Trump’s Immigrant Grandpappy Made The Family Fortune On Stolen Land, Hookers And Booze

[Generic Other]

Donald Trump has found his way into the hearts of the ignorant with enough racism to fill a stadium…literally. Trump has become the king of the one-trick ponies with his presidential campaign platform of “beat up on immigrants and the stupid will follow.”

As it turns out, The Donald is even more of a hypocrite than anyone could have ever imagined. It’s bad enough that his hotels are built on the sweat of immigrant labor and that his clothing is made anywhere but in the U.S. Now we have to find out through a blockbuster new book, that the Trump name and fortune were built on fraud, booze, stolen land and hookers.

And we’re not even talking about Atlantic City.

Trump’s grandfather came to the U.S. from Germany in the 1880s. Back then there was no such thing as an immigration quota, so a young man named Friedrich changed his name to the American sounding Frederick, became a naturalized citizen and set off for Seattle to make himself a fortune.

Thus began the great legacy that is the Trump real estate empire. Upon landing in Seattle, Frederick leased a small restaurant called “the Poodle Dog” that advertised “private rooms for ladies,” which was code for “prostitutes for hire.” He learned quickly how to turn sex and booze into a profitable venture.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/20/trumps-immigrant-grandpappy-made-the-family-fortune-on-stolen-land-hookers-and-booze/

[orpupilofnature57]

1. The founder of Skull & Bones family bank rolled Yale on drugs .

[Generic Other]

3. The Poodle Dog is still around in my town

I had no idea that this is why the older men winked and snickered when they talked about meeting there for business meetings.

Also, I had no idea Trump's grandpa was a price-gouging Yukon merchant/pimp!

[hobbit709]

2. Behind every great fortune there lies a great crime.

[Generic Other]

4. Cheers!

[Generic Other]

5. More about the seedy Trump family tree

About Grandpa Trump's establishment the Arctic:

'For single men the Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings – and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex,' he wrote in a letter to the Yukon Sun newspaper, according to the Canadian magazine.

By 1897, a railroad now linked Skagway and Whitehorse and their Bennett Town location was no longer a thoroughfare, so Trump rebuilt the New Arctic on Whitehorse's Front Street.

According to Up Here, the premises were open around the clock, serving as many as 3,000 meals a day to the loose-moralled men and women cavorting in its bars and bedrooms.

But trouble was brewing for Trump as Levin, partial to his booze, began running debts up around the town.

After just over three years in the north, Trump, again ahead of the curve, cashed in and shipped out, as stampeders fled the area in droves.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200169/How-Trumps-struck-Klondike-gold-Donalds-grandfather-gave-birth-familys-glittering-empire-seedy-restaurant-catering-loose-moralled-men-women-seeking-fortune.html

[WestSeattle2]

6. Not too horribly different than Joseph Kennedy.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

7. I'm going to defend Trump on this one,

He has done plenty loathsome on his own, but there is no such thing as original sin. My father's family is as rich a collection of gangsters and scum as one could easily imagine. But I don't think anything I could do would make that "fair game".

[roguevalley]

8. I know what you mean but then there is that nazi connection of the bushes ...

[Igel]

9. Then there's the first two "sins."

How dare he employ sex workers and sell alcohol.

DU has a firm anti-prostitution/promiscuity code and a strict policy of Prohibition. Sex is confined to marriage and ethanol to the lab bench or car. (As opposed to alcohol strictly confined to marriage and sex to the lab bench or car.)