"The most important character in Donald Trump’s life was his father, Fred Trump, who... wasn’t always a paragon of ethics... [but] who built a #RealEstate empire that was ultimately worth almost $1 billion. Everything about him stood in sharp contrast to his son, who became “a black hole for Fred Trump’s cash.” That’s a fact #Donald has never acknowledged. Indeed, he diminished his father whenever possible, telling people: “My father, he could never do something like this.”