Former President Donald Trump mused on whether his father made it to Heaven as he speculated what the late Fred Trump’s reaction would be to all the investigations against him.
Trump lamented that he was under investigation more than the “great late Alphonse Capone,” to a packed crowd of some 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City Sunday.
“My father is looking down on me right now… he was a tough guy. But he was legit. And I know my mother’s in heaven. I’m not 100% sure of my father, but it’s close,” Trump said to laughs from the fired-up crowd.
“They’ve weaponized the Justice Department against their political opponent,” the former president said.
“But he’s looking down at me right now and he’s saying, how the hell did this happen to my son? He’s not a bad person”
Trump has been charged in four criminal cases, involving charges related to election interference, hoarding classified documents, and paying “hush money,” to porn star Stormy Daniels. He became the first president to be convicted on felony charges in May when he was found guilty on 34 counts in the “hush money” case. Sentencing was delayed until after the election.
The former president has also been the subject of multiple civil suits and was sentenced to pay $454 million in a New York civil fraud trial. He was also sentenced to pay sex columnist E. Jean Caroll $5 million in a civil defamation suit.
He has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
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The 45th president went on to affirm that he is a “good person” to roars of approval from the crowd of MAGA die hards.
“All we want to do is straighten out our country,” he said.
Trump’s father Fred was a real estate developer who built more than 27,000 homes in Brooklyn and Queens.
Unlike his flashy son, known for his opulent “Trump Tower” and branded planes, Fred shunned overt displays of his wealth, according to his obituary in the New York Times.
The former president claims he began his career in real estate with a “small” $1 million loan from his father.
“I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of $1 million,” Trump said. “I came into Manhattan. I had to pay him back. I had to pay him back with interest. But I came into Manhattan, I started buying up properties. And I did great,” he said at a 2015 town hall.
Trump said he was glad his father stuck to Brooklyn and Queens while he made Manhattan his territory.
“‘You know, being the son of somebody, it could have been competition to me. This way, I got Manhattan all to myself!” Trump said.
