Donald Trump’s KKK connections go back to dad Fred’s arrest at Klan riot in 1927
BY
Adam Edelman
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, February 28, 2016, 5:54 PM
Racism reportedly runs in the family, when it comes to the Trump Klan.
Trump’s late father, Fred Trump, was arrested following a Ku Klux Klan riot in Queens in 1927, according to a bombshell report that further suggests unusual ties between the 2016 front-runner and the notorious white supremacist group.
Fred Trump Sr. was among seven men arrested following a May 30, 1927 brawl between members of the KKK and the New York Police Department, according to The Washington Post, which unearthed news articles from the June 1, 1927 edition of The New York Times.
The fights that broke out in Queens occurred after 1,000 KKK members dressed in white hooded robes marched through the Jamaica neighborhood.
According to The Post, the address of the elder Trump from the arrest report matched the Jamaica address where he lived, according to a 1930 Census.
Trump, who was born in the Bronx to German immigrants, would have been 21 at the time of the arrest. He later became a wealthy real estate developer and died in 1999.
The purpose of the KKK march that day was to rally “Native-born Protestant Americans” who felt targeted by “Roman Catholic police of New York City,” according to a flier advertising the protest obtained by The Post.
"Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon," the flier stated, “when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language."
Reports of the elder Trump’s involvement in the incident initially surfaced last August on tech blog Boing Boing.
When asked to comment Sunday on the latest details surrounding the incident, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign sent a link to a story from September 2015 story in which the Republican mogul ardently rejected the report.
“He was never arrested. He has nothing to do with this. This never happened. This is nonsense and it never happened," Trump said about his father in the September 2015 article. "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."
The resurfacing of the report comes at an inopportune time for the bombastic billionaire, who last week received the endorsement of former KKK leader David Duke.
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