Report: Trump's Dad Was Arrested In 1927 Ku Klux Klan Brawl With Police

[ghostsinthemachine]

A newly surfaced report from a 1927 edition of the New York Times suggests Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's late father may have had a connection to the Ku Klux Klan.

A man named Fred Trump was among those arrested in a massive brawl between KKK members and police at a 1927 Memorial Day parade in New York City, according to a contemporaneous Times article surfaced Wednesday by the blog Boing Boing.

The Times article listed the arrestee's address as 175-24 Devonshire Road in Jamaica Estates, Queens. Past local news reports noted that the Republican presidential frontrunner's father (pictured above, third from the left) lived at that address. Donald Trump's German immigrant grandfather, who anglicized his own name to Fred Trump, died nine years before the incident occurred.

While six other men arrested in the brawl faced charges, the Times report noted that Fred Trump was discharged. All seven of the men who were arrested were represented by the same team of two lawyers, according to the Times report.

The Times reported that police said the brawl broke out because the Klan reneged on an agreement not to wear any of their symbols to the parade. The Klan members, for their part, accused the police of exceeding their authority in trying to keep them out of the parade, according to the report.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fred-trump-arrest-1927-kkk

[Major Nikon]

1. The nut doesn't fall far from the tree

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I don't like Trump but this incident isn't enough to condemn him.

No report that his father was arrested, prosecuted, and convicted. Only he was arrested and later discharged.

In 1927, there were less civil liberties and cops arrested anyone in the wrong place at the wrong time and then figured out if their arrests were valid later.

While Fred T. may have been a member of the local KKK, there's no proof that he was. Just that he was nearby. And even if he were, First Amendment right to free association as long as he wasn't breaking the law.

[Human101948]

4. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

Black employees at the Trump Casino in Atlantic City were routinely kept out of sight whenever the real estate mogul entered the building, says one former employee.

A New Yorker magazine article about Atlantic City contained the story of a former Trump Casino worker about the way he and other employees of color were treated on the job when “the boss” was around.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/casino-bosses-hid-black-employees-in-the-back-when-donald-trump-arrived-ex-worker-says/

[kaiden]

3. How old is this guy?

[Human101948]

5. Fred Trump would have been 22 at the time...

Trump was a typical landlord who categorized all blacks as "welfare recipients"

A few months after the government filed the suit, Trump gave a combative press conference at the New York Hilton in which he went after the Justice Department for being too friendly to welfare recipients. He “accused the Justice Department of singling out his corporation because it was a large one and because the Government was trying to force it to rent to welfare recipients,” the Times reported. Trump added that if welfare recipients were allowed into his apartments in certain middle-class outer-borough neighborhoods, there would be a “massive fleeing from the city of not only our tenants, but communities as a whole.”

http://www.salon.com/2011/04/28/donald_trump_discrimination_suit/

[Dont call me Shirley]

6. That explains Dons Hitler speeches, like father like son, the sins of the father.

[SummerSnow]

7. taught Donald his racist ways.

[ailsagirl]

8. KICK