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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 hes 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:
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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 dont even think it was him, I never even heard about it. So its really not fair to mention. It never happened. Trumps 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/
Vinca
(50,237 posts)Sorry, but that's ridiculous. Even when it comes to Trump.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...that it is necessary to talk about his father.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)If we were wondering how racist Donald is versus how much he is pandering to racists then this is part of that answer.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)It was the 1920s. It is meaningless today..other than just being out there and making it possible to have the word Trump and Klan in the same sentence...
H2O Man
(73,506 posts)malaise
(268,702 posts)his racist views
H2O Man
(73,506 posts)his racist views. He is 100% responsible for them. If he were a youth, we could correctly apply his dad's toxic views as an influence. But Don is an adult.
but I still like knowing that his father was KKK.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)in the news was when he was being investigated for housing discrimination (as a landlord) against African-Americans in New York City in the early 1970s.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)It's not even known if this WAS his father.
It happened 22 years before he was born.
Silly and pointless.
Trump is an idiot and we don't need to grasp at straws to prove it.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Interesting bit of history on The Don's daddy.