A constant stream of strangers lined up at their house in Baltimore’s Little Italy, seeking food and help. Because walls work.”Where the D’Alesandros saw the downtrodden and immigrants as people to weave into the American dream, the Trumps saw suckers to squeeze. According to The Times’s blockbuster tax investigation, Fred lavished Donald with three trust funds and $10,000 Christmas checks. Fred Trump was hauled before a congressional panel investigating whether he had looted government money through fraud. But when Howard Stern had Donald, Ivanka and Don Jr. on his show in 2006 and asked them a multiplication question, they were all stumped.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2019 19:41 UTC