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mpcamb

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8. Maybe it's an old, but still sore wound-
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 06:09 PM
Jul 2019

Donald Trump’s grandfather begged to return to his German homeland in 1905.
The letter, signed by Friedrich Trump, who left Germany at the age of 16 in 1885, was unearthed at the state archives in the western German region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
When Donald Trump's German grandfather was ordered by a royal decree to leave the country (Bavaria, a kingdom in Gertmany) and never return, he wrote a letter pleading the prince regent of Bavaria not to deport him.
Friedrich Trump wrote the letter in 1905 when he returned to Germany with his wife and daughter after having emigrated to the US.
German authorities had given him eight weeks to leave and denied him repatriation because he failed to complete his mandatory military service and to register his initial emigration to the US 20 years earlier.

I don't know if he went by trump or Drumpf then but let's "Make Donald Drumpf Again".

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