Fact Check: Fred Trump was detained at KKK rally but there's no evidence he was supporter

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Numerous posts to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have resurrected a claim that the president’s father was arrested during a 1927 Ku Klux Klan rally. Here is a fact check on this claim.

The claim: Fred Trump, President Donald Trump’s father, was arrested at a KKK rally in 1927to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have resurrected a claim that the president’s father was arrested during a 1927 Ku Klux Klan rally that turned violent in Queens, New York. The accusation first surfaced during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Among those arrested, the article identifies a man with the name and address of the home of Trump’s father in Jamaica, Queens. The article details the charges filed against six of the men. However, it does not identify any charges against the elder Trump and merely states that he “was discharged.” The information available in the New York Times article made it difficult to figure out whether Trump’s father was directly involved in the melee or was simply a bystander, falsely accused or otherwise the victim of mistaken identity during the chaotic event. There is no indication in the article that Trump’s father was a member or supporter of the KKK.

 

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🤔 It’s 1927 and a white man is detained at a KKK rally. 🤔

Obviously the claim that he was arrested is FALSE. Why don’t y’all put that word on here like every other time a claim is FALSE? Is that cuz it shows his dad wasn’t affiliated with the KKK, and it helps Trump? Sure it is

Wow!

Doesn't 'black lives matter' really mean that blacks believe they don't matter unless and until white people tell them they do? BlackLivesMatter --Larry Elder

I didn’t know he was a Democrat.

That cannot be any more true just as today's black were not around to experience first have slavery. Both are in the past... let it go

Now what was his childhood like.. Being raised by a KKK member...🤨

His father was Catholic. The KKK hate Catholics. His father was arrested with other protestors at age 19 protesting the KKK parade. The KKK was allowed in the memorial day parade at the last minute and the citizens were mad and attacked the KKK men in the streets.

Why would someone attend a klan rally unless they supported those beliefs? It's not like a Dianetics seminar where you're just there to hear them out.

You don’t attend a KKK rally “just because”. There are articles about how Trump (wanting his daddy’s approval so bad) basically bathed in his daddy’s dirty water just to get his approval so his ... 🤔 like father like son might be befitting.

Every President we have had except Obama has had family members in the Klan 400yrsADOS

However the cops took his white hood away and put out the fire on the burning cross he carried.

Whatever his father did or didn’t do doesn’t matter. Because this is your guy! Nice sources for fact checking too! 🤣🤣

Make U.S.A. great again by blue power!🤨🧐🤔😉😉😉😉😉😉😉

Fact check also revels the Democratic Party and the KKK are one and the same.

Okay cool... Robert Byrd, LBJ, and Northam were all klan members. You all love them 😘

But we do know for sure that Pelosi's father was a racist

you missed the point. he was a racist kkk nazi bigot in a kkk street protest in Queens NYC. YOU MISSED THE POINT NO ARREST IS NOT THE ISSUE.

Eh let's use looney tunes reasoning. .same thing

I was caught cosplaying at ComicCon, but it has never been proven that I'm a geek.

Did anyone in the Trump family attend the Nazi camps in Yaphank, NY?

When you are a Trump there are many many ways to hide , confuse, and distort history. Long after we are all gone the Trump family will be remembered as the criminal fascist syndicate they are.

Fact Check: False

It's The Clueless Cluck Cluck (Like A BUNKER CHICKEN) Klan HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H A HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA! GOP

like father like son

He must have been a Democrat.

I don't care if his dad was at a KKK rally or not, Trump is clearly a white supremacist.

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