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To: Honey_Bee who wrote (1086435)	9/3/2018 4:46:22 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mongo2116 Respond to of 1582747

What can you do when someone is as stupid as you. I'm not supposed to mention it?

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (1086435)

9/3/2018 4:56:09 PM

From: Brumar89

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Is the trade war with Canada really about Trudeau calling attention to Grampa Drumpf's whore houses?

Incidentally, the photo accompanying this article depicts a great moment of Trump being trolled by Trudeau. The gift being presented by Trudeau depicts an interesting aspect of Trump family history that Donald finds embarrassing, and certainly could not have appreciated being aired in a very public manner.

As it turns out, the Trump family can directly trace it's fortune to houses of prostitution built and operated by Donald's grandfather during the Yukon Gold Rush. In response to questions about the original wellspring of his families fortune, Trump denied the entire history.

The Trump family’s gold-rush story began when Fred, as he was known, left Germany at the age of 16 with little more than a suitcase...
...gold fever carried him to Bennett, where he and partner Ernest Levin built the Arctic Restaurant, which touted itself as the best-equipped in town.
It was open around the clock with “private boxes for ladies and parties,” according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899 edition of the Bennett Sun newspaper. The boxes typically included a bed and scale for weighing gold dust used to pay for “services,” ...

The town lost its allure with the construction of a railway link from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, allowing miners to bypass Bennett.

In response, Trump dismantled the restaurant and its precious lumber and rebuilt it in Whitehorse. A photo in Blair’s book shows a mustachioed Fred Trump in a white apron. He’s standing at the bar near a wall of drapes behind which women, known as “sporting ladies,” entertained miners in privacy.

Trump was a rich man when he left Whitehorse in 1901 to return to his native Kallstadt, Germany, where he later deposited savings of 80,000 marks in the village treasury, Blair recounts. Unable to regain German citizenship, he returned to New York with his riches. That amount—equivalent in purchasing power to about half a million euros in 2014—ended up funding the Trump family’s first residential real estate investments in the New York area, later carried on by his son Fred and grandson Donald.

Trump, who claims in his memoir that his grandfather was Swedish, told the New York Times in August that Blair’s portrayal of Friedrich’s business was “totally false.”

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Not the first time that a Trump and a Levin have teamed up. Would be wild if Gramps partner was Mark Levin's grandpa.