Once again, Snyder arrived at the casino and collected the full amount in 30 more chips.

The next day, the bank wired another $150,000 into Fred’s account at the Castle. Snyder then walked over to a blackjack table, where a dealer paid out the entire amount in 670 gray $5,000 chips. The lawyer, Howard Snyder, approached the casino cage and handed over a certified check for $3.35 million, drawn on Fred’s account. So, as the Washington Post‘s Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher describe in their new book, Trump Revealed, the elder Trump sent a lawyer to the Trump Castle to sneak money straight into the ailing casino’s coffers. If Fred simply wrote Donald a check, the money would be used to pay off that debt. So it’s no surprise that Fred tried to bail his son out of trouble when Donald’s Trump Castle casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was about to miss an interest payment in December 1990.īy then, Trump had already defaulted on the debt from his Taj Mahal casino. This post was originally published as part of The Trump Files-a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current president-on September 26, 2016.ĭonald Trump’s career was built on help from his father, Fred, whether it was the years Trump spent managing his dad’s apartment building or the political connections and multimillion-dollar loan guarantee that made cash-strapped Donald’s first deals possible. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.

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