How was his eyes?
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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Sins of the grandfather?
Stupid...
Guilt by mere association? Grossly unfair...
How was his eyes?
LOL. Dig deeeeeep. Real deeeeep. Trump’s grandpa ran a valuable ‘service’ to the gold miners... This is just too funny.
OK thats that..Trump is toast!
Big deal. You would never guess what some of my ancestors did.
5.56mm
Cool.
The Yukon Alaska gold rush circa1898
That'll just add another 3 or 4 percentage points to his support.
Jeb might call it “an act of love.”
They have to go that far back to dig up dirt on him?
That’s desperation......
Can anyone say.... “Bill Clinton”?
Anybody mention the Delano’s ? They referenced FDR’s family tree when he was running. So this kind of stuff was used back then and probably used since the begining of POTUS races. It’s NBD
...and he had his daughter lobotomized!!!!!!
Und Zo?
My grandpa killed a man in the back hills of Kentucky. He was never charged though.
SO! It only means that Trumps know how to make money. My great Grand father was an Abolishist and later ran a Saloon in Deadwood, SD in the Gold Rush.
We now know where The Donald got his ‘ Entrepreneurial spirit’
aka workers!!
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