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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen rioted in Queens. Trump's father was arrested in that incident.
Joy Reid? @JoyAnnReid 3h3 hours ago...this story creeps out of the memory hole, and gains new and chilling resonance.
Donald Trump's father was arrested at Ku Klux Klan riot in New York in 1927, records reveal
_____The predication for the Klan to march, according to a flier passed around Jamaica beforehand, was that Native-born Protestant Americans were being assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City. Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon, it continued, when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organise to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language.
It's not clear from the context what role Fred Trump played in the brawl. The news article simply notes that seven men were arrested in the near-riot of the parade, all of whom were represented by the same lawyers. Update: A contemporaneous article from the Daily Star notes that Trump was detained on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so.
When news of the old report surfaced last year, Donald Trump vehemently denied his father's arrest. He was never arrested. He has nothing to do with this. This never happened. This is nonsense and it never happened, he said to the Daily Mail. This never happened. Never took place. He was never arrested, never convicted, never even charged. It's a completely false, ridiculous story. He was never there! It never happened. Never took place.
...It's worth noting that Trump's comments came one day after another Klan brawl, this time in Anaheim, Calif. Thirteen people were arrested and three were stabbed after a Klan rally turned violent. And it's worth noting, too, as did Jonathan Chait at New York magazine, that Trump's claim to know nothing about white supremacists echoes the language of the 19th-century Know Nothing party a nativist group that supported only Protestants for public office...
read: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/charlottesville-latest-donald-trump-father-fred-arrested-ku-klux-klan-kkk-rally-riot-queens-new-york-a7891701.html
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In 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen rioted in Queens. Trump's father was arrested in that incident. (Original Post)
bigtree
Aug 2017
OP
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief has a shameful ancestry
that he and his republican comrades are continuing to debase, as they and their freaking russian money-mob buddies betray America and American ideals.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)2. White Christian terror
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)3. I'm gonna go out on a limb here...
and guess that Trump, Sr was not a counter-protester.
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)4. The KKK is in trump's blood
bigtree
(86,005 posts)5. like father, like son
...learned behavior, imo.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)6. This is what they want...
Fascinating and creepy. We smashed them before, we'll smash them again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/06/american-nazis-in-the-1930sthe-german-american-bund/529185/
...before.
Supposedly 22,000 Nazi supporters attended an American Bund rally at New York's Madison Square Garden in February 1939, under police guard.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029453211
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)8. Donald Trump AND his Dad sued by DOJ for not renting to blacks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/donald-trump-blacks-lawsuit_n_855553.html
Trump Management settled the case, promising not to discriminate against blacks, Puerto Ricans and other minorities. As part of the agreement, Trump was required to send its list of vacancies in its 15,000 apartments to a civil-rights group, giving them first priority in providing applicants for certain apartments, according to a contemperaneous New York Times account. Trump, who emphasized that the agreement was not an admission of guilt...
But the company didnt sufficiently fulfill its promise, because three years later, the Justice Department charged Trump Management with continuing to discriminate against blacks through such tactics as telling them that apartments were not available
Trump Management settled the case, promising not to discriminate against blacks, Puerto Ricans and other minorities. As part of the agreement, Trump was required to send its list of vacancies in its 15,000 apartments to a civil-rights group, giving them first priority in providing applicants for certain apartments, according to a contemperaneous New York Times account. Trump, who emphasized that the agreement was not an admission of guilt...
But the company didnt sufficiently fulfill its promise, because three years later, the Justice Department charged Trump Management with continuing to discriminate against blacks through such tactics as telling them that apartments were not available
Fluke a Snooker
(404 posts)9. May I post a great Donald Trump photo in a KKK robe?
Not sure if it's appropriate for Democratic Underground, I'm still getting my feet wet. Thanks.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)10. sure
...why not?