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But this incident also brings to mind another report, unearthed in September by the technology blog Boing Boing.
On Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathisers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighbourhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested.
One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Road in Jamaica
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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
Botany
(70,581 posts)Donald Trump 'kept book of Adolf Hitler's speeches in his bedside cabinet'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-adolf-hitler-books-bedside-cabinet-ex-wife-ivana-trump-vanity-fair-1990-a7639041.html
Donald Trump reportedly owned a copy of Adolf Hitlers speeches and kept them in his bedside cabinet.
A 1990 Vanity Fair article about billionaire businessman stated that Mr Trumps then wife Ivana, said her husband owned a copy of My New Order a printed collection of the Nazi leaders speeches.
Marie Brenner, the articles author, wrote: Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, 'My New Order', which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.
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Mr Trump, however, denied he would ever read speeches given by Hitler, saying: If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."
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People like Bannon, Gorka,and Miller really do reflect Trump's thinkings.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Link to tweet
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Goonch
(3,614 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)At 70, Trump is the oldest American president to ever take office. Couple his age with a family history of dementia his father Fred developed Alzheimer's disease in his 80s and one could argue that the question of baseline cognitive testing for the U.S. head of state has taken on new relevance.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/17/514583390/as-our-leaders-live-longer-calls-for-presidential-dementia-testing-grow-louder