Donald Trump denies his father was arrested after 1927 Ku Klux Klan brawl

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June 1927 New York Times account of aftermath of Memorial Day anti-Catholic riot by KKK has emerged
It lists seven men arrested during 'free-for-all battle' in Jamaica, Queens and includes 'Fred Trump' who was later 'discharged'
Republican frontrunner denies his father was arrested and says: 'This never happened. He was never there'
'Think – if it had, he would never have been able to get licenses in New York for anything associated with his business,' he told Daily Mail Online
KKK action was targeted at 'Roman Catholic' police and saw 1,000 Klansmen taken on by 100 NYPD officers
Trump's father, who was born to German immigrants, would go on to become a self-made millionaire creating a massive real estate empire

Published: 13:02 EST, 10 September 2015 | Updated: 18:09 EST, 10 September 2015

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Donald Trump reacted with fury today as a newspaper report from 1927 surfaced and appeared to suggest his father was arrested during a KKK riot in 1927.

A New York Times story from 1927 lists a 'Fred Trump' as one of the people taken in during a 'free-for-all' battle between police and 1,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan.

The address in the article also matches that of Trump's father in Queens.

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Bad news: Donald Trump's father Fred (above in 1990) was arrested in 1927 following a fight between police and members of the Ku Klux Klan in new York City

Tensions: Another KKK march in Queens in June 1927. The one at which seven men including a 'Fred Trump' were arrested was said to be the first time KKK robes had been worn in New York streets

Boing Boing found the article and points out that despite the circumstances, it does not necessarily mean that Trump's father was a member of the white supremacist, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic organization.

At the time, he would have been just 21, long before he became a self-made millionaire as a real estate developer.

The article states that '1,000 Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a free-for-all' during a May parade.

Their anger had been prompted by claims that 'Roman Catholic' police officers from the NYPD had earlier stopped Klansmen taking part in a Memorial parade - and beaten them.

The Times reported that a KKK flyer claimed: 'Native-born Protestant Americans clubbed and beaten when they exercise their rights in the country of their birth.'

A Fred Trump was one of seven men 'arrested in the near-riot of the parade,' and that article notes he was discharged when the group was arraigned in front of magistrate Thomas F. Doyle in court in Jamaica, Queens. That could mean he was an innocent bystander swept up in the brawl.

This could mean that he was just a bystander, though he did share a lawyer with the other men who were involved in the brawl, according to the story.

Trump however told Daily Mail Online that his father had not been arrested and that it was impossible he could have been, as it would have prevented him getting business licenses in the future.

'This is ridiculous,' he said.

'He was never arrested. He has nothing to do with this. This never happened. This is nonsense and it never happened.

'This never happened. Never took place. He was never arrested, never convicted, never even charged.

'It's a completely false, ridiculous story. He was never there! It never happened. Never took place.

'Think – if it had, he would never have been able to get licenses in New York for anything associated with his business, with construction. This is just bizarre and untrue.

'You don't even know it's the same person! Nobody says it was!'

The article makes mention of the growing number of Klansman in New York, and the police's frustration in trying to deal with them.

The editor of a Catholic magazine had written to the city's police commissioner warning of the KKK's plan to appear on the streets in their robes and said he believed it was the first time he had done so.

Trump's father was born to German immigrants who came to this country in the early 1900s.

He began working in real estate when he was just 15, starting a company with his mother Elizabeth.

He went on to build single-family houses in Queens in the late 1920s and later supermarkets in the 1930s. He married Donald's mother Mary Anne in 1936. She was a Scottish immigrant from the Isle of Lewis, and the couple had five children.

He would go on to build barracks during World War II on the East Coast and then move into affordable housing, amassing an estimated fortune of $250million at the time of his death in 1999 as the result of pneumonia.

Trump has yet to respond to the release of this New York Times article.