The Crimes, Lies and Ruinous Policies of Donald Trump

By Jeffry Weiss

This book is not simply a retrospective of the Trump presidency.  It is a warning; a dire warning.  Trump is preparing to run again in 2024.  His base is intact and he is maintaining a very vocal and physical presence in the media. 

HE IS A THREAT and HE CAN WIN AGAIN

His actions and words are part of a carefully planned strategy to incite the disaffected, the dispossessed, the haters, the White supremacists, to start a movement that will lead to anarchy.

Our lax behavior is the antithesis of what our forefathers said was the obligation of citizens: to keep track of the policy of our elected leaders. 

Donald's heroes are brutal dictators: Recep Erdogan of Turkey, Viktor Orban of Hungary, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Vladimir Putin in Russia, Kim Jong-un of North Korea.

Trump is a sadist.  The definition of a sadist is one who enjoys the suffering of others.  But a true sadist is one who needs to be the cause of the suffering, for that is the ultimate source of satisfaction for these men.

You will only have yourselves to blame when you finally realize you are living in a dictatorship and all the rights and freedoms you once assumed were sacrosanct have been forever taken away.

It is imperative for every concerned America to read this book and demand that any Trump supporter read it as well.

For those who depend on Fox News, consider the words of their former commentator, Shepard Smith before he left his $15 million dollar job.  "Facts matter.  Truth matters."

 

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Jeffry Weiss is a political scientist, activist and investigative journalist who has been researching Donald Trump from the time Donald was 6 years old and marched with his father at a KKK rally.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeffry Weiss
• Release date: Nov 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201668396

Jeffry Weiss

BIOGRAPHY Mr. Weiss attended Central High School, at the time recognized as the top High School academically in the U.S.  He then attended Drexel University where he gained a BS in History, Temple University where he earned an MA in Economics and the University of Pennsylvania where he received an MA in International Affairs.  Those studies provided him with unique insights in the realm of foreign policy, military capabilities, détente, and trade. He has been a writer for forty plus years and has penned hundreds of articles on social, political, and economic issues.  He has written position papers for the Carter and Clinton Administrations and his work on social issues has received recognition directly from the office of the President of México.  He speaks regularly with Noam Chomsky on political, economic, cultural, and military issues. Mr. Weiss writes political, military, economic and scientific thrillers.  There are now twelve books in the Paul Decker series.  All his stories come right off the front pages of the major magazines and newspapers but none of his plots has ever found their way into novel before.  His characters are ones readers can relate to: flawed, not superheroes.  His stories do not require a leap of faith or use deus ex machina. Finally, he has written a stage play, “Einstein at the Guten Zeiten (good times) Beer Garden, and an urban horror novel: “The Art of Theft”, a modern day version of “The Picture of Dorian Grey” by Oscar Wilde.

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OTHER BOOKS BY JEFFRY WEISS

POLITICAL THRILLER SERIES; PAUL DECKER ASSIGNMENTS

1) The Go Code Protocol

2) Web War One

3) The Patriot Betrayal

4) The CERN Revelation

5) The Euro Option

6) The Eugenics Solution

7) Code 6 North of the DMZ

8) We the People

9) The Neanderthal Regression

10) To Live and Die in Juarez

11) The Mouth of Allah

12) Changing Of the Tides

13) Year of the Crocodile

14) The Order

15) The Death Zone

16) The Kremlin Insider

SCREENPLAYS

From The Depth

The Auto Auction

DIET / NUTRITION

Why We Eat...And Why We Keep Eating

The Perfect Day

The Caffeine Diet

Turning Off the Hunger Gene

Warning

Living a Alzheimer Free Life

SCI-FI

A Dystopian Tale

Message from Ceti-Alpha-6

REMAKES OF OLD CLASSICS

A Story Of Revenge (based on The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas)

Faust 2000 A.D. (based on Faust by Goethe)

The Art of Theft (based on The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde)

POLITICAL SATIRE

The Wizards of Oz

SOLVING THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

Who Bought the Bullets

STAGE PLAY

Einstein at the Guten Zieten Beer Garden

Chief of Staff (to Donald Trump) John F. Kelly, in a conversation with White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, said, The President is unhinged.

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Professor William T. Kelley, who taught at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School for 47 years, maintained a policy of never speaking about former students.  However, he made an exception for Donald Trump.  He said, Donald was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.

INTRODUCTION

Make no mistake...

This book is not simply a retrospective of the Trump presidency.  It is a warning; a dire warning.  Trump is preparing to run again in 2024.  His base is intact and he is maintaining a very vocal and physical presence in the media.  You say he cannot possibly win if he runs again.  Really?  Isn’t that what was said in 2016 when he trailed Hillary Clinton by double digits in the polls with just days to go before the general election?

Consider this scenario...A man is elected president.  He uses his proxies to incite civil unrest, attack state capitols, attempt to kidnap elected officials, and shut down transit.  The president declares Martial Law, which is justified when civilian authority has ceased to function, is completely absent, or has become ineffective.  Further, martial law suspends all existing laws, as well as civil authority and the ordinary administration of justice.

Does all this sound familiar?  It could be Recep Erdogan of Turkey, Viktor Orban of Hungary, Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Vladimir Putin in Russia.  Actually, they are the goals of Donald Trump.  And in this case his proxies are the Alt. Right, The Proud Boys, QAnon, White Supremacists, Nazi Sympathizers, The Oath Keepers, the Groyper Army and conspiracy theorists.

Let me assure you of two things.  One, if Donald Trump is reelected, he will immediately attempt to repeal the 22nd amendment, allowing him to run for office indefinitely.  Two, if he sees, or simply believes an election is turning against him, he will make every effort to declare martial law.  You may think this is far fetched?  Donald learned what power feels like in his first term and he wants it again.  And the next time he will not make the same mistakes that led to him losing that power in 2020.

Allow me to say this again, if a general, or even a mid-term election is going to end his presidency or deny him the ability to pass his legislative agenda, Donald Trump will make every effort to create chaos and to declare martial law.  Then the only voice you will hear on TV or radio or on the internet will be those that support his policies.  The rights and privileges you assumed were sacrosanct will be gone.

While you watch Dancing with the Stars, The Voice, Netflix, Dr. Pimple Popper, reruns of Seinfeld, your rights will evaporate right before your eyes.  It will happen so fast you will not even have the chance to protest.

The only way this will not occur is to stop Donald Trump from being reelected in 2024.  You have to act now: gather like-minded people and discuss this.  Challenge Trump supporters to see the facts and understand what a second Trump administration will look like.  Trump’s supporters need to be made aware that they are just fodder for him and will lose their rights alongside every one else. 

I am not a televangelist, or a conspiracy nut.  I have four college degrees and I have written 30+ fiction and non-fiction books on political issues.  I wrote position papers for three presidents. 

What I am telling you is not fantasy.  Either you take a stand now or forfeit the future you have dreamed about and were certain was yours.

I would be the first to say he is not a threat if that were the case.  But I can’t say that.  HE IS A THREAT and HE CAN WIN AGAIN.

Donald’s heroes, the men he looks up to, are brutal dictators.  And a number of them have been able to change their constitutions so they could continue as president indefinitely.

In just the past year, Xi Jinping in China forced  their congress to change the rules regarding term limits.

Trump said, in response, That’s great.  That’s something I’ll have to consider.

He said, I am the Second coming of God.  You may laugh at such a ridiculous pronouncement but I ASSURE you that Donald is deadly serious.

Trump called himself The Chosen One, then looked to the heavens.

If you think you have seen all the damage Trump can do you are living in a fantasy world.

Trump is a sadist.  That term may mean little to you.  It is so far from any societal norm that it is no more than a concept to most.  Allow me to assure you that in Trump’s case, the term is well earned and justified.

The definition of a sadist is, one who enjoys the suffering of others.  But a true sadist is one who needs to be the cause of the suffering, for that is the ultimate source of satisfaction.

Donald Trump was born and bred to be a sadist.  From the time he tricked his dementia-addled father out of his estate, to demeaning belittling and degrading workers, Donald has been on an upward trajectory of inflicting pain onto strangers and also (and especially) those close to him.

As the judge on The Apprentice, Donald got to fire people every week.  But that just whetted his appetite.  As president, he got to fire people at an unprecedented scale.  Yet that did not satiate his hunger for instilling misery into the lives of others.

Then a miracle happened!  Covid-19 came along.  Disregarding warnings by a past president, the CIA and his own CDC, Donald watched with amazement as the number of dead soared like the wings of an eagle.  Beginning with the first reported death on February 29, 2020, it took 89 days to reach 100,000.  118 days to reach 200,000.  83 days to reach 300,000.  36 days to reach 400,000.  Like a theater lover listening to an opera, a symphony, an aria that makes him cry, like an architect building a never before possible monolith, like a race car driver reaching a speed once considered impossible, Donald Trump was in ecstasy.

And it had all come to him; he did not have to create it.  Although surely, at some point, he certainly could have done something comparable. 

How was all this possible he wondered, but then you don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

All he could do was look on in amazement.  He just had to stay out of the way and the number of dead would pale in comparison to any project he had ever developed.

But that meant keeping others from organizing and fighting back.

Yes, all it took was mismanagement.  Something he had excelled at for decades.

He could do it, he could create roadblocks, stifle creativity, squash innovation, misdirect genius.

He thought of giving blessings for the opportunity, but then to whom?  Well, of course, to himself for there was no one more deserving.

That is precisely why Trump did no testing, no tracing during the Covid-19 pandemic, and withheld PPE (personal protection equipment) from states that did not pay homage to him.

Given another opportunity to run the country, Trump will not make the same mistake again.  He will attempt to incite enough violence, declare marshal law and postpone elections indefinitely.

His actions and words are part of a carefully planned strategy to incite the disaffected, the dispossessed, the haters, the White supremacists, to start a movement that will lead to anarchy.

Saying that Trump is guilty of treason because he asked a foreign leader to compromise a political opponent is like saying a mass murder is guilty because he stole the bullets for his guns.

Trump is the most dishonest, degenerate, incompetent man to ever occupy the White House.  Better to have a few rats living in your neighborhood than to be one.

You think he cares about QAnon or Proud Boys or White Supremacists, the Alt-right, or neo-Nazis?  They are just fodder for Donald to use in his quest for unlimited power.

You will either have to take a stand this time or be prepared to live under the iron fist of Donald Trump for as long as he lives.

Our lax behavior is the antithesis of what our forefathers said was the obligation of citizens: to keep track of the policy of our elected leaders.  It is the duty of all citizens to not accept as gospel what a politician says, but use due diligence to be certain that they do what they said they were going to do."

Set aside your favorite TV programs (or soon the only picture and voice you will hear will be that of Donald Trump).  Bring together like-minded friends to discuss the issues.  Donate to Democratic causes.  You may not like Biden but he champions the rule of law, safeguards the declaration of independence, upholds the bill of rights and preserves the constitution.

Wake up before you find all your rights and privileges in the hands of a deranged man.  You will only have yourself to blame when you finally realize you are living under a fascist government and all the rights and freedoms you once assumed were carved in stone have been forever taken away.

Why Do So Many People Still Believe Donald Trump?

According to a number of highly regarded, board-certified psychologists who analyzed many of the speeches, decisions, head and hand motions of Donald Trump, and professors at the schools Donald attended earlier in his life, they determined that his I.Q. is between 80 and 85. 

Those same psychologists concluded that Donald is a narcissist, a man who exhibits antisocial disorder syndrome, a sociopath with traits of criminality, arrogance, disregards the rights of others, dependent personality disorder, bullying and grandiosity, the hallmarks of which include an inability to make decisions or take responsibility.  He shows clear signs of having a learning disability, an inability to process information, an inability to ever admit he is wrong.  Finally he is delusional, cruel and heartless.  Even the monster Frankenstein had a conscience.

A large minority of people still confuse his arrogance for strength, false bravado for accomplishment and superficial interest in them for charisma.

Fact check, and PolitiFacts, two national organizations that compare what politicians, CEOs, celebrities and other noteworthy people say and do, concluded that Donald Trump lies 88% of the time.

In his first 4 years in office, Trump lied 30,573 times, averaging 21 erroneous claims a day.  Trump averaged about 6 false claims a day in his first year as president, 16 false claims a day in his second year, 22 false claims a day in this third year, and 39 false claims a day in his final year.  Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 false claims and an additional 14 months to reach 20,000.  He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later.

So, again I ask, why do so many people still believe Donald Trump?  Because they do not read what Trump actually does as opposed to what he says he does.  Even though he lies almost every time he opens his mouth, curses and hates all people, not just people of color, his base still backs him.  During the height of the Covid crisis, Donald said, At least one good thing came out of the virus.  I don’t have to shake hands with those disgusting people.  Those disgusting people are the people who revere Donald. 

Trump’s supporters are adamant, staunch and unshakable.

My work will challenge them and force them to reconsider their loyalty.

In the following pages I will fully document the evil, the rapacity, the degeneracy, the inhumanity, the barbarity, the criminality, the stupidity of Donald Trump. 

This is not simply a review of the past but a warning of what we may face in the future if what Donald Trump has done to our country is not documented and disseminated.

Let’s begin with the deviancy embedded in his family’s history.

THE TRUMP FAMILY 1869 TO 1999

1869-1918.  Grandfather Frederick Trump

Frederick Trump was born on 14 March 1869 in the village of Kallstadt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria (now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany).  Trump trained as a barber and then immigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and continued his former trade.  Several years later, in 1891, he moved to Seattle and began speculating in real estate.  During the Klondike Gold Rush, Trump traveled to the Yukon Territory and made his fortune by operating a restaurant and a brothel for miners in the boomtown of Whitehorse. 

In 1891, Trump moved to Seattle, in the newly admitted U.S. state of Washington.  With his life savings of several hundred dollars, he bought the Poodle Dog, which he renamed the Dairy Restaurant, and supplied it with new tables, chairs, and a range.  Located at 208 Washington Street, the Dairy Restaurant was in the middle of Seattle's Pioneer Square.  Washington Street was nicknamed The Line and included an assortment of saloons, casinos, and brothels.  It was called a hotbed of sex, booze, and money.  The restaurant served food and liquor and was advertised to include rooms for ladies, a common euphemism for prostitution

On February 14, 1894, Trump sold the Dairy Restaurant, and in March, he moved to the emerging mining town of Monte Cristo, Washington in Snohomish County north of Seattle.  Trump chose a plot of land near the coming train station that he wanted to build a hotel on, but could not afford the $1,000-per-acre fee to purchase it.  Instead, he filed a Gold placer claim on the land, which allowed him to claim exclusive mineral rights to the land without having to pay for it, even though the land had already been claimed by Everett resident Nicholas Rudebeck.  At that time, the U.S. Land Office was known to be corrupt and frequently allowed such multiple claims.  Despite the placer's claim providing Trump no right to build any structure on the land, Trump quickly bought lumber to build a new boarding house and operate it similarly to the Dairy Restaurant.  He never tried to mine gold on the land.  In July 1894, Rudebeck filed to incorporate the land and sent an agent to collect rent; this was apparently unsuccessful since the people of Monte Cristo did not pay attention to legal titles.

In Seattle, Frederick Trump opened a new restaurant at 207 Cherry Street.  Business was so good that he paid off the mortgage in four weeks.  Meanwhile, on 7 July, two miners who Trump had funded, staked his claim at Hunker Creek, a tributary of the Klondike. After spending $15 to register the claim, they sold half of it for $400 the next day.  A week later, another miner sold it for $1,000.  On 20 September, they staked a second claim, at Deadwood Creek.  Half of it was sold in October for $150, while the other half was sold in December for $2,000.  It is, however, unknown if Trump ever received any money from there.  But by early 1898, he had made enough money to go to the Yukon himself.

He had no plans to do actual mining.  In the spring of 1898, Trump and another miner named Ernest Levin opened a tent restaurant along the trail.  It was noted that a frequent dish was fresh-slaughtered, quick-frozen horse.

In May 1898, Trump and Levin moved to Bennett, British Columbia, a town known for prospectors building boats in order to travel to Dawson.  In Bennett, Trump and Levin opened the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel, which offered fine dining, lodging and sex in a sea of tents.  The Arctic was also originally housed in a tent, but demand for the hotel and restaurant grew until it occupied a two-story building.  One description of the Arctic said it offered excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett.  Others warned against respectable women going there to sleep as they were liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings – and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex.

The Arctic House was one of the largest and most extravagant restaurants in that region of the Klondike, offering fresh fruit and ptarmigan in addition to the staple of horse meat.  The Arctic was open 24 hours a day and advertised beds and scales for measuring gold dust.  The local Canadian Mounties were known to tolerate vice so long as it was conducted discreetly.

In 1900, a railroad between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon, was completed. Trump founded the White Horse Restaurant and Inn in White Horse.  They moved the building by barge, relocated on Front Street, and was soon operational.

The new restaurant, which included one of the largest steel ranges in the area, prepared 3,000 meals per day and had space for gambling.  Despite the enormous financial success, Trump and Levin began fighting due to Levin's drinking.  They broke up their business relationship in February 1901, but reconciled in April.  Around that time, the local government announced the suppression of prostitution, gambling and liquor, though the crackdown was delayed by businessmen until later that year.  In light of this impending threat to his business operation, Trump sold his share of the restaurant to Levin and left the Yukon.  In the months that followed, Levin was arrested for public drunkenness and sent to jail, and the Arctic was taken over by the Mounties.  The restaurant burned down in the White Horse fire of 1905.  Once again, in a situation that created many losers, Frederick Trump managed to emerge a winner.

Trump returned to Kallstadt in 1901 as a wealthy man and met Elisabeth Christ the daughter of a former neighbor; she was eleven years younger than Trump.  Trump's mother disapproved of Christ because she considered her family to be of a lower social class. 

Trump and Christ married on August 26, 1902, and moved to New York City.

In New York, Trump found work as a barber and a restaurant and hotel manager.  The couple lived at 1006 Westchester Avenue in the German-speaking Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx.  Due to his wife’s extreme homesickness, the family returned to Germany later that year.  In Germany, Trump deposited into a bank his life's savings of 80,000 marks, equivalent to $544,830 in 2020 money.

Soon after the family arrived in Germany, Bavarian authorities determined that Trump had emigrated from Germany to avoid his military-service obligations, and he was classified as a draft dodger.  On 24 December 1904 the Department of Interior announced an investigation to banish Trump from Germany.  Officially, they found that he had violated the law that punished emigration to North America to avoid military service with the loss of Bavarian and thus German citizenship.  In February 1905, a royal decree was issued ordering Trump to leave within eight weeks.  For several months, Trump petitioned the government to allow him to stay but he was unsuccessful.  He and his family returned to New York on 30 June 1905. 

In 1908, Trump bought real estate on Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven.  Two years later, he moved his family into the building on the land, renting out several rooms.  He also worked as a hotel manager at the Medallion Hotel on 6th Avenue and 23rd Street. Trump intended to continue buying more land, but during World War I he kept a low profile because of the pervasive Germanophobia in the US due to the war. 

Frederick died on May 29, 1918, one of the early cases of the Spanish flu, which caused millions of deaths around the world.  At his death his net holdings included a 2-story, 7-room home in Queens; 5 vacant lots; $4,000 in savings; $3,600 in stocks; and 14 mortgages.  Altogether his net worth was $31,359 ($588,207.86 in 2020 money).

1905-1999.  Father Fred Christ Trump

Fred was born on 11 October 1905, in the Bronx, New York.  His older sister, Elizabeth was born in 1904.  Fred’s younger brother, John, was born in 1907.  All three children were raised speaking German.  In September 1908, the family moved to Woodhaven, Queens.

Many details of Trump's childhood come from autobiographical accounts and emphasize independence, learning and, above all, hard work – even to the point of being somewhat fictionalized.  At the age of 10, Trump worked as a delivery boy for a butcher.  About two years later, his father died in the 1918 flu pandemic.  From 1918 to 1923, Fred attended Richmond Hill High School in Queens, while working as a caddy, curb whitewasher, delivery boy, and newspaper hawker.  Meanwhile, his mother continued the real estate business Fred had begun.  Interested in becoming a builder, Fred put up a garage for a neighbor and took night classes in carpentry and reading blueprints.  He also studied plumbing, masonry, and electrical wiring via correspondence courses.

After graduating in January 1923, Trump obtained full-time work pulling lumber to construction sites.  He continued his carpentry education and went on to be a carpenter's assistant.  Trump's mother loaned him $800 to build his first house, which he completed and sold in 1924.  By 1926, Trump had built 20 homes in Queens, selling some before they were finished to finance others.  Elizabeth Trump held the business in her name because Fred had not reached the age of majority.  The name E. Trump & Son appeared in advertising by 1924.  The company was incorporated in 1927. 

On Memorial Day in 1927, over a thousand Ku Klux Klan members marched in a Queens parade to protest Native-born Protestant Americans being assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City.  Twenty-one-year old Trump and six other men were arrested.  All seven were referred to as berobed marchers in the Long Island Daily Press.  Trump, detained on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so", was released and the charges dismissed.

The company grew to build and manage single-family houses in Queens, barracks and garden apartments for U.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards along the East Coast, and more than 27,000 apartments in New York City.  Trump was investigated by a U.S. Senate committee for profiteering in 1954.  On June 11, The New York Times included Trump on a list of 35 city builders accused of profiteering from government contracts.  In 1966, the State of New York investigated Fred Trump for windfall profiteering, this time by the 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. 

Fred Trump took every advantage of the FHA, established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Fred paid off politicians and city and state officials to get the contracts and the funding.  Often times, the amount of the grant exceeded the cost of the project.  The entire FHA program was restructured so that men like Fred could not game the system.

By 1936, Trump had 400 workers digging foundations for houses that would be sold at prices ranging from $3,000 to $6,250.

That same year, Fred married Mary McLeod after meeting her at a party.  They had five children.

Fred Trump was a teetotaler and an authoritarian parent, maintaining curfews and forbidding cursing, lipstick, and snacking between meals.  At the end of his day, Trump would receive a report from Mary on the children's actions and, if necessary, decide upon disciplinary measures.  He took his children to building sites to collect empty bottles to return for the deposits.

Fred Trump wanted his oldest son to be invulnerable in personality so he could take over the family business, but Fred Jr. was the opposite.  Trump instead elevated Donald to become his business heir, teaching him to be a killer, and telling him, You are a king. 

During the war and until the 1980s, Trump denied that he spoke German and claimed that he was of Swedish origin.  In a 1973 interview with The New York Times, he claimed to have been born in New Jersey.

Minority applicants turned away from renting Trump apartments complained to the New York City Commission on Human Rights and the Urban League, leading these groups to send test applicants to Trump-owned complexes in July 1972.  They found that white people were offered apartments, while black people were turned away (by being told there were no vacancies).  According to the superintendent of Beach Haven Apartments, this was at the direction of his boss.  Both of the aforementioned advocacy organizations then raised the issue with the Justice Department.  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.

One former employee testified that a code – which he believed was used throughout the Brooklyn branch of the company – classified people of color as low lifes such as blacks, Puerto Ricans, apparent drug users, or any other type of undesirable applicant.

The head of DoJ's housing division for the decree said it was one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated.  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.  Finally, it ordered the Trumps to acquaint themselves personally on a detailed basis with the Fair Housing Act.

In 1993, Fred was overheard talking about Donald and his wife Marla Maples as they departed for a flight, saying, I hope their plane crashes, because then all my problems will be solved.

Fred Trump died on June 25, 1999.

DONALD J TRUMP.  THE EARLY YEARS.  1946 TO 1976

1952.  Childhood.  At the age of 6, Donald marched in a KKK rally with his father, Fred.  It is not known if this was the only time Donald marched in a KKK parade, but it was certainly not the first time Fred did. 

Donald tortured his older brother Fred until Fred became an alcoholic. He stole Fred’s toys.  He said, You know, Dad’s really sick of you wasting your life.  Dad says he’s embarrassed by you and your failures.  Dad’s right about you, you’re nothing but a glorified bus driver (Fred was a pilot for TWA). 

1964.  Introduction into business.  At the age of 18, Donald began accompanying Fred as he made the rounds of the 27,000 apartments he owned.  There, Donald became an adept and beneficial partner, devising ways to get rid of the rent controlled apartments by introducing rats and having construction work done at three in the morning.  Eventually, Donald was able to get rid of 90% of those elderly people, some who had escaped the Nazi concentration camps during WWII, but could not escape Donald.

1966.  College.  Donald transferred from Fordham University to the University of Pennsylvania.  That, after his father donated three million dollars to the school.  Classmates at the Wharton School of the University claimed Trump rarely attended class and never took an exam, rather, paid others to do so for him.  Classmates said they believed Trump never read a book in his life.

A Penn admissions officer who interviewed Trump and ushered his application through the vetting process, which he says he did at the behest of Trump’s older brother, Fred Trump Jr.  That man spent a lot of time in those days at the Trump McMansion in Jamaica Estates.  He was working in Penn’s admissions department when Fred Jr. called in the favor.  Without the donation to the university by Fred Sr. and Fred Jr. asking the admissions officer to enroll Donald, he would never have gotten into the school.

It’s rare for a professor to disparage the intelligence of a student, but according to a source who was close friends with a professor who taught Donald, the friend said, I remember the inflection of his voice when he said it: ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’ He said, Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything, that he was arrogant and he wasn’t there to learn.

Donald bragged of going out with actress Candice Bergen.  He picked her up wearing a burgundy three-piece suit with burgundy patent leather boots, and he was in a burgundy limousine.  It was very color- coordinated, she recalled.  It was a short date; I was home by nine.  He was a douche bag.  I was home very early.  She stressed that there was no kiss, no physical contact whatsoever."

Penn has never had Trump deliver a commencement speech or conferred an honorary degree on him.  In the wake of his election, Penn tour guides were discouraged from bringing up the T-word and issued simple instructions for handling questions about Trump’s tenure at Penn: Keep it short and sweet.  Yes, he graduated from Wharton in 1968, and leave it at that.  Trump had pledged at least $1,480,500 between 1968 and 2007 to the University.  But he never followed through, never gave a dime.

Later, Donald ordered one of his lawyers to send letters to all the schools Trump attended.  The letter concludes four paragraphs of dire threats, including liability to the fullest extent of the law including damages and criminality for anyone who dares to reveal Trump’s grades.  P.S. Mr. Trump truly enjoyed his two years at your school and has great respect for the University.

DONALD TRUMP.  BUSINESSMAN.  1977 TO 2016

1977. First venture into Manhattan

One of Donald’s first big ventures was to transform the rundown Commodore Hotel into the grand Hyatt, then to erect the famous 68-story Trump tower out of the old Bonwitt Teller Building.

Trump hired the firm Kaszycki & Sons to clear the Bonwit Teller site.  Kaszycki & Sons was largely a window-washing firm with little experience in demolition.  Kaszycki brought in over 200 undocumented Polish workers who worked