JANUARY 12, 2019

NEWS AND VIEWS

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO EXTRA FAT TO BE TRIMMED ON THIS STORY. I AM TRYING TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY BANNING EARLY VOTING SCHEDULES ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR COST, PERHAPS BY REPUBLICANS, SINCE THE DEMOCRATS USUALLY PROFIT FROM THIS KIND OF VOTING. SOME STATES HAVE BEEN CUTTING BACK ON EARLY VOTING AND OTHER THINGS THAT BRING OUT THE POORER SEGMENTS OF THE COUNTRY TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR YEARS NOW. IF YOU WORK TWO JOBS YOU WILL HAVE A HARDER TIME GETTING TO PLACE YOUR VOTE IN A NARROW TIME RANGE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE NO CAR.

SO, WBUR.ORG IS BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS’ NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO STATION. I’M SURE THEY WOULD ONLY BE TRYING TO CLARIFY THE NEED FOR MORE FUNDING, NOT START AN AGITATION STATEWIDE TO CUT FUTURE COSTS BY CUTTING DOWN ON ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT CIVIL LIBERTIES AND ELECT REPUBLICANS. OUR POLITICS HAVE BECOME SO DIRTY AND CYNICAL THESE DAYS THAT I FEEL ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING SHOULD BE EXAMINED CLOSELY. IT’S REALLY SAD.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/01/12/mass-cities-election-early-voting-reimbursements
Cities And Towns To Be Reimbursed For $1.1M For Election Costs
January 12, 2019
BY The Associated Press

Massachusetts communities will be reimbursed more than $1.1 million for the unfunded costs of early voting in the 2018 general election.

State Auditor Suzanne Bump last month surveyed city and town clerks to add up the costs associated with early voting in the midterm elections - and whether any of those costs could be considered an unfunded mandate.

The money for the reimbursements will come from funding allocated to state Secretary William Galvin's office in a supplemental budget passed late last year.

Galvin said that as the state works to expand early voting and increase voter access and convenience, it needs to make sure local election officials are given the resources they need to hold successful elections.

More than 584,000 voters cast ballots during the early voting period last year.


I’VE BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT THESE UNDATED, OR RIDICULOUSLY DATED, ARTICLES FOR AWHILE NOW WHEN I FIND THEM; THEREFORE I WANT TO OFFER HIGH PRAISE TO THE SACBEE.COM FOR IT’S FULL AND ACCURATE STATEMENT ON WHEN THE ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED. IT DOES NOT SAY “YESTERDAY” OR ANY SUCH THING. IT GIVES THE DATE, THE PUBLICATION TIME, AND THEN THE UPDATE. I FEEL SAFE HERE SAYING THAT THE UPDATE WAS MADE AT 4:55 PM.

HERE AGAIN IS A KILLER WHO CHOSE AN AR-15 AS HIS WEAPON. IT’S LIKE A MCCORMACK REAPER AS COMPARED TO SCYTHES – SO MUCH MORE EFFICIENT !! NO REGRETTABLE LOSS OF LIFE MAKES UP FOR THE UNCONSCIONABLE LIMITATION ON THE RIGHT OF AN ORDINARY CITIZEN TO ARM HIMSELF AGAINST A RAMPAGING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THEY WILL HAVE AUTOMATIC RIFLES, SO WE NEED THEM, TOO. RIGHT?

https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article224372145.html
Gunman who killed Davis Officer Natalie Corona was ordered to surrender AR-15 rifle
BY SAM STANTON, BENJY EGEL, MOLLY SULLIVAN, AND DANIEL HUNT
JANUARY 12, 2019 11:28 AM, UPDATED 5 MINUTES AGO

VIDEO -- Deceased suspect in murder of Davis police officer, Natalie Corona, lived only a block from where she was gunned near the intersection of 5th and D streets in Davis, Calif. By Daniel Kim 0:36 DURATION.

The gunman who shot and killed Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona Thursday night has been identified as Kevin Douglas Limbaugh, a 48-year-old man who was ordered last fall to surrender a semiautomatic rifle after he was convicted in a battery case.

Yolo County Superior Court records show Limbaugh was charged in September with battery with serious bodily injury, a incident that a source said stemmed from him punching a co-worker at Cache Creek Casino in the face after a dispute.

The case was resolved as a misdemeanor conviction, and California Department of Justice records show he agreed to surrender a black .223-caliber Bushmaster AR-15 rifle in November.

Court records also show Limbaugh did not possess any other weapons, and authorities have yet to determine where he obtained the two semiautomatic handguns he is believed to have used in a Thursday night rampage that killed the 22-year-old officer and shot up a surrounding downtown neighborhood.

Davis police have not yet released the name of the gunman, who they say shot himself inside his rental home at 501 E St. in Davis after Corona was killed.

But sources say Limbaugh has been identified as the gunman and that there was little indication before the rampage – other than the battery case – that he was capable of such behavior.

Probation authorities found no other criminal charges or any signs of mental health problems when the battery case was resolved, a source said, and public records show few other dealings with authorities, other than a traffic case in Florida and an unpaid tax lien in New Mexico.

One former roommate, who asked not to be identified, told The Bee that “Kevin had a troubled life and felt trapped and had deep anger issues that he never let any of his friends see.”

“We didn’t see this coming at all,” the roommate said, adding that Limbaugh was “a regular guy” who “had a nice car (and) worked graveyard shifts at a casino.”

“He was making great money but I could tell he absolutely hated his job at the time,” the roommate said, adding, “He might’ve felt like he just couldn’t get his life back together after losing his job at the casino.”

Casino general manager Kari Smith had no immediate comment when reached by The Bee, but a source said the court case involving Limbaugh stemmed from a dispute with a co-worker over how Limbaugh was handling slot machines. Limbaugh punched the co-worker in the face, but the worker did not sustain major injuries and was satisfied when the case was resolved as a misdemeanor, the source said.

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NOW HERE IS A GENUINELY GOOD REPUBLICAN IDEA: OUTLAW GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS !!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-senators-introduce-bill-to-permanently-end-government-shutdowns/
GOP senators introduce bill to permanently end government shutdowns
BY GRACE SEGERS
UPDATED ON: JANUARY 11, 2019 / 1:12 PM / CBS NEWS

VIDEO – CBS WEEKEND NEWS – SNOW AND FBI

Several Republican senators introduced legislation Friday to permanently end government shutdowns by creating an automatic continuing resolution for any appropriations bill, allowing the federal government to remain open even when budget agreements break down.

Currently, when Congress fails to meet a deadline to pass a government funding bill, the agencies which remain unfunded shut down. Often, Congress chooses to pass what's called a continuing resolution (CR) to delay and extend the deadline to pass funding bills, which keeps funding operations at their current levels. The "End Government Shutdowns Act" would automatically create a continuing resolution for any appropriations bill not passed by Oct. 1, the deadline to pass a bill funding the government for the next fiscal year. In theory, this would allow members of Congress to continue to negotiate over appropriations while keeping the government open.

CR funding would be reduced by 1 percent after 120 days, and would be reduced by another 1 percent every 90 days "until Congress does its job and completes the annual appropriations process," according to the release announcing the bill.

The bill was introduced by a group of Republicans representing the ideological spectrum in the caucus, such as hardline conservative Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, Utah libertarian Sen. Mike Lee, and moderate Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The bill is sponsored by Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who has introduced the legislation every year since he was elected to the Senate in 2010. Influential Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Financial Committee chairman, has also signed on.

"This legislation will accomplish that goal, providing lawmakers with more time to reach a responsible resolution to budget negotiations, giving federal workers and their families more stability, and ensuring we avoid disruptions that ultimately hurt our economy, taxpayers and working families," Portman said in a statement.

The current government shutdown will be the longest in history beginning on Saturday. It has resulted in 800,000 government workers furloughed or working without pay, and it is affecting airline travel, federal investigations, and food inspections, among other things.

First published on January 11, 2019

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Grace Segers
Grace Segers is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital.


TRUMP IS APPARENTLY A MORE COMMON NAME THAN I REALIZED. IT SHOWS UP HERE AS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER IN 1958, AND BEARS A SPOOKY TWILIGHT ZONE RESEMBLANCE TO TODAY’S TRUMP AND “THE” WALL. COULD TRUMP POSSIBLY HAVE GOTTEN HIS “WALL” IDEA FROM THIS OLD TELEVISION SHOW? HE IS KNOWN TO WATCH A GOOD AMOUNT OF TV, AND EVEN MAKE DECISIONS BASED ON WHAT THE FOX NEWS SHOW RECOMMENDS. DRUMMING UP FEAR AND OTHER IRRATIONAL EMOTION MAY SEEM TO HIM LIKE A LEGITIMATE WAY TO RAISE MONEY. IF IT'S EFFECTIVE, THEN IT MUST BE THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

https://www.commondreams.org/further/2019/01/10/whoah-time-travel-marvel-slimy-grifter-walter-trump-tried-scare-people-building
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Whoah. In Time Travel Marvel, Slimy Grifter Walter Trump Tried To Scare People Into Building Bogus Wall 60 Years Before Slimy Grifter Donald Trump Did
byAbby Zimet, staff writer

SCREENSHOT -- Cheap Grifter Walter Trump Tries to Fearmonger His Way to Success. Screenshot

The saga of our Racist-Buffoon-In-Chief's "great, great" wall lumbers onward. On the 20th day of his hostage-taking temper tantrum, Trump visited the site of his fictional border "crisis," where illegal crossings are at their lowest level since 1971, experts cite "no credible evidence" of terrorists entering, media reported "no sign of a crisis," residents insisted they feel safe and there's no crime by migrants or anyone else, landowners are prepping to fight possible construction of a wall, and San Diego's KPBS revealed all eight steel and concrete wall prototypes solicited last year by Homeland Security were deemed during tests "vulnerable to at least one breaching technique" - aka they didn't work - including Trump's "absolutely critical" current favorite, a sleet slat design that testers simply cut through with saws.

Away from the border, everyone else - the FBI, the TSA, border patrol agents - also oppose his stupid wall and the ruinous shutdown it's sparked. So do federal workers who protested in D.C. even as Trump visited the border. There, he spoke briefly behind piles of drugs, cash and a few weapons meant to illustrate the "crisis" - except they were seized at legal ports of entry, rendering him "the high priest of fraud." No, wait. Actually, that's the moniker of one Walter Trump, who in a truly weird instance of surreal life imitating tacky improbable art appeared 60 years ago as a slimy con man on a CBS TV series called "Trackdown."

In the episode, titled “The End of the World” and airing May 8, 1958, traveling grifter Trump, DU MC SSR” - “Doctor of the Universe, Master of Cometry, Student of Stellar Reactions” - whips a western town into a frenzy by convincing residents they'll all die in a cosmic meteor explosion before the day is out unless he and he alone saves them - by building a wall, also by selling them magical, special-force-propelling umbrellas that deflect meteorites. “I bring you a message, a message few of you will be able to believe. A message of great importance. A message I alone was able to read in the fires of the universe,” proclaims faux Trump in his long, star-and-moon-bedecked robe. Trump is played by Lawrence Dobkin, looking eerily like Fred Trump with less hair; the hero, a skeptical Texas Ranger named Hoby Gilman, is played by the wonderful Robert Culp, who gets the great line, "You're a liar, Trump."

The show, flagged by writer/animator Alex Hirsch - "What the fresh hell" - and fact-checked by Snopes, features some astonishingly prescient dialogue. A judge warns, “I know these people pretty well, and right now there’s nothing in the world that can change their minds...they're not going to listen." A narrator intones, "The people were ready to believe. Like sheep they ran to the slaughterhouse. And waiting for them was the high priest of Fraud." Trump threatens to sue disbelievers; he also declares to the town, “I am the only one! Just me! I can build a wall around your homes that nothing will penetrate.” In the end - oh let it be, please - justice prevails, and Gilman gets the greatest line of all time: "You're under arrest, Trump." Ultimately, Trump is shot dead by his co-conspirator; he is not named Stephen Miller, but if the Matrix truly exists, he should be.

Protesting Trump's border visit. Photo by Eric Gay/AP
Screenshot from Trackdown

Also, Trump in 2004 at Wagner College, which gave him an honorary degree they now want to rescind. The Daily Show unearthed his speech, in which he declares, “Don’t give up. Don’t allow it to happen. If there’s a concrete wall in front of you, go through it, go over it, go around it, but get to the other side of that wall.”


HOW WILL THIS FICTIONAL MR. TRUMP'S WALL PREVENT DAMAGE FROM METEORITES, SINCE THEY FALL STRAIGHT DOWN? PERHAPS A TIN FOIL HAT WOULD HELP.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-trackdown-1958-tv-series-the-end-of-the-world-episode-build-wall/
1950's TV episode featured salesman named "Trump" who wants a wall to prevent end of the world
BY CHRISTOPHER BRITO
UPDATED ON: JANUARY 12, 2019 / 9:59 AM / CBS NEWS

VIDEO -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1D2ynASqe4 -- First published on January 12, 2019

As President Trump and Democrats feud over funding for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, a clip from the 1950s television series "Trackdown" that captured eerie parallels between the show and reality resurfaced. In the episode titled "The End of the World," a sketchy salesman by the name of Walter Trump pitches the idea of building a giant wall, claiming it would protect townspeople from a catastrophic cosmic event.

On Wednesday, "Gravity Falls" creator Alex Hirsch tweeted a part of the episode and it went viral. But it wasn't the first time the video made the rounds. Snopes reported on the authenticity of the clip in 2017 after a portion of the show was uploaded to YouTube and claimed to have "predicted Donald Trump."

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CBS News confirmed with its internal archival department that the episode aired on the network May 9, 1958. It was written by the late John Robinson, who's credited on 18 episodes in the "Trackdown" series, which follows the adventures of a Texas Ranger as he "travels the Old West tracking down assorted killers, bank robbers, horse thieves and other evildoers," according to IMDb.

In the clip, Walter Trump, who is played by actor Lawrence Dobkin, claims he's the only one who can save the villagers from meteors by building a wall. Nearly everyone believes him, and fear grips the population. Trump threatens to sue Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman (played by Robert Culp), the only person who openly doubts him.

"I am the only one. Trust me. I can build a wall around your homes that nothing will penetrate," said Trump, whom the narrator describes as the "high priest of fraud." "You ask how do you build that wall. You ask, and I'm here to tell you."

Trump eventually dupes the frightened population into forking over cash to start paying for the wall, and some even team up to rob a bank. At the end of the episode, as Trump tries to depart from the town, he's arrested and then shot by a villager he tried to conspire with.

A full version of the episode has also been uploaded to YouTube.

VIDEO -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1D2ynASqe4 -- First published on January 12, 2019

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FATHER TEACHES SON HOW TO PUMP HIMSELF UP. THAT HAS ITS’ USES, BUT IT APPEARS TOO AGGRESSIVE TO ME AND IF THE PLAIN FACTS BELIE THE EFFORT, THEN THE RESPECT WILL BE LOST. SALES TENDS TO BE LIKE THAT, THOUGH. I REMEMBER A FAIRLY PITIFUL DOOR TO DOOR SALESMAN WHO TALKED TOO FAST AND FOR TOO LONG TO SELL HIS BRUSHES. MOTHER WOULD USUALLY BUY ONE FROM HIM, AND THEN TALK ABOUT HIM WHEN HE LEFT.

I WONDER HOW MUCH MONEY SALES PEOPLE LIKE THAT ACTUALLY DO MAKE, OF IF THEY JUST GO HOME DEPRESSED. I SUPPOSE MOST OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT ARTHUR MILLER’S GREAT PLAY, “DEATH OF A SALESMAN.” IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT, DO. IT ISN’T TOO LONG, AND IT DEALS HUMOROUSLY WITH THE DESPERATION OF PEOPLE’S LIVES IN THE 1930S AND 40S. BE NOT CONFUSED, HOWEVER. IT IS A CLASSIC GREEK STYLE TRAGEDY, SO GET OUT YOUR HANKIE. THE PEOPLE ARE LIKEABLE, BUT DOOMED.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/us/politics/fred-donald-trump-father.html
Fred Trump Taught His Son the Essentials of Showboating Self-Promotion
By Jason Horowitz
Aug. 12, 2016

PHOTOGRAPH -- Fred C. Trump, Donald J. Trump’s father, in 1965. As a salesman, builder and self-promoter, he was the Donald Trump of his day.CreditCreditJack Smith/NY Daily News Archive, via Getty Images

The throngs of New Yorkers who poured into Coney Island on a sweltering Sunday in July 1939 — shuffling past the rides, hot dog stands and freak shows — confronted one last spectacle blaring just beyond the surf.

At 65 feet and outfitted with enormous Trump signs, the yacht called the Trump Show Boat was hard to miss. And that was the point.

Its loudspeakers blasted recordings of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America” over and over, compelling many sunbathers, reluctant to be seen as unpatriotic, to stand and salute each time. When the boat floated swordfish-shaped balloons — redeemable for $25 or $250 toward a new Trump Home — toward the shore, bathers nearly rioted as they raced to snatch them up.

Fred C. Trump, the owner of the boat and the master builder of solid homes in Brooklyn and Queens, is often considered a point of contrast to his flashy son Donald, the brash developer who built gilded towers in Manhattan, and became a tabloid fixture, television personality and now, Republican presidential nominee.

But Donald J. Trump inherited more than just a real estate empire from his father. As a salesman, competitor, courter of politicians and controversy and, above all, as a showboating self-promoter, Fred Trump was the Donald Trump of his day.

To demonstrate to potential homeowners the futility of renting, Fred wallpapered a model home in rent receipts. In newspaper advertisements for his Shore Haven apartments in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, he referred to himself under an illustration of the Statue of Liberty as “Fred C. Trump, acting as a free and rugged individualist to meet the basic need for shelter.”

Image -- A news clipping from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle about a Trump promotion in 1939. CreditBrooklyn Daily Eagle

Decades before his son splashed the family name across his first tower, his father christened a grocery in Woodhaven “Trump Market,” and his Coney Island housing complex “Trump Village.”

“He was a good salesman,” Mr. Trump said in a recent interview in his Trump Tower office. “He had some beautiful ads. Don’t forget that was our internet.”

Mr. Trump’s childhood friends have said they see in him his father’s intensity, but also a constant and often palpable need to please and impress the patriarch who ruled his family with a firm hand. Even today, Donald Trump seems to bathe in his father’s approval. A framed photo of Fred Trump faces him on his cluttered desk.

Asked what his father, who died in 1999, would have thought about his run for president, Mr. Trump, 70, said, “He would have absolutely allowed me to have done it.”

Born in 1905 to German immigrants who spoke mostly German at home, Fred Trump was already working as a butcher’s delivery boy at age 10. While studying at Richmond Hill High School, he held down part-time jobs and pumped his brainy younger brother, John, who later went on to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for summaries of assigned reading.

“Daddy was interested in the reading of the books,” said John Trump’s daughter, Karen Ingraham. “Uncle Fred was more of the doer.”

Before he turned 21, Fred Trump and his mother, Elizabeth, started the construction company E. Trump & Sons, so named because only she was old enough to sign the checks. The business took off.

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PHOTOGRAPH -- Donald Trump and his father in 1987 at Wollman Rink in Central Park.
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At age 28, he won the mortgage service business of a troubled German bank, and by 1938 was bragging in the papers about the “throngs visiting” his developments in Brooklyn. That year, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle referred to him first as a prominent Long Island builder, then as the “Henry Ford of the home-building industry.” His ego grew accordingly.

He took pride in his intellectual abilities, daring people to stump him with enormous numbers to calculate. “He wanted to show that he could add them in his head,” said Barbara Giffuni, a daughter-in-law of Joseph Giffuni, another builder and one of Fred Trump’s good friends.

But Fred Trump owed at least as much to federal housing programs, political connections and an influx of immigrants and veterans as he did to his brainpower.

Almost as soon as President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Federal Housing Administration in the 1930s, Mr. Trump eagerly sought to make use of its loan subsidies. “The working classes have been fully awakened as to the benefits of homeownership under the F.H.A. 25-year mortgage plan,” he said at the time.

To really get their attention, he attached price tags like $3,999.99. “One penny more and it won’t sell,” Mr. Trump said his father had taught him.

While his Trump Show Boat promotions displeased the Parks Department, which slapped him with a summons for advertising without a license, Jeanette G. Brill, Brooklyn’s first female magistrate, imposed only a $2 fine. Mr. Trump boasted to The Eagle that “woman judges are far more sympathetic to the cause of F.H.A. Housing and far more appreciative of novel advertising ideas and good music than are the men judges.”

The war broke out and Fred Trump moved his young family — his wife, Mary Ann, and three children, Freddy, Maryanne and Elizabeth — to Virginia, where he built more than 1,000 apartments for the Navy.

The Trumps in 1987 with the boxing promoter Don King in Atlantic City.
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Image -- The Trumps in 1987 with the boxing promoter Don King in Atlantic City.CreditAssociated Press

He soon returned to New York and had two more children, Donald and Robert.

He treated his extended family like business partners. On Sunday mornings, he would drop all of his children off at the house of his sister, Elizabeth, and ask his brother-in-law, who worked six days a week, to check his books. To avoid Fred, the family started attending an earlier church service, said John Walter, his sister’s son, who eventually did his uncle’s books.

Fred brought that hard-charging approach home. While his oldest son, Freddy, crumbled under the pressure, Donald blossomed under it.

Donald Trump said he learned his father’s values, and his killer sense of competition, by following him to building sites and watching him squeeze the most out of every dollar. “My father would go and he’d pick up the sawdust and he’d pick up the nails, the extra nails, and he’d pick up the scraps and he’d use whatever he could use and recycle it in some form or sell it,” Mr. Trump said Thursday in a speech to the National Association of Home Builders.

He also saw his father’s tough negotiating style, even at home.

One time some of Donald Trump’s friends were vexed why his wealthy father would not buy his son a new baseball glove. Mr. Trump said it was because his father suspected him, correctly, of playing dumb about the price of the mitt he wanted, and of trying to get the salesman to go along with it.

Fred Trump’s projects housed thousands of G.I.’s and made him rich and powerful. Some tenants loved Mr. Trump for his solid, well-priced apartments; others loathed him for his suspected exclusion of blacks from his properties. (Woody Guthrie, a tenant of Mr. Trump’s Beach Haven apartments, wrote in 1950, “I suppose/ Old Man Trump knows/ Just how much/ Racial Hate/ he stirred up/ In the bloodpot of human hearts.”)

In the 1970s, Donald Trump, who had just taken over the business, would fiercely contest a housing discrimination lawsuit brought by the Justice Department, before ultimately agreeing to change renting practices.

And years before Mr. Trump became known for spreading campaign money around, regardless of party affiliation, he watched his father court Abraham D. Beame, who would become mayor, and the other power brokers of Brooklyn’s Madison Democratic Club.

“In order to build you needed to get zoning, and in order to get zoning you had to know the politicians,” Mr. Trump said. “And my father got to know the politicians.”

Mr. Trump, who is particular about his physical appearance, also takes after his father in other ways. He pointed out a picture of his father, immaculately dressed and coifed, in a book of family photos that his own children gave to him for his 70th birthday in June.

“My father was very vain,” he said.

There were differences. Donald Trump wanted to build in Manhattan. His father didn’t see the point. “This is nice and easy, what are you doing over there?” Fred would say to his son, according to Mr. Walter, who worked with his cousin and uncle.

Mr. Trump ultimately eclipsed his father, though Fred Trump, who was married to his wife for more than 60 years, joked to his thrice-married son that the “one place you’ll never beat me is with the marriage stuff,” Mr. Trump said.

In the last decade of his life, the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease slowed Fred Trump, according to his friends and relatives, and he died at the age of 93 with difficulty recognizing people.

Mr. Trump said he wasn’t scared that the disease might be the last thing he inherits from his father. “Do I accept it? Yeah,” he said. “Look, I’m very much a fatalist.”

At Fred Trump’s wake, at the Frank E. Campbell funeral home, his son stepped forward to address the political, real estate and society power brokers in the crowd. One attendee recalled Mr. Trump’s unorthodox ode to his father, which Mr. Trump confirmed.

“My father taught me everything I know. And he would understand what I’m about to say,” Mr. Trump announced to the room. “I’m developing a great building on Riverside Boulevard called Trump Place. It’s a wonderful project.”

Correction: August 12, 2016
An earlier version of this article misidentified a friend of Fred Trump’s whose daughter-in-law recalled how he showed off his math abilities. The friend was Joseph Giffuni, not Vincent Giffuni; Vincent was a son of Joseph.

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NYT: FBI worried Trump was in Russian employ after Comey firing
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Americans suffer shutdown consequences; Trump stuck on wall hype
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