“Trump’s Real History of the United States” to be published by the Trump Press in early 2017

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Trump alleges Cruz father had ties to Oswald and Pershing used pig-blood bullets

These stories and more to be included in upcoming book

As reported by several news sources, Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump on Tuesday alleged that presidential rival Ted Cruz’s father was with John F. Kennedy’s assassin shortly before he murdered the president.

Trump’s source for the allegation is a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963.

“His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous,” Trump said Tuesday during a phone interview with Fox News. “What is this, right prior to his being shot, and nobody even brings it up. They don't even talk about that. That was reported, and nobody talks about it.”

“I mean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting?” Trump continued. “It’s horrible.”

Trump’s Oswald/Rafael Cruz connection comes within a month or so of his claim that legendary general and WWI allied commander, John J. Pershing, dipped bullets in pigs’ blood to counter a Muslim terrorist insurgency in the Philippines in the early 20^th century.

 "They were having terrorism problems, just like we do," Trump said, "And he (Pershing) caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pigs’ blood — you heard that, right? He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs’ blood. And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person, he said: You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened. And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem. Okay? Twenty-five years, there wasn’t a problem."

Despite the fact that historians have completely discredited both the Cruz and Pershing stories, Trump is standing by his allegations. So much so, that is now reported that Trump will include both events in his upcoming book, “Trump’s Real History of the United States” to be published by the Trump Press in early 2017.

In an exclusive, Around the Block can report that other chapters in the book will include:

The Truth behind the Lincoln Assassination, which claims that Lincoln’s murderer, John Wilkes Booth was actually an illegal Mexican immigrant named Juan Willka Cabina, one of the thousands of murderers and rapists streaming across the southern border in the 1860’s because the U.S. government had failed to build a wall.

Infamy: It Wasn’t the Japanese Who Attacked Pearl Harbor, which reveals that the planes that attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 were actually American, disguised as Japanese, and were part of Franklin Roosevelt’s scheme for the U.S. to enter the war in order to boost his plummeting poll numbers. 

Hamilton – Hip Hop He’s Not, which, in a reverse birther claim, debunks the idea that Alexander Hamilton was a partially black, illegitimate son of a Scottish immigrant father and a British West Indian mother, but rather the son of a moderately successful colonial New York real estate developer who, with a small inheritance, was responsible for building much of 18^th century lower Manhattan. 

In this telling, Trump also calls for the return of the recently awarded Pulitzer Prize to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical, “Hamilton,” which he calls a "complete lie."

9/11 – Dancing on the Rooftops, where, for the first time Trump reveals, in minute-by-minute detail, his watching of the “thousands and thousands of people” dancing and cheering in Jersey City, New Jersey as the World Trade Center towers were coming down.

1492 – It Wasn’t Just Columbus Who Sailed the Ocean Blue In this heretofore untold story of the discovery of the New World, Trump reveals that Christopher Columbus’ three ships, the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, were led on their voyage across the sea by a fourth ship, the Ungläubig, captained by Englelbert Drumpf, a Trump family ancestor, and that it was Drumpf, not Columbus who actually discovered America. 

Trump describes how descendants of both Columbus and Drumpf tried for decades, to no avail, to have this newly discovered world named after them, and how Donald Trump, when he is elected president, will by executive order, change the name of the United States of America to the United States of Drumpflandia "on my first day in office."

It is expected that more chapters will be revealed as the Trump presidential campaign rolls out to the general election and Mr. Trump finds more apocryphal stories he can use.