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[Kasumi]

In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan riot in New York

PUBLISHED : Monday, 29 February, 2016, 8:50am
UPDATED : Monday, 29 February, 2016, 9:16am

The Washington Post

Fred Trump, the late father of Republican presidential candidate Donald TRump. Photo: Wikipedia

A furore over former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke’s praise for Donald Trump has brought back into the spotlight an incident from nearly 90 years ago, in which Trump’s father was arrested at a Klan riot in New York.

In September, the technology blog Boing Boing reported that 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 Rd in Jamaica.

This is Donald Trump’s father. Trump had a brother named Fred, but he wasn’t born until more than a decade later. The Fred Trump at Devonshire Road was the Fred C. Trump who lived there with his wife, according to the 1930 Census.

The predication for the Klan to march, according to a flier passed around Jamaica beforehand, was that “Native-born Protestant Americans” were being “assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City.” “Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon 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.”

It’s not clear from the context what role Fred Trump played in the brawl. The news article simply notes that seven men were arrested in the “near-riot of the parade,” all of whom were represented by the same lawyers. No doubt to the chagrin of those in the Klan, the seven faced a Roman Catholic judge.

When news of the old report surfaced last year, Donald Trump vehemently denied his father’s arrest. “He was never arrested. He has nothing to do with this. This never happened. This is nonsense and it never happened,” he said to the Daily Mail. “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.”

 

[Kasumi]

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[Kasumi]

Donald Trump brands 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square a ‘riot’

PUBLISHED : Friday, 11 March, 2016, 7:12pm
UPDATED : Friday, 11 March, 2016, 8:45pm

Agence France-Presse

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

US Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump has referred to the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square as a “riot”.

The outspoken billionaire made the remark during a televised debate late on Thursday when asked about the student-led protests and subsequent government crackdown.

Specifically, CNN moderator Jake Tapper wanted Trump’s response to critics who had expressed concern about previous Tiananmen comments Trump reportedly made to Playboy magazine in 1990.

“About China’s massacre of pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square, you’ve said: ‘When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it, then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.’ How do you respond?” Tapper asked.

Trump said the comments didn’t mean he had endorsed what happened.

“I was not endorsing it. I said that is a strong, powerful government that put it down with strength,” he said.

“And then they kept down the riot. It was a horrible thing. It doesn’t mean at all I was endorsing it.”

Hundreds reportedly died after the Communist Party sent tanks in June 1989 to crush demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in the Chinese capital, where student-led protesters had staged a peaceful sit-in to demand democratic reforms.

Ohio Governor John Kasich, meanwhile, did not mince words when he weighed in on what had transpired in Tiananmen Square.

“I think that the Chinese government butchered those kids,” the fellow White House hopeful said on the debate stage.

“And when that guy stood in front – that young man stood in front of that tank, we ought to build a statue of him over here when he faced down the Chinese government,” he added in reference to the famous image of a lone man who confronted a row of tanks.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Even if trump's enemies can prove he is an alien from another galaxy it wouldn't matter.....trump is marching on the the Oval Office regardless

 

[Kasumi]

Sexual assault allegations against Trump resurface as Super Tuesday nears

A dropped 1997 lawsuit alleged that Trump groped and tried to rape woman, who says she still stands by the allegations

PUBLISHED : Friday, 26 February, 2016, 8:10am
UPDATED : Friday, 26 February, 2016, 8:10am

The Guardian

Donald Trump, pictured in the 1990s with a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her and trying to rape her in 1993 . The image was posted by the woman to her website. Photo: SCMP Picture

As he attempts to make his lead in the Republican presidential race unassailable at next week’s Super Tuesday primary contests, Donald Trump is being confronted with resurfaced allegations that he sexually assaulted and tried to rape a woman in the early 1990s.

The woman alleged in a federal lawsuit in 1997 that Trump violated her “physical and mental integrity” when he touched her intimately without consent after her boyfriend went into business with him, leaving her “emotionally devastated [and] distraught”.

The woman dropped the US$125m lawsuit in Manhattan the following month. It coincided with a separate legal dispute between Trump and the woman’s then-boyfriend over an alleged breach of contract relating to their beauty pageant business venture. Trump claimed at the time that the lawsuit alleging assault was aimed at pressuring him to settle the other dispute, which reportedly he did for a six-figure sum later that year.

On Wednesday, Trump’s counsel Michael Cohen told a reporter for Mail Online that there was “no truth” to the lawsuit’s allegations. “The plaintiff in the matter ... would acknowledge the same,” Cohen was quoted as saying.

Yet when asked by the Guardian whether she stood by the allegations detailed in the lawsuit, the woman said in a text message: “Yes”. The woman, now a successful makeup artist in New York, declined to discuss the allegations in detail.

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at Regents University in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

Cohen and a spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign did not respond to several requests from the Guardian for comment.

Potentially confusing matters further, the woman appears to now be a supporter of Trump’s campaign for the White House. She told the website Law Newz this week that she would be voting for Trump. “I saw him [Donald] recently, and he said I looked good,” the website reported her as saying. “I have nothing but good things to say about Donald.”

Before her lawsuit was unearthed by the legal news website this week, the woman’s public Facebook page displayed photographs of her with Trump and posts favourable to the property developer and reality television personality. These were no longer visible after Wednesday, although a photo of Trump with his arm around the woman could be seen on her company website.

She accused Trump of “outrageous conduct” in her April 1997 lawsuit, which she filed when she was 34. She alleged that Trump had forced her into a bedroom at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, following a business meeting in January 1993 and “subjected [her] to [Trump’s] unwanted sexual advances, which included touching of [her] private parts in an act constituting attempted ‘rape’”, the lawsuit stated. Trump then implied she should “keep her mouth shut”, she alleged. As she tried to leave, Trump again touched her sexually and made “Svengali-type proclamations of ‘love’”, she said, prompting her to vomit.

She alleged that the same month, during a telephone call supposed to be about the business venture, Trump told her that if she slept with him she “would be an awakened woman” and that he “was the best lover you’ll ever have”. Her lawsuit also named two male business associates of Trump as defendants. They “condoned and participated” in Trump’s harassment, she alleged.

The alleged assault followed what she said was Trump’s first attempt to touch her “intimate private parts” during a dinner meeting on 12 December 1992, where he also introduced her to associates as his “new girlfriend”. She alleged that the following month, during a party at the Palm Beach estate, Trump placed his hand “up [her] thigh” in another attempt to touch her intimately, before going further during the forced encounter later in January.

The woman claimed Trump began harassing her after becoming a partner in the American Dream Festival, which comprised a beauty pageant and other competitions. The festival, which the woman worked for, was devised and led by her then-boyfriend, whom she married in 1995, although they are no longer together.

During their first meeting over the business venture, the woman alleged in the lawsuit, Trump asked her boyfriend: “Are you sleeping with her?” and “demanded to know whether it was ‘just for the night or what?” Trump allegedly said to him at one point: “You know, there’s going to be a problem. I’m very attracted to your girlfriend.”

Around the time of the alleged assault and afterwards, Trump repeatedly pestered her with telephone calls demanding sex, she claimed, telling her she was “the most beautiful girl in the whole world” and saying that he wanted to have sex with her “whenever I was ready”.

The woman accused Trump and his associates of using the American Dream Festival as a vehicle for seeking sex from women. At one stage, she alleged, Trump asked that she “provide [Trump] with access to a 17-year-old Czech contestant whom he described as a ‘sex object’”. At another point Trump “made denigrating, lewd comments about all women in general as ‘sex objects’”, according to the woman.

The lawsuit claimed that weeks earlier in 1997, during a mediation session for the separate contractual dispute over the American Dream Festival, Trump publicly referred to the woman as a “great piece of ass”.

In a report that year in the New York Daily News, Trump was quoted as saying that her lawsuit “was a desperate attempt to get me to settle” the separate contractual dispute. A later report said a settlement was reached in July and that she and her husband attended a party at Trump’s Florida estate to celebrate his separation from his wife Marla Maples.

 

[Kasumi]

Anonymous attacks Trump Towers website

Angela Moon and Eleanor Whalley
December 12, 2015, 8:46 am

The website for Trump Towers, the Manhattan skyscraper owned by real-estate mogul and Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, has been attacked by activist hacking group Anonymous, which disabled it for a time in protest at his anti-Muslim comments.

The website for the 68-storey Trump Towers (trumptowerny.com), often used for his presidential campaign, was down on Friday after a tweet from an account associated with the anonymous hacking collective that said: "Trump Towers NY site taken down as statement against racism and hatred.www.trumptowerny.com/(what you see is cloudflare offline backup)"

Earlier this week a handle claiming to be "Anonymous Operations" posted a video on YouTube with the message: "The more the United States appears to be targeting Muslims, not just radical Muslims, you can be sure that ISIS will be putting that on their social media campaign."

The post added, "Donald Trump think twice before you speak anything. You have been warned Mr. Donald Trump."

 

[Kasumi]

Rivals pounce as Trump fails to denounce KKK, after endorsement from white supremacist

PUBLISHED : Monday, 29 February, 2016, 9:11am
UPDATED : Monday, 29 February, 2016, 9:12am

Associated Press in Leesburg, Virgina

A caucus-goer confronts men dressed as Ku Klux Klan members outside the Cimarron-Memorial High School caucus location during the Nevada Republican presidential caucus in Las Vegas last Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.Photo: Bloomberg

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is drawing criticism for refusing to simply denounce an implicit endorsement from a white supremacist leader, with his main rivals, senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, using the matter to hammer the billionaire businessman just two days before multiple state primaries could put him on an irreversible path to the party’s nomination.

Trump was asked Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union whether he rejected support from David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, and other white supremacists after Duke told his radio followers this week that a vote against Trump was equivalent to “treason to your heritage”.

“Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke. OK?” Trump told host Jake Tapper. “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.”

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump stands near his plane while attending a rally during a campaign stop at the airport in Millington, Tennessee, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

Trump was asked Friday by journalists how he felt about Duke’s support. He said he didn’t know anything about it and curtly said: “All right, I disavow, ok?”

Trump hasn’t always claimed ignorance on Duke’s history. In 2000, he wrote a New York Times op-ed explaining why he abandoned the possibility of running for president on the Reform Party ticket. He wrote of an “underside” and “fringe element” of the party, concluding, “I leave the Reform Party to David Duke, Pat Buchanan and Lenora Fulani. That is not company I wish to keep.”

Trump’s comments sparked a wave of censures just ahead of Super Tuesday — March 1 — when 11 states hold Republican primaries. At stake are 595 delegates to the party’s national convention this summer, with 1,237 needed to win the nomination.

On the Democratic side, 865 delegates are up for grabs in Super Tuesday contests in 11 states and American Samoa. It takes 2,383 delegates to gain the Democratic nomination.

Hillary Clinton received another burst of momentum after her lopsided victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary on Saturday, fueled by an 84-16 advantage among African-Americans, a key Democratic constituency that will also play a dominant role in several Super Tuesday states.

“We got decimated, that’s what happened,” Sanders said on ABC, though he promised to continue his campaign against what he describes as a political and economic oligarchy.

The latest shake up in the Republican race comes as attention shifts to the South, with about a half dozen states in the region holding contests on Tuesday. Trump holds commanding leads across the region, with the exception of Cruz’s home state of Texas, a dynamic that puts tremendous pressure on Rubio and Cruz as they try to outlast each other and derail Trump.

Campaigning in Virginia, Rubio pounced on Trump’s latest position on Duke, shifting to a more serious tone after spending the weekend mocking his rival’s hair and “the worst spray tan in America.”

“We cannot be a party who refuses to condemn white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan,” the Florida senator told thousands of supporters gathered in Leesburg, Virginia. “Not only is that wrong, it makes him unelectable. How are we going to grow the party if we nominate someone who doesn’t repudiate the Ku Klux Klan?”

Cruz also weighed in on Sunday, calling Trump’s comments “Really sad.”

“You’re better than this,” Cruz wrote. “We should all agree, racism is wrong, KKK is abhorrent.”

Democrat Bernie Sanders also lashed out at his Republican rival on Twitter, writing: “America’s first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK.”

Trump also garnered backlash Sunday for recently retweeting a quote from Benito Mussolini, the 20th century fascist dictator of Italy, which reads: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”

Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, “I know who said it. But what difference does it make whether it’s Mussolini or somebody else? It’s certainly a very interesting quote.”

Like Clinton, Trump has established himself as the front-runner after winning three of the four early voting contests. That’s led Rubio and Cruz, both first-term senators, to unleash a personal and policy-based barrage against Trump, warning his nomination would be catastrophic for the Republican Party in the November election and beyond.

“We’re about to lose the conservative movement to someone who’s not a conservative and [lose] the party of Lincoln and Reagan to a con artist,” Rubio said Sunday on Fox News.

 

[Kasumi]

Trump threatens to pull $1 billion investment if he is banned from UK

Reuters
January 7, 2016, 10:47 pm

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Lowell, Massachusetts in this January 4, 2016, file photo. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Files . SAP is the sponsor of this coverage which is independently produced by the staff of Reuters News Agency.

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has threatened to cancel over 700 million pounds ($1 billion) of planned investments in golf courses in Scotland if Britain slaps him with a travel ban.

The threat from Trump, owner of two golf courses in his mother's homeland of Scotland, comes as British lawmakers prepare to hold a debate on a petition signed by over half a million people calling for him to be barred from the country after his proposal to stop Muslims entering the United States.

The debate will be held on Jan. 18 but will not be followed by a vote. Only Home Secretary Theresa May can issue an order banning entry into Britain and Prime Minister David Cameron has said he does not favour barring Trump.

The Trump Organisation said in a statement that a ban would result in him pulling developments worth 500 million pounds at a golf complex in northeastern Scotland, and a 200 million pound revamp at a resort in the country's southwest.

"Any action to restrict travel would force The Trump Organization to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom," the group said in a statement.

Trump's comments on banning Muslims from entering the United States in December prompted international outrage and led to him being stripped of two Scottish honorary positions.

The proud, half-Scottish billionaire's once-harmonious relationship with Scotland was soured further when he was blocked by a top court in his bid to stop a wind farm being built near his Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeen.

(Reporting by Sarah Young; editing by Stephen Addison)

 

[Kasumi]

Saudi prince calls Trump a 'disgrace'

AAP
December 12, 2015, 9:43 pm

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has called Donald Trump a disgrace to the United States following his call for a ban on Muslims entering the country, and demanded the Republican front-runner withdraw from the US presidential race.

Trump triggered an international uproar when he made his comments in response to last week's deadly shootings in California by two Muslims who authorities said were radicalised.

"You are a disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America," Prince Alwaleed, the chairman of Kingdom Holding, said on his Twitter account, addressing Trump and referring to the Republican Party.

"Withdraw from the US presidential race as you will never win," the prince added.

Within hours, Trump's response came back, also on Twitter.

"Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal wants to control our US politicians with daddy's money," he said. "Can't do it when I get elected."

Trump's comments have already cost him business in the Middle East, with a major chain of department stores halting sales of his glitzy "Trump Home" line of lamps, mirrors and jewellery boxes.

On Thursday, Dubai real estate firm Damac, which is building a $US6 billion ($A8.23 billion) golf complex with Trump, stripped the property of his name and image.

Prince Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Salman, has holdings in a number of international companies, including Twitter and Citigroup. In July he said he will donate $US32 billion to charity in coming years via Alwaleed Philanthropies.

 

[blueRad]

My respect grew for him when he said to beat up hecklers at his rally. It's been a while since anyone done it the old fashioned way.

 

[Wayne Piew]

 

[JHolmesJr]

He must have the gop shitting their pants if theyve recruited boing boing for a hatchet job.

 

[SkinTrade]

Trump should get PeeR in SG......LOL

 

[Kasumi]

Anonymous collective declares ‘total war’ on Donald Trump, again

Hackers target ‘deeply disturbing’ presidential candidate and ask for support to dismantle his campaign and expose private details

Anonymous declares war on Donald Trump, again. Photograph: Action Press / Rex Features

Samuel Gibbs
Tuesday 15 March 2016 19.09 GMT

The hacking collective Anonymous has vowed once again to “dismantle” Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and to “expose what he doesn’t want the public to know”.

The group announced its re-engagement of “OpTrump” through its traditional propaganda video, aiming to take down one of Trump’s property websites for Chicago on 1 April.

[video=youtube;Ciavyc6bE7A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciavyc6bE7A[/video]

Anonymous declares war on Donald Trump.

Anonymous said: “We have been watching you for a long time and what we’ve seen is deeply disturbing. You don’t stand for anything but your personal greed and power.

“This is a call to arms. Shut down his websites, research and expose what he doesn’t want the public to know. We need you to dismantle his campaign and sabotage his brand.”

Anonymous last declared war on Trump at the end of 2015 in response to Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US. At the time the group took down the website of New York’s Trump Tower using a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) that overwhelms a site’s servers using bogus traffic.

Whether this renewed effort by Anonymous will have a greater impact on Trump and his campaign for the US presidential elections is unclear. But the collective is urging everyone to support their campaign saying “you do not need to know how to hack to support this operation”.

“This is a declaration of total war. OperationTrump engaged.”

Trump has been the target of several hacking groups, allegedly leaking personal information, voicemail messages and attacking his various sites, all of which have had little effect on his popularity.

 

[no_faith]

For personal greed and power, who dont harbour such thoughts?
But ban dig m&d, wrong meh?

 

[AnonOps]

Looking to dig out more skeletons from his closet.

 

[AnonOps]

For personal greed and power, who dont harbour such thoughts?
But ban dig m&d, wrong meh?

He should stick with his playboy mags

 

[JurgenKlopp]

For personal greed and power, who dont harbour such thoughts?
But ban dig m&d, wrong meh?

Loser PL team is going to be trophy less later today, what do u think?

 

[Sauron]

He looks a loser to me

 

[harimau]

A man should lead the country, not woman. He maybe an asshole but at least he speaks his mind. Unlike this one. You dunno what she is thinking.