BEDMINSTER, NJ - A 20-year-old book
that appears to be bound in human skin has been found on the grounds of the 17th
hole buried in a sand trap of the Golf Course, Trump’s home away from home
following a burglary.
Detectives were trying to return Trump’s
property and believe it may have been taken from the country club office
library.
Much of the text is in fine branding
iron, and it was not uncommon around the time of Trump’s family of the ‘forties
and ‘fifties for books to be covered in human skin.
The practice, known as anthropodermic
bibliopegy, was sometimes used in the 18th and 19th centuries when accounts of
murder trials were bound in the killer's skin.
Anatomy books also were sometimes
bound in the skin of a dissected cadaver. In World War II, Nazis were accused
of using the skin from Holocaust victims to bind books.
In a brief statement, Bedminster
Police said the ledger, which contained branding iron marks, appears up to
date, and they the personal private accounting records of Trump’s world-wide
holdings.
According to reports from the
Bedminster police Trump explained, “The book is made up from my many daughter’s
skins, from the back.
Most people don’t know this about our
family, but we can grow skin at will. I take a sterile scalpel, Ivanka,
Tiffany, etc., opens their backs, I take about, oh, a two-feet by one and half
foot rectangle, and tan the skin. It doesn’t bother the girls their skin grows
back with a matter of minutes, a tremendous genetic plus in my genetic make-up…
We have lots of books from my family’s skins.”
The Bedminster Police Dep’t put two
photographs of the book on their Web site, but officers were unwilling on
Saturday to answer any questions about it, including the book's subject matter.
