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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

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To: Don Corleone

You mean like bootlegger Joe Kennedy. Not just the sire of the clan but of J&B Scotch. Who had a myriad of dealings with other bootleggers of the era.


41 posted on 04/20/2019 12:38:52 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

At Snopes, “mostly false” means true.

I don’t think it’s controversial.


42 posted on 04/20/2019 12:39:07 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So what of he did? Go back to origins of many family fortunes and you might find the foundation was on something morally wrong or illegal.


43 posted on 04/20/2019 12:40:34 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A lot of family fortunes began in commerce in some questionable enterprises. Look at John D, Rockefeller, who got rich by selling that line of nasty old petroleum products, and went on to really dirty up the world.

Grandpa Trump saw a need and filled it.


44 posted on 04/20/2019 12:45:06 PM PDT by alloysteel (Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori [Latin for"Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country."])
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You can’t pick your forebears, and the sins of the fathers visiting the children to the seventh generation is no longer applicable, because Jesus did away with the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us, according to the Bible.


45 posted on 04/20/2019 12:48:14 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
And he did it so well, he made a fortune.

I thought The Left said there is no dishonor in being a "sex worker"?

46 posted on 04/20/2019 12:50:12 PM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: bigbob
If so he was obviously damn good at it!

Better than the government was when it ran the Mustange Ranch...into the ground.

47 posted on 04/20/2019 12:51:07 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Well, someone’s got to do it.


48 posted on 04/20/2019 12:54:27 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So what? Providing social services for miners was accepted back then. Where’s the outrage about Prescott Bush? About Obama’s ancestors who were slaveholders?


49 posted on 04/20/2019 12:55:28 PM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Guess the Trumps have always been business people.


50 posted on 04/20/2019 12:56:09 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Trump's Granddad Built Fortune 'Running Whorehouses'


51 posted on 04/20/2019 1:02:58 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

One of the more complex characters in TV lately.


52 posted on 04/20/2019 1:04:04 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Don Corleone
Go back far enough in anyone’s family tree and you will find someone hanging from it.

President Trump's uncle, John Trump of MIT, is far more interesting. He was one of the few scientists invited to inspect Tesla's papers when the government confiscated them upon Tesla's death.

53 posted on 04/20/2019 1:04:46 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (“Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts.”)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Maybe there are reasons why he is an “ex-reporter.”


54 posted on 04/20/2019 1:04:47 PM PDT by x
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Isn’t “sex work” a badge of honor with Dems? Are they castigating the girls who were making a living?


55 posted on 04/20/2019 1:09:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Well, I think David Cay Johnston should know.

Both his grandmothers and his mother worked in Trump's grandfather's whorehouses.

And his sisters, his wife, his daughters and granddaughters all make money for the family "the old-fashioned way"... ;-)

56 posted on 04/20/2019 1:19:00 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I had no idea Trumps father ran congress?


57 posted on 04/20/2019 1:20:20 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Definitely an impeachable offense. Lets take everyone’s family back as far as they can be traced and charge the present family with any crimes their ancestors may have committed by today’s laws, standards, political views, and social memes. Seems fair, eh?


58 posted on 04/20/2019 1:22:55 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Paladin2

The OP has been posting this for 19 years. If JR didn’t approve it wouldn’t be on the site.


59 posted on 04/20/2019 1:31:32 PM PDT by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And Kennedy’s daddy ran booze in prohibition.

Meanwhile can he explain how the federal government couldn’t make money owning a whorehouse in Nevada, IIRC?

Aside: what was the GS rating of a hooker? Did they get federal civil service benefits like retirement? Also, how many congressional fact finding missions were there?


60 posted on 04/20/2019 1:35:12 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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