Donald Trump's ancestor is 'Viking chieftain Rurik' who helped found early Russian state
A Russian newspaper has claimed that Trump's ancestor was a Viking chieftain who founded the early Russian state in the ninth century.
Citing genealogical data, the pro-Kremlin publication Zavtra said that Trump is related through his Scottish-born mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, to Rurik, a Varangian chieftain who built a settlement near Novgorod, a historic city between Moscow and St Petersburg.
His dynasty is one of Europe's oldest and ruled Russia until 1598.
The newspaper said "there was nothing sensational" about the revelation of Trump's links to Russia via his mother, who was born in Scotland in 1912 and moved to the US when she was 17.
"Many US presidents are related to European Royal and aristocratic families, and those in turn are related to Rurik via marriage through the female lines," the newspaper said.
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