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They are also reporting that Trump tried to scam his own father and was removed as executor of his will.
In one of the most remarkable scenes in the piece, Donald attempted to get his father to sign over complete control of his estate in an updated will, and was thwarted by Fred, who was suspicious and ended up hiring a new attorney and removing Donald as executor of his estate.
“Fred Trump had given careful thought to what would become of his empire after he died, and had hired one of the nation’s top estate lawyers to draft his will,” the report says. “But in December 1990, Donald Trump sent his father a document, drafted by one of his own lawyers, that sought to make significant changes to that will. Fred Trump, then 85, had never before set eyes on the document, 12 pages of dense legalese. Nor had he authorized its preparation. Nor had he met the lawyer who drafted it.”
Donald told his father to sign “immediately.”
The old man was apparently suspicious, and according to depositions later taken from the family during a financial squabble, declined to give Donald “total control over his affairs.”
“As close as they were—or perhaps because they were so close—Fred Trump did not immediately confront his son,” the report reads.
Fred instead went to his daughter, a federal judge, Maryanne Trump Barry.
“This doesn’t pass the smell test,” he told her.
“Donald was in precarious financial straits by his own admission,” she said, “and Dad was very concerned as a man who worked hard for his money and never wanted any of it to leave the family.”
So Fred Trump directed his daughter to find new estate lawyers, who stripped Donald Trump of control over his father’s estate.
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