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  1. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    But Friedrich's departure ran afoul of German law. A three-year stint of military service was mandatory, and to emigrate, boys of conscription age had to get permission. The young barber didn't do so, resulting in a questionable status that would undermine any future prospect of return: Friedrich Trump was an illegal emigrant. Luckily, US officials didn't care about the circumstances under which he left Germany. US immigration law at the time granted Germans preferred status; they were viewed as having the proper white European ethnic stock and an industrious nature.
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  2. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    Many rich men don't allow their wives to come to their office. Many women don't know what their husbands do.
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  3. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    NORMA FOERDERER, TRUMP'S LONGTIME aide, rushed into the boss's office on the twenty-sixth floor of Trump Tower. The helicopter that carried the three executives had gone down. Agonizing minutes went by. Then a New Jersey police official called with the news: no survivors. Three of Trump's most trusted aides, including the ones most responsible for opening the Taj, had perished, along with the crew of two. Trump would later learn that the scrape on one of the rotor blades had expanded during the flight, the result of metal fatigue. Over the pinelands of New Jersey, at an altitude of twenty-two hundred feet, a portion of the blade broke, the helicopter's aerodynamics went askew, and the aircraft split apart in midair, raining wreckage on the Garden State Parkway. Trump
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  4. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    People were always asking him who the real Donald Trump was-was the bombastic, boastful billionaire he played in the media merely a character designed to enhance his business? They didn't get it, he insisted. He was exactly what he presented to the public: a man of business, in it for himself, in it to win. He
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  5. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    Though he would later become known for the catchphrase "You're fired," Trump usually felt uneasy getting rid of an employee. If it had to be done, he would rather delegate the task to an underling. "We always felt that if you were close enough to Donald that he would have to be the one to let you go, you had a job for life," Res said. In
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  6. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    Trump had this urge to be a really big name, so he cultivated celebrity. But his lifestyle was surprisingly unglamorous. He's quite disciplined in some ways. Doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, lives above the store. He was not a big New York socialite, never was. He basically enjoyed going upstairs and watching the tube. What he was interested in was celebrity and his businesses-construction, real estate, gambling, wrestling, boxing." •
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  7. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    Trump had asserted to the Times that he was worth "more than $200 million," even though a year earlier, Penn Central negotiators had estimated the Trump family holdings at about $25 million, all of it under Fred's control. In December 1976, a month after that article appeared, Fred Trump opened eight trusts for his children and grandchildren and transferred in $1 million each. Over the next five years, Donald would reap about $440,000 in income from that trust alone. Despite
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  8. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    One Trump tenant disturbed by the de facto segregation was the Oklahoman Woodrow Wilson Guthrie-or Woody, as the folksinger was known. He had moved to New York City in 1940, the same year he wrote one of the nation's most revered ballads, "This Land Is Your Land." Ten years later, he had moved to Beach Haven, the Trump complex a few blocks from the Coney Island beachfront. Guthrie later wrote a number of verses that suggested Fred Trump was responsible for steering blacks away from the property: "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.
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  9. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    Despite his doubts, Fred came through, pledging his own equity toward his son's success-an early sign that although the father himself had no interest in taking on Manhattan, he would stand by his son, helping him at key moments in the formative years of Donald's career. Fred would also personally back construction loans from Manufacturers Hanover Trust, guaranteeing that the bankers would be paid even if Donald's venture collapsed. For
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  10. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    To Trump, winning was always paramount. "If I don't win, what have I done?
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  11. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    Freddy left the business and went to work as a pilot with Trans World Airlines. At age twenty-three, he married a stewardess, and the couple had two children, Fred and Mary. Freddy seemed far happier than he had been under his father; Donald, however, couldn't help but pick on Freddy's run-of-the-mill ambitions, asking him, "What's the difference between what you do and driving a bus?
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  12. Michael Kranish _ Trump Revealed: An American

    Separately, Trump said, "I'm the least racist person that you've ever interviewed."}
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