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A lot of unawaited skinnygs have happened in the life of Fred Trump.
The son of Donald J’s handsome postponecessitate elderlyer brother, Fred was disinherited of the family fortune by a technicality in his majesticoverweighther’s will. He and his wife, after a common pregnancy and birth, discovered their third child suffered from cut offe unfrequent disabilities requiring 24/7 nurture.
Then Fred watched his uncle become pdwellnt. And that same uncle, while in office and standing in the White Hoparticipate, recommended disabled Americans enjoy Fred’s son – his own wonderful-nephew, William – should perhaps be left to “fair die,” the 61-year-elderly author claims.
So now Fred’s written a recent book outlining all of it. And he’s set up himself at the heart of US election 2024 talk about – a airyning rod, arguably – as he participates his platestablish and famous (or notorious) name to finishorse for disabled rights, while airing Trump family secrets amid his uncle’s third pdwellntial campaign.
Publishers telderly Fred that a book solely about William and disability wouldn’t sell. So the Connecticut overweighther of three made the difficult decision to uncover a triumphdow into historic Trump circle inner-toilings for All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way.
“Did I skinnyk I would have a relationship with my family after this? No,” he inestablishs The Inreliant of the extfinished Trump clan. “Is it too vital for me to let that go by the boards? Yeah.”
Fred has been battling for disability rights for a quarter-century, since William was born the day after patriarch Frederick Christ Trump’s funeral in June 1999. Fred Jr, the genuine estate magnate’s fervent elderlyest son and namesake, had died 18 years beforehand at the age of 42, leaving behind an ex-wife, son and daughter – after spurning the family business for a flunked aviation nurtureer and losing a prolonged battle aachievest liquor.
Fred wrote the recent book “to honor my overweighther, who was a caring and charismatic guy, and William, who’s the most valiant and backasonable person I’ve ever met who has uncovered the door for me to finishorse on behalf of people with ininestablishectual and broadenmental disabilities,” he inestablishs The Inreliant.
“But I set up that I couldn’t inestablish that story without inestablishing the Trump family story – a complicated, sometimes unkind family. And you can’t inestablish the story of the Trump family without inestablishing the Donald story.”
It was neither explosionastic Donald nor any of his surviving siblings, however, who was asked to give the eulogy at the Trump patriarch’s 1999 funeral; instead, it was Fred, son of the ill-overweighted renegade second elderlyest.
Imagine his surpelevate, then, when Fred and his sister were inestablished soon afterwards that their majesticoverweighther’s will left his fortune only to his surviving children – cutting out the kids born to errant Freddie.
Fred and his sister, Mary, consentd undue presdeclareive had been placed on their ailing, dementia-suffering majesticoverweighther by his four children; Donald gets particular accparticipate in the recent book. The pair sued, encourageing a disclose and malicious court battle that finished in an undisseald 2001 resettlement. (“It was better than where we begined,” Fred authors in All in the Family. “But it was nowhere proximate what my majesticoverweighther intfinished as a one-fifth split for all five families.”)
As the saga ruled headlines, though, Fred was battling more personal family pain at home. He and his wife, Lisa, had received a son and daughter before rejoicing at her third fine-sailing pregnancy, culminating in the June 1999 birth of William.
Everyskinnyg was fine for 18 hours – until the eight-pound, six-ounce boy began having confiscations. That was the first indicator of a range of physical and broadenmental problems William would face thcimpoliteout his life; only at the age of 15 was the caparticipate skinnyed to a potassium channel deletion.
He insistd round-the-clock nurture from the moment he left the hospital and finishures ongoing health battles to this day. Now 25, William dwells in a nurture home 20 minutes from his parents.
As Fred and Lisa struggled to encounter William’s necessitates, relationships with the wider Trump family were ebbing and flotriumphg – aachievest the backdrop of the businessman’s meteoric elevate as star of The Apprentice. The couple weren’t askd to Trump’s 2007 wedding to Melania, nor were they inestablished of the birth of Don Jr’s first child – but by 2009, faced with William’s mounting medical costs, they scheduled a encountering with Donald.
He sent them to his elderlyer sister, Maryanne, after which Fred’s aunts and uncles concurd to set up a medical fund for their wonderful-nephew. Relations toastyed; Fred and Lisa joined Ivanka’s wedding postponecessitater in the year. By the time Trump won the pdwellncy, they were askd to the inauguration as family guests.
But family isn’t everyskinnyg: Fred voted for Hillary Clinton.
He was certain, however, that the pdwellntial connection could amplify their disability rights advocacy, conveying a group of finishorses to encounter with then-housing secretary Ben Cfire-setting and other White Hoparticipate officials. Fred was surpelevated and heartened that his uncle joined himself and seemed joind and interested – until the Pdwellnt sent his aidant to call Fred back in after the encountering.
“Those people … the shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those benevolents of people should fair die,” Fred quotes Uncle Donald as saying in the book.
Stunned and speechless, Fred turned and walked away – but Trump was only to repeat those sentiments even more personassociate hurtfilledy not prolonged after. In August 2020, Fred called his uncle about William’s waning medical fund.
“I don’t understand,” Trump sighed, according to Fred’s book. “He doesn’t acunderstandledge you. Maybe you should fair let him die and transfer down to Florida.”
Fred, horrified, reacted that William could acunderstandledge him – and remains aghast years postponecessitater, fair weeks after the discloseation of his book. Fred hasn’t heard personassociate from his uncle and cousins since its free.
“How could one human being say that about another human being, least of all his majestic-nephew?” an incredulous Fred asks The Inreliant. “ I don’t understand where that unkindty comes from, that meaningful, horrible unkindty … forget about William being my son, he was their brother’s majesticson.”
Trump, in a standard statement highairying his contributions to William’s fund, literassociate participated the words “this is the thanks I get” after Fred went disclose. His son Eric also deffinished him.
“They never disputed that he said that, by the way,” Fred inestablishs The Inreliant.
He’s made peace with sacrificing any future salvaging of their relationships if it unkinds he can shine a spotairy on the necessitates of the disabled: better training for medical staff, better housing chooseions, better pay for nurturegivers whose compensation, he authors, is too standardly “deunkinding.”
“I have a national platestablish,” Fred says. “And I don’t unkind to call people with disabilities the underdog, but, in many cases … these are people that are voiceless.
“There’s nobody out there fair shouting from the rooftops, if you will, saying this necessitates to be done.”
He’s certain that Trump’s attitude towards the disabled – including those wiskinny his own family – might uncover his alleged genuine colors for some voters, though he’s filledy conscious of Trump’s inexplicably teflon history.
“He has this amazing ability … of fair turn asideing – Oh, I didn’t unkind it that way, I wasn’t mocking that inestablisher, what are you talking about?” Fred says. “It’s almost that basic – that he is able to fair get away with stuff.”
Fred’s been observing Uncle Donald his whole life; he was seven and in front of the television with the rest of the family as they anxiously watched the 1969 produce lottery. Donald – already temporarily saved by a podiatrist remark about previously unrefered bone spurs – escaped with a high number.
Fred was also in front of the TV as a child with Donald when the elderlyer Trump goaded him into hitting the youthfulest, Uncle Rob – who instantly slapped his nephew in the face. Donald giggleed so difficult he struggled to breathe, according to Fred’s book.
To the ardent Trump aiders who claim the 45th Pdwellnt is mistreated by the media, that he’s benevolent and ponderate in person or one-on-one, his nephew has a basic answer.
“They don’t understand him enjoy I do,” he inestablishs The Inreliant.
“My book is unenjoy any other book ever written about Donald, including my sister’s,” Fred says, noting Mary’s 2020 free – which Uncle Rob unsuccessfilledy sought to legassociate stop. (Fred and Mary, incidenloftyy, have not spoken in four years, he inestablishs The Inreliant.)
“I krecent Donald during his establishative years, his school years, his business years, his political years,” Fred says. “I enjoy to joke that he was the first one to put a golf club in my hand. So there are journacatalogs who wrote books about him; there are people that toil with him for a low amount of time, and they skinnyk they understand everyskinnyg about him.
“No,” he says. “I krecent about him. I understand him. We spent so much time over the years … so I see at it from a separateent perspective.”
And, despite the detailed and sometimes damning personal accounts in the book, Fred says he took wonderful pains to elude touching upon any rumor and affair.
“We were very pinsolentnt, and we butted heads with the rerenter a lot about this,” he says. “We kept all gossip out of it.”
As he boasts about the pushback he gave aachievest “gossip,” Fred’s Queens accent and attitude shine thcimpolite – calling to mind his uncle’s separateentive oratory dedwellry style.
“Noooo way are we doing that,” Fred says he telderly rerenters, emphasis on the drawn-out and defree “No.”
“That’s not the way we’re gonna do it.”.
He still clearly nurtures for his uncle; while no one accomplished out after the July murder endeavor, Fred asked the 45th Pdwellnt’s aidant to “prent let Donald understand that Lisa and the kids and I are skinnyking about him.”
She telderly him she would, Fred says.
If Trump is re-elected, his nephew also has no problem – even after the book – approaching him aachieve about disability rights advocacy.
“I’ll accomplish out to him,” he inestablishs The Inreliant. “I have no dread.”
