The Donald’s disreputable grandad

It's time Donald Trump embraced his German heritage.

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Donald Trump isn't letting on to where he came from

To understand Donald Trump, says Ben Macintyre in The Times, you first need to know about his grandfather, Friedrich Drumpf, who skipped military service in his native Germany and arrived in America as a penniless 16-year-old immigrant. Most presidential candidates, as Macintyre says, make political capital out of their antecedents, but Trump seldom mentions his grandfather and in his autobiography even suppressed his Germanic origins entirely and claims to be Swedish.

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