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These Trump Family Fights Are Brutal
National Review ^ | 1/4/2016 | Jim Gehahty

Posted on 01/05/2016 10:55:57 AM PST by conservativejoy

You don't often see "retaliated by withdrawing the medical benefits critical to his nephew's infant child" in profiles of political front-runners.

But Sunday's New York Times article, discussing Donald Trump's relationship with his late brother Freddy, includes it at the bottom. Then came the unveiling of Fred Sr.'s will, which Donald had helped draft. It divided the bulk of the inheritance, at least $20 million, among his children and their descendants, "other than my son Fred C. Trump Jr."

Freddy's children sued, claiming that an earlier version of the will had entitled them to their father's share of the estate, but that Donald and his siblings had used "undue influence" over their grandfather, who had dementia, to cut them out.

A week later, Mr. Trump retaliated by withdrawing the medical benefits critical to his nephew's infant child. "I was angry because they sued," he explained during last week's interview. But hey, no worries; I'm sure that cutting off medical care for an infant won't come up in attack ads in the general election.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


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To: conservativejoy

That’s only if you changed providers.


41 posted on 01/05/2016 1:17:33 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I’ve mourned the loss of both my parents, who left a not insubstantial estate. My siblings and I didn’t fight over anything. We came together, we buried old wounds, and we comforted each other.


42 posted on 01/05/2016 1:26:38 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: TTFlyer

Agreed. I refuse to click on their website. Linking NRO is the equivalent of linking DU


43 posted on 01/05/2016 1:29:48 PM PST by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: sitetest

Good for you and yours. That is a beautiful and all too rare thing.


44 posted on 01/05/2016 1:31:06 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: AppyPappy

He canceled the policy. You’re beating a dead horse on the pre existing thing. I know because I lived it.


45 posted on 01/05/2016 1:33:22 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy

So have I. That’s how I know.


46 posted on 01/05/2016 1:38:54 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: conservativejoy

47 posted on 01/05/2016 1:40:11 PM PST by Bratch
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To: SoFloFreeper

At the time that this baby was born, trump would have been a-okay with that.


48 posted on 01/05/2016 1:41:38 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: AppyPappy

If you think 35 years ago you could buy insurance for a seriously ill infant you are delusional. If you had a policy covering that child and canceled it, you were out of luck getting a new one. Companies were not required by law to cover those pre existing conditions and they didn’t.


49 posted on 01/05/2016 1:42:37 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness.
And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.

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50 posted on 01/05/2016 1:42:43 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: conservativejoy

That’s the best they got? He stopped paying for his brothers insurance policy? And claims he got him written out of his father’s will?? Seriously?

It’s not like he threatened women raped by his husband, or sent out folks to destroy them in the press etc....

Seriously, you are worried about this as dirt in a general election when the opponent is Hillary?


51 posted on 01/05/2016 1:43:24 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

It takes a cold hearted person to cancel a health insurance policy on a critically ill baby because he got angry. It was spiteful and wrong.


52 posted on 01/05/2016 1:46:03 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy

That’s why I said “That’s only if you changed providers”.


53 posted on 01/05/2016 1:47:56 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: AppyPappy

Would you consider a policy being canceled a change in provider? What company do you know that would issue a policy to cover a critically ill infant?


54 posted on 01/05/2016 1:50:48 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy

The one that covered the child when it was born will cover it. But if you changed providers after that, they may not be covered.

I changed policies and the new company DID cover pre-existing conditions which is one of the reasons I took the job.


55 posted on 01/05/2016 1:52:57 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: sanjuanbob
This branch of the family sound like libs.

Only that one branch?

56 posted on 01/05/2016 1:59:04 PM PST by x
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To: sitetest

true. and people change.


57 posted on 01/05/2016 2:06:04 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Obama hates the three Cs: Christianity, Constitution, and capitalism.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It wouldn’t have helped the baby then if trump had been deciding its fate, that trump later supposedly changed his political stance from all-out baby murder up until the moment of birth, to now believing that baby murder is okay in cases of rape, incest, life of the mother, and depending on how far along it is.


58 posted on 01/05/2016 2:13:15 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: conservativejoy

And you assume the facts are accurate? I learned a long time ago when it comes to domestic disputes and family grudges you aren’t likely to ever get to the real truth of the matter.. No matter what those ABC after school specials say.

Any action any side takes is portrayed by the other in the worst light Always. I sure as hell am not digging into some family spat to try to judge anyone because I’ve never seen a single one where anyone comes out smelling like roses.


59 posted on 01/05/2016 2:44:59 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

My dad and I got into a conversation about money (not argument) he put it best when he said he never saw a Brinks truck in a funeral procession..


60 posted on 01/05/2016 3:02:36 PM PST by goat granny
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