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Donald Trump is joined on stage by his wife Melania Trump , daughter Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law Jared Kushner (L-R) at a February campaign rally in Iowa (Getty Images) Donald Trump would need hands the size of backhoes to clean up the garbage behind one of his son-in-law's East Village buildings. The refuse piled in the back yard of 118 East 4th Street was “Dickensian,” says longtime tenant Jennifer Hengen. It filled the sunken yard at least five steps high, and included “decomposing rat carcasses.” The building also went without gas for almost five months. Tenants got service turned back on in early March after they filed an “HP action” lawsuit in Housing Court demanding repairs from their landlord, Jared Kushner, and then filed a motion to hold him in contempt after his representatives didn’t show up for the first hearing. The building is one of more than 50 that Kushner—who married Donald Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka in 2009—has acquired over the last...