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Trump (senior) was a teetotaler[f] and an authoritarian parent,
maintaining curfews and forbidding cursing, lipstick, and snacking between meals.[32][33] At the end of his day, Trump would receive a report from
Mary on the children's actions, and if necessary, decide upon disciplinary actions.[33] He took his children to building sites to collect empty
bottles to return for the deposits.[34] The boys had paper routes, and
when weather conditions were poor, their father would let them make their deliveries in a limousine.[34] Trump taught Donald to "be a killer", and
told him "You are a king."[35]
During World War II and until the 1980s, Trump denied that he spoke German
and claimed that he was of Swedish origin.[36] According to Trump's
nephew, John Walter, "He had a lot of Jewish tenants and it wasn't a good
thing to be German in those days."[3] Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal
(1987) falsely states that Fred Trump was the son of an immigrant from
Sweden and born in New Jersey.[37][g]
In 1981, Trump's oldest son, Frederick Jr., died at age 42 from
complications due to alcoholism
Profiteering investigations
In early 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and other federal leaders
began denouncing real-estate profiteers. On June 11, The New York Times included Trump on a list of 35 city builders accused of profiteering from government contracts.[43] He and others were investigated by a U.S. Senate Banking committee for windfall gains. Trump and his partner William
Tomasello (who previously had mafia ties)[44] were cited as examples of
how profits were made by builders using the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).[45] The two paid $34,200 for a piece of land which they rented to
their corporation for $76,960 annually in a 99-year lease, so that if the apartment they built on it ever defaulted, the FHA would owe them $1.924 million. Trump and Tomasello evidently obtained loans for $3.5 million
more than the Beach Haven apartments had cost.[46][47] Trump argued that because he had not withdrawn the money, he had not literally pocketed the profits.[48][49] He further argued that due to rising costs, he would have
had to invest more than the 10% of the mortgage loan not provided by the
FHA, and therefore suffer a loss if he built under those conditions.[50]
In 1966, Trump was again investigated for windfall profiteering, this time
by New York's State Investigation Commission. After Trump overestimated building costs sponsored by a state program, he profited $598,000 on
equipment rentals in the construction of Trump Village, which was then
spent on other projects. Under testimony on January 27, 1966, Trump said
that he had personally done nothing wrong and praised the success of his building project.[51] The commission called Trump "a pretty shrewd
character" with a "talent for getting every ounce of profit out of his
housing project," but no indictments were made. Instead, tighter
administration protocols and accountabily in the state's housing program
were called for.[52]
Civil rights suit and code violations
Minority applicants turned away from renting apartments complained to the
New York City Commission on Human Rights and the Urban League, leading the League and other groups to send test applicants to Trump-owned complexes
in July 1972. They concluded that whites were offered apartments, while
blacks were generally steered away.[j] Both of the aforementioned advocacy organizations then raised the issue with the Justice Department.[58] In
October 1973, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
(DOJ) filed a civil rights suit against the Trump Organization (Fred
Trump, chair, and Donald Trump, president) for infringing the Fair Housing
Act of 1968.[58] In response, Trump attorney Roy Cohn countersued for $100 million by implicating the DOJ for allegedly false accusations.[58]
Court records showed that four landlords or rental agents confirmed that applications sent to the Trump organization's head office for approval
were coded by the race of the applicant.[59] A rental agent who worked
with the company for two weeks said that Fred Trump told him that it was "absolutely against the law to discriminate,"[60] but later instructed him
"not to rent to blacks." The agent said he was further advised to:
...get rid of the of blacks that were in the building by telling them
cheap housing was available for them at only $500 down payment, which
Trump would offer to pay himself. Trump didn't tell me where this housing
was located. He advised me not to rent to persons on welfare.[61]
A consent decree between the DOJ and the Trump Organization was signed on
June 10, 1975, with both sides claiming victory—the Trump Organization for its perceived ability to continue denying rentals to welfare recipients,
and the head of DOJ's housing division for the decree being "one of the
most far-reaching ever negotiated."[58][59] It personally and corporately prohibited the Trumps from "discriminating against any person in the ...
sale or rental of a dwelling," and "required Trump to advertise vacancies
in minority papers, promote minorities to professional jobs, and list
vacancies on a preferential basis".[59] Finally, it ordered the Trumps to "thoroughly acquaint themselves personally on a detailed basis with ...
the Fair Housing Act of 1968."[58][62]
In early 1976, Trump was ordered by a county judge to correct code
violations in a 504-unit property in Seat Pleasant, Maryland. According to
the county's housing department investigator, violations included broken windows, dilapidated gutters, and missing fire extinguishers.[k] After a
court date and a series of phone calls with Trump, he was invited to the property to meet with county officials in September 1976 and arrested on site.[64] Trump was released on $1,000 bail.[63]
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so this is HOW ya gets rich then innit folks! by ripping people off??
the wealthy are thus all like that: outright industrial thieves & robbers!
welcome then to gangster-world!
who've turned it into the asshole of the universe...
a 'dying' asshole if the current rate of species-extinction is anything to
go by?
awake now? yeah but for how long though!
10 minutes tops i reckon and then you'll all be snoring + gladly swimming
in shit again heh...
lol what a world :D
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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