To all those who still want to pound on Warren for her family history that turned out to be legend--

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10. Here's The Trump Family History (Bookmark This For Next Time Pocahontas Comes Up)

Trump’s grandfather, born Friedrich Drumpf, left Bavaria as a poor, unemployed barber in steerage class to avoid military service in 1885. A resourceful immigrant with no English, he quickly made his fortune providing quarters for gold hunters in the Yukon Territory red light districts.

Now rich, he attempted to leave America to return to Bavaria after meeting his German wife there: “We are loyal Germans and stand behind the high kaiser and the mighty German Reich,” he wrote. He was refused for dodging the draft when he left the first time and was kicked out of Germany with his wife and unborn son, Fred Trump, who was later born in Queens.

Fred Trump, Trump's father, would go on to be arrested in 1927 at a KKK rally on Memorial Day as a "berobed marcher" who refused to disperse. He would go on to build a real estate empire notorious for two things A) profiteering off government-sponsored FHA loans with his mafia-linked partner (ultimately getting called out by the Eisenhower administration) and B) refusing to rent to African Americans. In fact, one-time tenant Woody Guthrie wrote two songs about him, including this nugget: "Beach Haven looks like heaven/ Where no black ones come to roam! / No, no, no! Old Man Trump! /Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!"

Rather than rent to Aftrican-Americans, Fred Trump targeted the rising middle class of Jews in Queens and Brooklyn. Many of them were Holocaust survivors and their families who, understandably, did not want to rent or buy their property from a German. And so Fred Trump lied to their faces and told them he was Swedish.

According to Trump's cousin, John Walter, the lie was directly intended by Fred Trump to enrich the family: "He had thought, ‘Gee whiz, I’m not going to be able to sell these homes if there are all these Jewish people.’”

When working on “The Art of the Deal” in the mid-1980s, Walter relates that Donald Trump asked his father about the decades-long family deception: “Do I have to do this Swedish thing?” The answer can be found in the book where it states that his grandfather “came here from Sweden as a child.”

A 1984 cover story in The New York Times Magazine, a blown-up cardboard copy of which Donald Trump kept in his NYC office, also asserted that “the family is of Swedish descent.” Although Donald Trump had been confronted about the deception, his father’s 1999 obituary in The Daily News called him the son of “a Swedish immigrant father.”

Meanwhile, on a related note, Donald Trump was made a landlord from the time he was 3-years-old and was a millionaire by age 8 from his salary and various other tax-evading gifts from his father. Ultimately, Trump - who collapsed virtually every business he ever touched - received $413 million (adjusted for inflation) from his father's real estate empire over his lifetime, largely while avoiding any inheritance taxes.

Through an astounding variety of schemes to avoid such taxes, Fred Trump cheated the government out of half a billion dollars in taxes.

The "Swedish" Fred Trump was so active in Jewish and Israeli causes that some even believed that he was himself Jewish. This including donating the land for the Beach Haven Jewish Center in Flatbush, New York, supporting Israel Bonds, and serving as the treasurer of an Israel benefit concert featuring American easy-listening performers. During the 1980s, Fred Trump became friends with future Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, who at the time was the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations in Manhattan.

One of Fred Trump's tenants was a Jewish doctor who agreed to diagnose Donald Trump with bone spurs "as a favor" to help him avoid service in Vietnam after he could no longer defer using his Ivy League schooling.
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In short, Donald Trump inherited $413 million from his father by knowingly lying to Holocaust survivors and their families. How much did Warren profit from believing her parents?