The Times article detailed two streams of money that went to Trump before he went to work for his father, in 1968 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania -- money he would have been able to access before he "started out" in the business world.
One involved "ground lease payments," a financial strategy in which Fred Trump built apartment buildings, then set up lease agreements for the land under these buildings. The beneficiary of those lease agreements were Fred Trump's children -- eventually five, including Donald -- through a trust. Fred Trump set up ground leases for two of his developments in Brooklyn, the first of which became active when Donald Trump was 3 years old, the Times reported.