2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTin Foil Hat time
THIS LINK IS NO LONGER OPERABLE....GLAD I SAVED CONTENT
===============================================
impressed that I found a McIver connection on Trump's own website? Don't you hate it when you think you have a HUGE scoop but no one else does?
His great grandmother was a McIver. Coincidence? LOL
http://www.trumpgolfscotland.com/ancestry
Trump Scottish Ancestry
The Family History of Mary Anne MacLeod,
the Mother of Donald J. Trump
by Tony Reid
Genealogy
Mary Anne was born on 10th May 1912 at 3 Tong, Stornoway to Malcolm MacLeod and his wife Mary Smith. The family lived at Tong, a small fishing/crofting township lying 3-4 miles from Stornoway, the only town on the Isle of Lewis. The parents married in 1891 within the Free Church of Scotland, Tong. Malcolm was a local fisherman/crofter, the son of Alexander MacLeod and Annie MacLeod. At the time of the 1901 Census, Malcolm and Mary already had six children.
Alexander, also a crofter/fisherman, would have been born in about 1832. He married Ann MacLeod, also a Tong resident, in 1853 and died in Tong in 1900. According to his son Malcolm, who was the informant of his fathers death, Alexander was the son of William MacLeod, a crofter, and Catherine MacLeod. William died at nearby Vatisker in 1869 and, according to his son Alexander; he was the son of Kenneth MacLeod and [FONT COLOR=RED] Catherine McIver.
Cakes488
(874 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Thanks
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)forgotten . There is a supposed Trump aide/speechwriter named Meredith McIver who took the fall for Melania stealing Michelle's speech. But...MM had no past. Had no social media info....except some recent, presumably manufactured facebook pages and a voter ID - nothing else. The Trumps said she was a speechwriter. In fact, she is listed as "co-author" on most all of Trump's books. But, no published bona fides. So, many think she is a real person but was invented by Trump to take the fall when needed. He has a propensity to invent pseudonyms.
Bottom line, if she is invented, what better name than a name from Trump's past, his great grandmother is named McIver.
I have been following this and when the website went dark...immediately went to tin foil hat-ness.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)I love DU - Thank you for that background and connection of dots...
sofa king
(10,857 posts)I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess this isn't about a hero engineer who fashions a solution at the eleventh hour out of duct tape and zip ties.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Seriously, my brain has run out of room for Trump scandals, miscues and embarrassing deeds.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)amazed, being with my Dem sisters for a week on vacation, how many times one of us said. "Oh ya, forgot about that one."
Think Hillary should spend the next debate bringing up every single one of his lunatic comments/issues. why the hell not.
Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)donco
(1,548 posts)not any McClures lurking in tRumps ancestry.
matt819
(10,749 posts)A brilliant find. It's amazing "the media" let this one slide.