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Rise of Donald Trump, America's most dangerous gamble

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Growing up, Donald Trump admired his rich, self-made real estate dad, Fred Trump, the son of a German immigrant called Drumpf. But Donald Drumpf was too ‘soft’ to operate in the rough-and-tumble Queens’ (neighbour)hood of New York where his father Fred had made a fortune building apartments for the broker denizens of New York City (also popularly called The Big Apple).

“When we went with the collectors to knock on doors for rent, we learned to knock and then stand on the side of the door,” Donald has been quoted saying. “Because, sometimes, an enraged tenant might fire a bullet through the wooden door (instead of emerging to pay his rent).”

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