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Feb 25, 2019 · Beneath a photo of Fred Trump, the text states he was "arrested participating in KKK riot" in 1927. The post contains some elements of truth about Fred Trump: He was arrested that year in...
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On Sept. 9, 2015 — three months after Trump announced his bid for president — the tech blog BoingBoing.netpublished a New York Times article from 1927 that reported that Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, had been detained at a KKK rally on Memorial Day weekend. According to the article, “1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neigh...
The information available in the New York Times article made it difficult to figure out whether Trump’s father was directly involved in the melee or was simply a bystander, falsely accused or otherwise the victim of mistaken identity during the chaotic event. There is no indication in the article that Trump’s father was a member or supporter of the...
Donald Trump quickly denounced claims that his father had been arrested. "He was never arrested. He has nothing to do with this. This never happened. This is nonsense and it never happened," Trump told the Daily Mail during an interview in September 2015. "This never happened. Never took place. He was never arrested, never convicted, never even cha...
We find this claim to be PARTLY FALSE based on our research. News reports from the day show a Fred Trump was detained at a KKK rally in 1927. But there is no evidence that Trump, father to the president, was a member or supporter of the KKK. Posts that discuss simply the detention — for which there are no existing arrest records — without context a...
Apr 8, 2023 · Donald’s father, Fred, was arrested twice during his lifetime. One of his arrests came as the result of a Ku Klux Klan rally, while the other was more real-estate-centric.
Mar 10, 2016 · The June 1, 1927, account of the May 31 Klan rally printed in a defunct Brooklyn paper called the Daily Star specifies that a Fred Trump “was dismissed on a charge of refusing to disperse.” That...
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Apr 5, 2023 · Apr 4, 2023, 11:03 PM PDT. Former President Donald Trump denied his father was arrested in 1927 after a Ku Klux Klan riot, and said he had no idea about Fred Trump's 1976 arrest. Rita...
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Sep 9, 2015 · A newly surfaced report from a 1927 edition of the New York Times suggests Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s late father may have had a connection to the Ku Klux Klan.
Oct 29, 2019 · CLAIM: Picture shows Mary and Fred Trump, wearing Ku Klux Klan robes, standing with son Donald Trump in 1999. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The photo, which was taken of Trump with his parents in 1992, has been altered.
