The final chapter of the story of Friedrich Trump opens many questions that I can’t answer so far removed from the events. But they are questions again based around facts that do not support the ‘official’ story that the Trump family has told. I believe that cover story was told to camouflage the alliance between the Bureau and the Trump family.
History & Trump biographies tell us that Friedrich Trump, grandfather of the President of the United States, died on May 30th 1918 one of New York’s first victims of the Spanish Flu. I believe that this is very unlikely to be true, that he died of another cause & the narrative crafted to make his death look fairly ordinary. Maybe it was not…
The depictions of his death state that Friedrich Trump was walking with his son on 5/29/1918 and felt suddenly & extremely sick. That is not the typical progression of the pneumonia he was diagnosed with at the time or the Spanish Flu the diagnosis is changed to over time. You do not feel suddenly & extremely sick while walking down the street with your 12-year old son. Friedrich died the next day at the age of 49, again a very rapid progression for either pneumonia or influenza. Had Donald Trump’s constant insistence that he has good genetics for longevity a hint to investigate why his grandfather died so young?
The 1918 Spanish Influenza outbreak was an extremely virulent form, it killed many healthy people in their prime. So there is the possibility that it could have been that flu, but the symptoms of rapid severe onset that appear to be pneumonia also applies to poisoning with potassium cyanide salts slipped into a drink…
So lets look at how the Spanish Flu was impacting New York City in late May 1918, was it a full scale epidemic or pandemic at that time? In a word? Hell No! In fact, on June 7 the City Health Department reported only 2 flu related deaths in the previous week & that was from the 1917 strain. A very weak strain of the flu in fact that was disappearing as summer conditions arrived.
In fact, the Spanish Influenza did not reach NYC until August, 10 weeks after Friedrich Trump had died. Even then it was contained by quarantining a ships passengers & crew and there were 0 fatalites from the incident.
The flu ravaged the city during the winter of 1918-19 & the summer of 1919, but in May 1918 when Friedrich Trump died, it had not yet reared it’s head. At the time some ‘experts’ blamed the flu on a German biowarfare programs, was blaming Friedrich’s death a way to point to ‘fake’ news that connected his supposed cause of death to his real cause of death?
Without the release of documents, I don’t think we can ever answer this question solidly, I hate speculating to this level. But would the death of Friedrich Trump at the hands of German agents explain why his sons enjoyed a good relationship with the FBI, NYPD & military?
His son Fred Trump continued the family real estate business, surviving the great depression because NYC federal courts awarded him control over bankruptcy assets. Allowing him to make a living selling off those properties. Then Fred was given contracts to build military barracks & facilities along the Eastern Shore, was this an effort to prevent German agents from once again infiltrating seaside facilities & disrupting shipping? Maybe so, but it seems unlikely that the military would not know Fred was of German descent pretending to be Swedish. They must have had a reason to trust him.
It also leads to a most curious incident. Freidrick Trump’s other son John G. Trump pursued an academic career becoming a scientist & professor at Massachusets Institute of Technology (MIT). He was involved in a lot of research for military programs, again believed to be a trustworthy person. In January of 1943, excentric scientist Nikola Tesla died in a hotel room in New York City. The Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover wanted to secure his research to prevent other nations from accessing any breakthroughs. For decades it was alleged that the federal Office of Alien Property seized the papers but it is unlikely they were ever controlled by anyone other than the FBI. https://www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi
Who did J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI contact to investigate Tesla’s papers & research? John G. Trump, it is a remarkable coincidence that a scientist of German descent would get tapped to conduct this research. But not as large a coincidence that his father died soon after Hoover’s reputation was sealed with an intelligence coup upstairs from Freidrich Trump’s barber shop. https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla
I don’t know where else this research leads, I’m looking for connections between the individual NYPD, Secret Service & Bureau of Investigation agents & the Trumps. But my work on this is very preliminary & I may never have time or luck finding the connections to establish this. If you find anything interesting send it my way, crowdsourcing research is much more effective!
Maybe this is confirmation bias & these are just coincidences. Maybe time or some century old classified documents will reveal all one day!