We did the Wiki DRUMPF history from the start. Daily Beast is just picking up on it.
And using "DRUMPF" consistently here is not an national-origin slur; it's meant to point to his hypocrisy about present day immigrants. For somebody (him) in whose life story the topic of immigration is *so* prominent (his grandparents; mother; two wives), it is gobsmacking that he has made the persecution of immigrants into such a thing.
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[font size=5]Meet Freidrich—Pimp, Profiteer and Patriarch of the Trump Line[/font]
Exploiting the poor, draft-dodging and busty blondes turn out to be family traditions.
by David Cay Johnston
The Trump family’s deep roots in Germany stretch back to the war-ravaged seventeenth century, when the family name was Drumpf. In 1648, they simplified the name to one that would prove to be a powerful brand for their latter-day descendants. ....
A family tradition Friedrich Trump did start in America, however, was the art of prospering but wanting more. Friedrich sold his restaurant/bordello and set up a new business about thirty miles north. Rumor had it that the oil-rich Rockefellers planned a big mining operation in the area. On a piece of land he didn’t own, right across from the train station, Friedrich built a hotel of sorts—one intended mostly for, shall we say, active short stays, not overnight visits. Building on land he did not own foreshadowed the terms under which his grandson Donald would acquire the Florida mansion Mar-a-Lago: with a mortgage that Chase Bank agreed in writing not to record at the courthouse. ....
Once there, however, he had to convince the authorities to overlook his draft dodging. Hoping the fortune he brought into the country would impress the authorities, in September 1904 he explained his absence to the government in writing: “I did not immigrate to America in order to avoid military service, but to establish for myself a profitable livelihood and to enable myself to support my mother” in Kallstadt. German authorities didn’t buy it; they ordered him to leave. ....
*********Excerpted from The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston, published by Melville House, and reprinted here with the permission of the publisher and the author, who retain all rights.
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