41.
“Trump Brief
III”
Pro Se “Slave Negro” (Petitioner) “Louis Charles Hamilton
II (USN) herein, affirm, state and fully declare all allegation, contention,
disputes, disputation, argument, conflict and disharmony, fully cause of action
as follows:
Pro
Se “Slave Negro” (Petitioner) “Louis Charles Hamilton II (USN) herein, “Until”
Direct Examination under “Video Deposition” Chief Defendant Donald John Trump,
Sr., herein before each of
His/her Honorable “World Justices” of The
Hague and Further documented 1000%facts Appearance Respectfully Presiding
“Justices”, as so much
Frederick Christ Trump, born
October 11th, 1905 “Woodhaven, New York, U.S. Dead at age 93 “June
25th 1999 New Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
Trump was
born on East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx, to German
immigrants Elizabeth (née Christ) and Frederick
Trump.
His father had emigrated to New
York City in 1885 from the small German town of Kallstadt, Palatinate where he briefly returned around
1900, married, and reemigrated.
Although
both of Trump's parents were born in Germany, Trump told friends and
acquaintances for decades after World
War II that the family was of Swedish origin. According to his nephew John
Walter,
"He had
a lot of Jewish tenants and it wasn't a good thing to be German in those days."
In 1927, at age 22, Fred Trump went into the real estate development and construction
business, forming Elizabeth Trump & Son Co. with his
mother Elizabeth Christ Trump, who was an active partner, writing the checks.
In the late
1920s Trump began building single-family houses in Queens, which were
sold for $3,990 each.
By the
mid-1930s in the middle of the Great
Depression, he helped pioneer the concept of supermarkets with the Trump
Market in Woodhaven, which advertised "Serve Yourself and Save!",
becoming an instant hit.
After only a
year Trump sold it for a tidy profit to the King
Kullen supermarket chain King
Kullen continues to operate in the Suffolk County area today.
During World
War II, Trump built barracks and garden apartments for U.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards along
the East Coast, including Chester, Pennsylvania, Newport News, Virginia, and Norfolk,
Virginia.
After the
war he expanded into middle-income housing for the families of returning
veterans, building Shore Haven in Bensonhurst
in 1949, and Beach Haven near Coney
Island in 1950 (a total of 2,700 apartments).
In 1963 he
built the 3,800-apartment Trump Village in Coney Island, competing with Lefrak
City in Queens.
Trump went
on to build and operate affordable rental housing via large apartment
complexes in New York City, including more than 27,000 low-income multifamily
apartments and row houses in the neighborhoods of Coney Island,
Bensonhurst,
Sheepshead
Bay, Flatbush, and Brighton
Beach in Brooklyn,
and Flushing and Jamaica
Estates in Queens.
In 1968 his
22-year-old son Donald Trump joined his company Trump Management Co.,
becoming president in 1974, and renaming it The Trump Organization in 1980. In
the mid-1970s he lent his son money, allowing him to go into the real estate
business in Manhattan,
While Fred stuck to Brooklyn and Queens.
"It was good for me," Donald later commented. "You know, being
the son of somebody, it could have been competition to me.
This way, I got Manhattan all to myself."
Although a
millionaire, Trump was known for his frugality, saving unused nails, doing his
own extermination work and mixing his own floor cleaners.
Nevertheless,
he insisted on buying a new navy blue Cadillac every three years, with license
plate "FCT".
By the time
of his death, Trump was estimated to have amassed a fortune worth $250 to $300
million.
In 1973, the
U.S. Justice
Department's Civil Rights Division filed a civil rights suit against the
Trump organization charging that it refused to rent to black people.
The Urban
League had sent black and white testers to apply for apartments in
Trump-owned complexes; the whites got the apartments, the blacks didn't.
According to
court records, four superintendents or rental agents reported that applications
sent to the central office for acceptance or rejection were coded by race.
A 1979 Village Voice article quoted a rental agent
who said Trump instructed him not to rent to black people and to encourage
existing black tenants to leave.
In 1975, a consent
decree described by the head of DOJ’s housing division as "one of the
most far-reaching ever negotiated," required Trump to advertise vacancies
in minority papers and list vacancies with the Urban League.
The Justice Department subsequently complained
that continuing "racially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has
occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to
the full enjoyment of equal opportunity."
On June 1,
1927, a New York Times article reported that a "Fred Trump"
was arrested and discharged after an incident with members of the Ku Klux
Klan turned into a brawl with Queens police.
The brawl
reportedly consisted of over 1,000 klansmen and
100 police officers, with Fred Trump being one of seven men arrested.
An internet
blog later rediscovered the article, and noted Trump would have been around the
age of twenty one.
It stated "this is not proof that Trump
senior—who would later go on to become a millionaire real estate developer—was
a member of the Ku Klux Klan or even in attendance at the event.
Despite
sharing lawyers with the other men, it's conceivable that he may have been an
innocent bystander, falsely named, or otherwise the victim of mistaken identity
during or following a chaotic event."
In 1936,
Trump married Scottish immigrant Mary Anne MacLeod (born May 10,
1912, Stornoway,
Scotland –
died August 7, 2000, New Hyde Park, New York). The couple had
five children:
Maryanne (born 1937), a federal appeals court
judge; Frederick "Fred" Jr. (1938–81); Elizabeth (born 1942), an executive at Chase Manhattan Bank; Donald
(born 1946); and Robert (born 1948), president of his father's property
management company.
Trump
suffered from Alzheimer's disease for six years. Before his
death he became sick with pneumonia in June 1999 at Long Island Jewish Medical Center
in New Hyde ParkAccording to a New York Times article
published in June 1927,
A man with the name and address of Donald
Trump's father was arraigned after Klan members attacked cops in Queens, N.Y.
In an article subtitled "Klan assails
policeman", Fred Trump is named in among those taken in during a late May
"battle" in which "1,000 Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a
free-for-all."
At least two officers were hurt during the
event, after which the Klan's activities were denounced by the city's Police
Commissioner, Joseph A. Warren.
“The
Klan not only wore gowns, but had hoods over their faces almost completely
hiding their identity,” Warren was quoted as saying in the article, which goes
on to identify seven men “arrested in the near-riot of the parade.”
Named alongside Trump are John E Kapp and
John Marcy (charged with felonious assault in the attack on Patrolman William
O'Neill and Sgt. William Lockyear), Fred Lyons, Thomas Caroll, Thomas Erwin, and
Harry J Free.
They
were arraigned in Jamaica, N.Y. All seven were represented by the same lawyers,
according to the article.
The final entry on the list reads: “Fred
Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Road, Jamaica, was discharged.”
In 1927, Donald Trump's father would have
been 21 years old, and not yet a well-known figure. Multiple sources report his
residence at the time—and throughout his life—at the same address According to American balladeer Woody Guthrie, well-known for his song
“This Land Is Your Land,” signed
his name to a lease for a Brooklyn apartment in December 1950. On that same
lease is the signature of a man the singer-songwriter would later deem a
“racist”: Fred Trump, father of the current Republican presidential
front-runner.
During Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s
properties, a public housing development called “Beach Haven,” his
relationship with the New York real estate tycoon inspired some of his most
bitter writings, which were recently discovered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the
Conversation reported Thursday.
Guthrie, who was no stranger to
the Communist movement in America, went on to write about how “Old Man Trump”
stirred up “racial hate.”
Following World War II, due to
the influx of servicemen to New York, affordable public housing became a
necessity. Among the first developers to seek a partnership with the
Federal Housing Authority was Fred Trump, who
would go on to make a fortune not only on the construction of the project, but
also through collecting rents on the property.
By 1954, the FHA had grown
suspicious of “Old Man Trump,” and a U.S. Senate committee opened an
investigation for profiteering off public contracts and overestimating his
“Beach Haven” building costs to around $3.7 million, according to the Daily Beast.
After Guthrie was already in the
midst of the lease, he discovered that, in his mind, Trump enthusiastically
embraced the FHA’s guidelines to steer clear of “inharmonious uses of housing,”
or, as biographer Gwenda Blair put it, “a code phrase for selling
homes in white areas to blacks.
”It is important to note that
such “restrictive covenants” were common among FHA contracts at the time.
However, it is Guthrie’s recently released writings about Trump that suggest
alleged “racist” tendencies.
In his writing, Guthrie lamented about “Beach
Havens,” a predominantly white neighborhood which he had started to refer to as
“Bitch Havens.”
According to the songwriter,
Trump propped-up ideologies that kept decent housing — both public and private
— out of reach for African-American citizens:
I suppose Old Man Trump knows just how
much racial hate he stirred up in the bloodpot of human hearts when he drawed
that color line here at his Eighteen hundred family project.
Guthrie’s writings about “Old Man
Trump” might not be so relevant had Republican presidential contender Donald
Trump not recently said how important his father’s legacy is to his own legacy.
“My legacy has its roots in my
father’s legacy,” candidate Trump said last year Later,
Guthrie, who died in 1967 of Huntington’s Disease, reworked his signature
ballad
“I Ain’t Got No Home” into a blistering attack against his landlord,
writing, “Beach Haven ain’t no home! …
Where no black ones come to roam! No, no, no!
Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain’t no home!”
In 1979, 12 years after Guthrie’s
death, Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett published an exposé about Fred and Donald Trump’s real estate empire,
In
which he dedicated a lot of time to investigating cases brought against the
Trumps in 1973 and 1978 by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice
Department.
The investigation showed that
Trump agents had participated in “racially discriminatory conduct” that
“created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity.”
But the most damning of evidence
came from some of Trump’s own employees, which Barrett summarized:
According to court records, four
superintendents or rental agents confirmed that applications sent to the
central [Trump] office for acceptance or rejection were coded by race.
Three doormen were told to
discourage blacks who came seeking apartments when the manager was out, either
by claiming no vacancies or hiking up the rents.
A super said he was instructed to send black
applicants to the central office but to accept white applications on site.
Another rental agent said that Fred Trump had instructed him not to rent to
blacks.
Further, the agent said Trump
wanted “to decrease the number of black tenants” already in the development “by
encouraging them to locate housing elsewhere.”
Possibly the most incriminating
writing from Guthrie was that the Trumps were “way ahead of God” because “God
don’t know much about any color lines.”
Out of all of Guthrie’s writings, one thing is clear: he was not fan of “Old Man Trump.”
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