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Ex-NYT Reporter Johnston: Trump's Granddad Built Fortune 'Running Whorehouses'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/20/2019 12:04:23 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Former New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston has forged a nice little late-in-life career as one of America's most vitriolic Trump haters. He's written a Trump-hating book, It’s Even Worse Than You Think, and he regularly pops up on MSNBC whenever a dose of anti-Trump venom is desired.

Appearing on today's AM Joy, Johnston reached back in history to slur the President, claiming that his grandfather, Friedrich Trump, built the first Trump fortune by "running whorehouses."

That is a claim that is unverified at best. Gwenda Blair wrote the most definitive biography of the Trump family. And as per this Washington Post article, Blair "was careful not to say that Trump ran brothels. I think we don’t quite know that.”

In 2015, the liberals at Snopes.com addressed the question: "Did Donald Trump’s Grandfather Make His Fortune in Prostitution?" Snopes ruled: "Mostly False."

Get the rest of the story and video here.

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KEYWORDS: clickbait; davidcayjohnston; friedrichtrump; joyreid; presidenttrump
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To: raybbr

If President Trump were a democrat running a brothel would be an enhancement to his resume.


61 posted on 04/20/2019 1:35:17 PM PDT by JayAr36 (Organized Crime is now in charge of the District of Corruption)
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To: raybbr

Acknowledged, but it is still KR@p.

Just sayin’

JR allows Qr@p too.

Doesn’t mean I have to like it...


62 posted on 04/20/2019 1:37:03 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Got to love capitalism!


63 posted on 04/20/2019 1:47:25 PM PDT by jonsie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; All

He’s jealous. That guy is so fat and ugly with that disgusting beard, even a hooker wouldn’t do him.


64 posted on 04/20/2019 2:01:25 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: SkyDancer

And Pelosi’s father had something to do with the mob.


65 posted on 04/20/2019 2:03:21 PM PDT by magua (Because itÂ’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And the Kennedys made their money from bootlegging, what’s his point?


66 posted on 04/20/2019 2:03:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

And a drunk who was had three drunk driving crashes. The second of which took his legs and the third took his life.


67 posted on 04/20/2019 2:15:41 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Chelsea Dagger)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

EMBRACE THE IDIOCY!! Yeah that’s the ticket ... it wasn’t hush money, it was REPARATIONS!! Paying back against Grand Dad’s debt!


68 posted on 04/20/2019 2:15:49 PM PDT by gtwizard (Income Inequality is called INCENTIVE!)
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To: All

Imagine if this is true, the type of information he might have on the high and mighty in N.Y. :-)


69 posted on 04/20/2019 2:19:15 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Seems I recall similar tales of whorehouses and Bill Clinton’s mother, but she didn’t run it she just worked there.


70 posted on 04/20/2019 2:23:50 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I heard David Cay Johnston’s Great grandfather was an abusive slave owner.
71 posted on 04/20/2019 2:26:10 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Oh they've thrown everything they've got at Trump, and he still dances circles around them.

Why?

He's their towering superior in every conceivable way: intellectually, morally, spiritually--in every possible way!

(And the Lilliputians just can't stand it!)

(You could almost feel sorry for the worthless; inferior; intellectually, morally, and spiritually retarded bastards.)

(Almost, perhaps, but...no.)

72 posted on 04/20/2019 2:28:41 PM PDT by Savage Beast (The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Maybe they could address Hillary and Bill Clinton and pedo island.


73 posted on 04/20/2019 2:48:05 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: magua

These liberal bobble heads just go out and do a rant like any one conservative really cares.


74 posted on 04/20/2019 2:58:14 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Made his fortune marketing what the male customers wanted . Whats wrong with that ?


75 posted on 04/20/2019 3:01:31 PM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. ")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Wasn't Obama's mom a prostitute or a nudie magazine model or some such nakedness?

Photos plastered all over the internet of his mom nude, posing for a photographer.

The only reason this Johnston loser is doing this is because he hates Trump. Nothing else. He just hates him.

Take what he says with grain of salt.

76 posted on 04/20/2019 4:25:02 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Don Corleone

“Go back far enough in anyone’s family tree and you will find someone hanging from it.”

Some by their necks and some by their tails.


77 posted on 04/20/2019 4:30:18 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And Obola’s real father is commie Frank Marshall Davis.


78 posted on 04/20/2019 8:39:29 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

F-ing fake Colonel Sanders douchenozzle and his army of brain-dead Leftists cannot stop making crap up.

Holy nonsense Batman!


79 posted on 04/20/2019 10:04:57 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

IOW even before there were laws, Trump provided housing for democrats women in NYC.


80 posted on 04/20/2019 10:15:03 PM PDT by truth_seeker ( ^^\/**|_|**\/ ^^)
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