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The claim that Donald Trump’s father, Fred C. Trump, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan is by the available documentary record; contemporaneous reports show Fred Trump was detained at a 1927 Queens dist...
Donald Trump received a medical deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1968 for “bone spurs” in his heels, a fact reported in contemporary and retrospective coverage . Multiple lines of reporting and tes...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam era — four student deferments and a medical classification that ultimately kept him from service — a factual core confirmed across contem...
is an American national by birth: he was born in , on June 14, 1946, and official White House and historical biographies state his birthplace and parentage . His family background is of and Scottish d...
Public records and widely cited biographies consistently list Donald John Trump’s full name as Donald John Trump and his birthdate as June 14, 1946; most sources place his birthplace in Queens, New Yo...
avoided service in the -era draft through a combination of four college (student) deferments and a subsequent medical deferment for “,” a sequence confirmed by records and contemporary reporting . The...
The simple claim that “’s father was a Klansman” is not supported with definitive proof: contemporary newspapers list a “” among men arrested at a in , but historians and fact-checkers emphasize ambig...
Donald Trump’s parents were Fred C. Trump (commonly styled Fred Trump or Fred Trump Sr.) and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump; Fred was a New York real‑estate developer who built a residential-construction bus...
Barron William Trump is the only child of Donald J. Trump and Melania Trump; he was born March 20, 2006, and is the youngest of Donald Trump’s five children . His father is Donald J. Trump — real-esta...
Zohran Mamdani currently with his wife, according to reporting that summarizes his living situation prior to or at the moment he assumes mayoral duties. Media coverage also reports that he , but that ...
Aber Kawas is a Palestinian-American community organizer and activist in New York City who has worked with Arab and Muslim organizations since about 2010 and recently moved into electoral politics as ...
Donald J. Trump has officially changed his voter registration multiple times: first recorded as a Republican in New York in the late 1960s/1980s, then switching to the Independence/Reform Party in 199...
Aber Kawas is a Palestinian‑American community organizer and advocacy specialist who has worked with Arab and Muslim organizations in New York and who, according to multiple reports, received endorsem...
Fred Trump’s real estate practices generated major controversies, most notably a 1973 federal lawsuit alleging systematic racial discrimination in housing that resulted in a consent decree requiring c...
Multiple contemporaneous and later news accounts report that Fred Trump was among several men detained after a violent Memorial Day weekend clash involving a Ku Klux Klan parade in Queens in 1927. The...
Multiple publicly available biographies, government-facing summaries, and archival references cite his birth in Queens, New York, with the date June 14, 1946, though some discussions note that a forma...
The record shows Donald Trump received a medical deferment in 1968 for "bone spurs" in his heels that disqualified him from the Vietnam draft (reported in multiple outlets) and that in late 2018 the N...
Fred Trump built a real-estate empire centered on building and managing thousands of housing units in New York, expanding from single-family homes to large apartment portfolios and wartime housing pro...
Donald J. Trump was born in Queens, New York, in 1946 and, under the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment and the prevailing nationality statutes that incorporated it, was a United States citizen at bi...
Donald Trump’s paternal ancestors trace to Kallstadt in the Palatinate (then Bavarian) region of Germany: his grandfather Friedrich (Friederich/Frederick) Trump was born there in 1869 and emigrated to...