The New York Times obit for Fred Trump appears on June 26th, 1999. I didn’t follow up to see if anything appears after.
JFK Jr. It would be possible to have “read” about Fred Trump’s death over the weekend and the letter written the following week, but it wouldn’t have been DATED the 19th of June or July. It certainly wouldn’t have taken more than 2 weeks for Trump to have “received” a condolence letter from a close friend, so the speculation that Larry was reading when Trump “received” the letter is ludicrous. It was clearly and “OOPS”, but I certainly wouldn’t look to Snopes to tell me that.
If you find a credible debunking of it post it.