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Oct 29, 2019 · By AMANDA SEITZ. Published 1:12 PM PDT, October 29, 2019. CLAIM: Picture shows Mary and Fred Trump, wearing Ku Klux Klan robes, standing with son Donald Trump in 1999. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The photo, which was taken of Trump with his parents in 1992, has been altered. THE FACTS: The manipulated photo, edited to make it appear Trump’s ...
Oct 9, 2019 · KKK robes have been digitally inserted over Fred and Mary Trump’s regular clothing, and the background has been simplified. It also appears to have been flipped. Shutterstock and another stock photo website also date the image back to the early 90s – not 1999, as the Facebook post claims.
- Elias Atienza
Mar 10, 2016 · Versions of this story emerged last September when Boing Boing dug up an old New York Times article from May of 1927 that listed a Fred Trump among those arrested at a Klan rally in Jamaica ...
- Mike Pearl
Jun 12, 2020 · The original image can be found on Shutterstock with the caption “Donald Trump with His Parents Mary and Fred Trump 1994.” (here the photo, his mother wears a colorful floral top with diagonal ...
Jan 4, 2018 · Fred Trump and the KKK of the 1920s: Linda Gordon, plus Nancy MacLean on the Roots of the Radical Right. The KKK of the 1920s had millions of members outside the South. It targeted Catholics and ...
Feb 25, 2019 · The story of Fred Trump’s arrest at a KKK rally has challenged reporters even before his son entered the 2016 presidential race. The KKK riot broke out during the May 30, 1927, Memorial Day ...
Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father, faced two arrests in his lifetime. The first occurred in 1927 during a Ku Klux Klan riot, while the second was in 1976 due to code violations at one of his ...
