Donald Trump’s grandfather Friedrich Trump
ran a restaurant, bar, and brothel in British Columbia.
Buried in a ghost town in Canada’s subarctic are the
roots of the family fortune that paved Donald Trump’s path to prominence.
Only shards of glass bottles remain
on the lake shore in Bennett, British Columbia—remnants perhaps of the lively
establishment operated by Trump’s grandfather that was known for good food,
booze and ready women. A church sits further up the slope, its lonely spire
peeking out from a thicket of pines.
Bennett
was once a thriving transit point for prospectors in the Klondike gold rush at
the turn of the 20th century, and Friedrich Trump made a killing running a
restaurant and bar. The nest egg he generated in just two years grew into the
fortune that has supported his grandson’s bid for the U.S. presidency.
“Who
else can say that someone running for president of the United States of America
owes his fortune to your hometown?,” says Scott Etches, 55, a shop owner
hawking Trump t-shirts in Whitehorse, Yukon, about 100 kilometers (62 miles)
north of Bennett. “It doesn’t matter whether you support or oppose Trump. It’s
actually a great history.”
From bloomberg, read it HERE
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