President Donald Trump tried to rewrite his father's will behind his back in the 1990s to strengthen his position as the only person set to inherit his father's estate and protect him from creditors according to a bombshell New York Times report about Trump's tax practices.
The actions were reportedly foiled by his father, Fred Trump, who took action to remove Trump as the sole controller of his estate as he feared that Trump could strip it and use it to rescue his own failing businesses.
Donald Trump sent his father, Fred Trump, a document that would strengthen his position as the sole executor of his father's estate as well as protect Trump's portion of the inheritance from creditors and his impending divorce settlement — a move that his father saw as an attempt to go behind his back, according to the Times.
Fred Trump, then 85, had not seen the documents and yet was instructed to sign them immediately, the Times reported.
He showed the documents to his daughter, Maryanne Trump Barry, then a federal judge, telling her, "This doesn’t pass the smell test."
Then he had lawyers draft new documents stripping Trump of sole control over his father’s estate. Notes from those lawyers show that Fred Trump's instructions were, "Protect assets from DJT, Donald’s creditors."
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