Report: Trump's dad was arrested in 1927 for fighting police with the KKK

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Report: Trump's dad was arrested in 1927 for fighting police with the KKK

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-dad-arrested-in-1927-for-kkk-involvement-2015-9#ixzz3lIrg5gqK

Catherine Thompson at TPM, Business Insider

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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.


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1. I'm from Queens. It's fucking depressing

that he was too.