Posted on 09/20/2015 1:38:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Canadians amused by the improbable presidential run of Donald Trump might be surprised to learn the role their own country played in shaping his story.
Trump's grandfather started the family fortune in an adventure that involved the Klondike gold rush, the Mounties, prostitution and twists of fate that pushed him to New York City.
Friedrich Trump had been in North America a few years when he set out for the Yukon, says an author who's just completed a new edition of her multi-generational family biography.
That Canadian chapter proved pivotal for the entrepreneurial German immigrant, says Gwenda Blair, author of The Trumps: Three Generations That Built An Empire.
"It allowed him to get together the nest egg he'd come to the United States for," the author and Columbia University journalism professor said in an interview.
"Whether he could've accumulated that much money somewhere else, in that short a period of time, as a young man with no connections, and initially not even English, is certainly ... unlikely."
He'd left Europe in 1885 at age 16, a barber's apprentice whose father died young.
Trump wanted a life outside the barber shop, far from the family-owned vineyards his ancestors had been working since they'd settled in Germany's Kallstadt region in the 1600s carrying the soon-altered surname Drumpf.
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JFK’s father Joe Kennedy was a gangster and prohibition rum runner.
Next.
So?
Ja und?
My grandfather was a mule skinner. I guess my family is now damned for all time.
My grandfather made his own booze in the town he was chief of police and mayor of.
Saints are sinners and sinners are saints.
My mom finally filled me in I was about 45.
What a great factoid. Almost like our president being born outside of the US witnessed by his grandmother in Kenyan village.
Wow. The media can go all the way back to the existence of dinosaurs on the face of the earth AND proved that they roamed the earth to find dirt on a Republican whom they fear, but can’t dig up ANY info on Obama or his staff without severe prodding? Finger of Satan.
So Fred Trump saw opportunity, and maximized the potential, trading on a sure thing....
Surely people have done much worse than that in their lifetimes.
All the gold ain’t in them thar hills. Some of it has been dug up and now resides in somebody else’s vaults.
Kewl
So what? The Clintons are part of a mafia organization right NOW and no one cares. Obama is part of the same organization and probably funded by George Soros and his Saudi buddies who are the very example of virtuous living and still, no one cares.
Trump’s great great grand father robbed banks.. (I just made it up to demonstrate the ridiculous length to with media is trying to find negative stuff on Trump).
Entrepreneurial, eh?!
OH WOW, I am votin’ for Grandpa.
My grandfather was illiterate.
"For single men the Arctichas 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"'
Well, that aught ‘o disqualify him.
Brothel was purely speculative. He had a restaurant, that became a hotel. There was a paragraph in an advertisement that said women might hear that which they might consider repugnant should not stay there. The author interpretaction is they were part the very active sex industry. Another review of his facility says it was the best food in Yukon. Menu included many fresh meats and fruit
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