In 1930, an 18-year-old Scottish woman, her name was Mary Ann McLeod, she boarded the SS Transylvania, it was bound for New York. She came from the remote island of Lewis, it was a really rugged place shaped by hard weather and hard labor and limited opportunity. And like millions before here, she came to America searching for something better. Her sister had already come, and so when she arrived, she arrived with $50 in her pocket. She registered as a domestic, she was a nanny and a maid, a servant, and she lived that life through the depths of the Depression. And she slowly built herself a life here in New York City. Years later, she married a man named Frederick. He was the son of the German immigrants. They had first entered through America, through Castle Garden, remember I told you his name was Frederick at first. Well they got married and they raised five children in Queens, and eventually they had one of those children they named Donald. He would be the one that would inherit eventually the family business. But he had an appetite for risk and a willingness to think and bet big, lose big sometimes, but to bet big and dream big, and to pursue something even larger than the New York skyline itself. But before becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump had a lot of work to do. He cut his teeth in real estate, just past this wall in New York. And one purchase in particular, he called it his Mona Lisa, if you will. And it exemplifies his willingness to just take the bull by the horns. The building is at the heart of a lawsuit designed to ruin him. The address is 40 Wall Street.
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In 1930, an 18-year-old Scottish woman, her name was Mary Ann McLeod, she boarded the SS Transylvania, it was bound for New York. She came from the remote island of Lewis, it was a really rugged place shaped by hard weather and hard labor and limited opportunity. And like millions before here, she came to America searching for something better. Her sister had already come, and so when she arrived, she arrived with $50 in her pocket. She registered as a domestic, she was a nanny and a maid, a servant, and she lived that life through the depths of the Depression. And she slowly built herself a life here in New York City. Years later, she married a man named Frederick. He was the son of the German immigrants. They had first entered through America, through Castle Garden, remember I told you his name was Frederick at first. Well they got married and they raised five children in Queens, and eventually they had one of those children they named Donald. He would be the one that would inherit eventually the family business. But he had an appetite for risk and a willingness to think and bet big, lose big sometimes, but to bet big and dream big, and to pursue something even larger than the New York skyline itself. But before becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump had a lot of work to do. He cut his teeth in real estate, just past this wall in New York. And one purchase in particular, he called it his Mona Lisa, if you will. And it exemplifies his willingness to just take the bull by the horns. The building is at the heart of a lawsuit designed to ruin him. The address is 40 Wall Street.
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