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Multiple news accounts and family members have publicly said dementia has appeared in the Trump family — most repeatedly pointing to Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., who was reported to have Alz...
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’s father, Fred Trump Sr., was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1991 and experienced progressive cognitive decline before his death in 1999, a fact reported across multiple accounts a...
The available analyses converge on a consistent picture: multiple family members, journalists, and some court-related medical records indicate . Disagreement centers on the strength and formality of t...
No credible reporting found in the provided sources supports the dramatic claim that Donald Trump’s family “set up a fake office” and gave him “fake things to do” to keep him calm while he had dementi...
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...
Fred Trump Sr. is reported by several family members and media accounts to have shown , with some accounts saying a diagnosis occurred around 1991; however, public historical records and many standard...
Donald Trump’s relationship with his father, Fred Trump Sr., is portrayed in sources as both close and complex: Donald publicly called his father a “hero” and took over the family business in 1971, ye...
Donald Trump’s 1968 medical deferment for “bone spurs” remains contested: contemporaneous reporting and later accounts show a legitimate-seeming diagnosis on official Selective Service records, but la...
There is no corroborating reporting in the supplied sources that Melania Trump’s nephew assaulted a journalist; the closest items in the packet concern allegations about Donald Trump himself (the Nata...
The federal government sued Trump Management, Inc., Fred C. Trump, and Donald J. Trump in October 1973 under the Fair Housing Act alleging systematic exclusion of Black and Puerto Rican applicants; li...
Donald Trump has been recorded or credibly accused of *multiple* incidents that amount to disparaging people with disabilities across different years and contexts, including a widely circulated 2015 i...
Contemporary New York newspapers mentioned Fred C. Trump in the 1920s and 1930s primarily in two veins: local trade/promotion coverage of his early homebuilding and at least one policing report that l...
Allegations that Fred Trump engaged in racially discriminatory housing practices — including a 1973 Justice Department lawsuit against Trump Management covering 39 buildings and 14,000 apartments — ha...
Multiple Trump family members have publicly raised concerns about memory or cognitive issues in relatives: Mary Trump (niece) has repeatedly said she sees signs of cognitive decline in Donald Trump an...
The principal, well-documented legal fight among Trump family members centered on probate and inheritance litigation brought by Mary L. Trump and her brother Fred C. Trump III against trustees and exe...
Journalists and historians have repeatedly investigated and reported allegations that racist language and attitudes appear in the Trump family’s history, relying largely on family memoirs, contemporan...
Available reporting shows a mixed — often adversarial — emotional picture between Donald Trump and members of the Fred Trump branch of the family: some relatives describe reconciliation and financial ...
built a large -centered real-estate business by starting as a small homebuilder in the 1920s, expanding into speculative subdivision and row-house development, then using wartime contracts and federal...
Fred C. Trump’s housing practices from the 1950s through the 1970s are documented in contemporaneous government investigations, a landmark federal lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice, and hundre...