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Trump Family's Political Donations and Influence

The Trump family's political donations and influence in New York, particularly Fred Trump Sr.'s relationships with city politicians.

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Jan 30, 2026
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MARY TRUMP's description of cruelty at the hands of Fred Trump

portrays her grandfather, , as a deliberately cruel patriarch whose bullying, emotional neglect and zero-sum ethos warped the family and in particular damaged her father and her uncle , a thesis she l...

Jan 25, 2026
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How did Fred Trump Sr.'s real-estate business practices affect his children's careers and public controversies in the 1970s and 1980s?

built a large, largely -and--focused real‑estate empire and used its capital, connections, and management structures to seed his children into public roles and private wealth — most consequentially en...