 2 Mar 2017 09:44


It gets tacky. RT's Mother left Scotland for reasons he doesn't broadcast :-(

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RockyMountainShy

RockyMountainShy Report 2 Mar 2017 08:09

Now he's back saying that Obama has a fake birth certificate but I say WHO CARES. He is no longer president so it really doesn't matter if he was born in America or not. Hey maybe Trump wasn't born in America.

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Oxfordshire, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire etc.

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