News about Fred Trump

Former US president Donald Trump has declared the Scottish are 'great, tough people' and 'good fighters' while opening up about his mother and father. The American politician - who served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021 - is one of five children born to Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. His mother was a Scottish immigrant and she was just 18 when she first arrived in New York, travelling from the island of Lewis in search of domestic work. The former president, 78, reconnected with his Scottish ancestry by owning two golf clubs in Aberdeenshire. This week, he announced he is opening a second golf course, transforming that 18-hole resort into 'the greatest 36 holes on earth'.

The family feud exploded on the public stage on Tuesday after Eric uploaded a scathing post to X describing Fred Trump III as a freeloader. Fred Trump, 61, launched a slew of allegations at his uncle in the book 'All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got this Way'.

David Hilliard, the former Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, said Trump is a 'decent man' and is 'not racist.' He claimed to have met Trump while he was a college student in New York and said the former president 'owned all of Harlem.' Trump and his father Fred had a discrimination lawsuit filed against their real estate company in 1973 that alleged African-Americans and Puerto Ricans were systematically excluded from apartments.

A day after Trump ordered a gag prohibiting remarks at witnesses, court employees, and family members, Trump got off on New York judge Juan Merchan. Trump called the gag "un-American" and a violation of his First Amendment rights, and he brought up his daughter's work as a political consultant for a network of Democratic clients. He said that his daughter shared a picture of him behind bars, but that information could not be verified right away.

Judge Juan Merchan suspended the order on Trump just hours after Trump branded him a 'Trump Hater,' while still going after his daughter over her work with an online advocacy company. Trump made a 'threatening, inflamatory, denigrating' remark, according to him. Alvin Bragg, a Texas attorney, requested the gag, citing Trump's long history of going after court employees.

Per Deadline, Martin Donovan has been chosen to play Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump Sr. The project began late last year in Toronto, and the 66-year-old actor was briefly seen on set stepping into the shoes of Donald's late father last month. Donovan is no stranger to the big screen, and he is best known for his appearances in films such as Trust (1990) and The Book Of Life (1998). He has appeared in television series including Ghost Whisperer and Weeds.

On Thursday, Sebastian Stan was hard at work filming his Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice in Toronto. On the cold Canadian day, the 41-year-old Avengers: Endgame actor was seen shooting what seemed to be a funeral scene at a cemetery. Standing next to his costar Maria Bakalova, 27, who was first photographed on set late last month, he was surrounded by tall headstones.

Weisselberg was charged in July 2021 with a slew of financial fraud involving his and the company's tax avoidance by failing to reveal nearly $2 million in lavish gifts over the years. Despite months of pressure to change his boss, the long-serving Trump associate instead received a prison term of 100 days, a fraction of the 15 years he might have earned if he had a narrower account of the tax fraud scheme that saw him drive around with high-end cars, apartments, and tuition for his children. Prosecutors may request a harsher sentence if he does not appear in court.

After reaching an extraordinary plea bargain that would sentence him to five months in jail but only 100 days, former President Donald Trump's longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg appeared in court on Thursday. The plea, first announced Wednesday night, would not ask Weisselberg to testify against his longtime boss, whose father, Fred Trump, first brought him into the organization that would propel Donald Trump to the White House. However, it will require him to testify about a variety of 'off the books' company practices, tax, and financial crimes, as well as providing insight to the company operated by Trump and his adult children. A judge is likely to sentence him to five months in jail. However, reports predict he will serve as little as 100 days in jail as a result of good conduct. Weisselberg, 75, is set to enter his plea before New York state Justice Juan Merchan in Manhattan. The New York Times announced the details of his plea bargain on Wednesday. The former executive who served in the White House with Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., will have to confess to all 15 felonies charged with him, as well as Eric Trump, Jr., who was charged with lavish corporate compensation.

Allen Weisselberg, Donald Trump's long-serving financial chief, is expected to plead guilty on Thursday in a deal that will require him to testify against the former president's firm. Weisselberg, who was facing up to 15 years in prison, would spend as little as 100 days in jail, according to The New York Times. It does not require Weisselberg to turn on Trump himself.