Robert Trump, Donald's Brother, Hospitalized in NY

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Robert Trump, Donald's Brother, Hospitalized in NY Aug 15, 2020 20:13:27 GMT

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President Trump’s younger brother was fighting for his life against a mystery ailment in a Manhattan hospital Friday — just weeks after battling a niece in court over her controversial memoir that claims their family is riddled with dysfunction.

The president rushed to Robert Trump’s bedside following a White House news conference at which he openly expressed concern over his brother’s condition.

Trump called Robert, 72, a “wonderful brother” and said they’d had a “great relationship from Day One.

“Hopefully he’ll be all right, but he’s having a hard time,” the president said of Robert’s health battle.

A pool photo showed Trump arriving at NewYork-Presbyterian’s campus on the Upper East Side to see his brother around 4:15 p.m.

He left in a motorcade about 45 minutes later, headed for his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The White House did not immediately release details about why Robert Trump had been hospitalized, but officials said that he was seriously ill.

Trump “has a very good relationship with his brother who is very special to him”, Deere said.

Robert Trump, one of four siblings to the president, recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family seeking to stop publication of a tell-all book by the president’s niece Mary titled Too Much and Never Enough.

The president has said that Mary Trump’s book was a violation of a non-disclosure agreement she signed in connection with a financial settlement she received from the Trump family. Mary is the daughter of the brothers’ eldest sibling, Fred Trump Jr, who struggled with alcoholism and died in 1981 at the age of 43.

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Robert Trump, Donald's Brother, Hospitalized in NY Aug 16, 2020 19:07:33 GMT

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President Donald Trump's younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York, the president said in a statement. He was 71.

The president visited his brother at a New York City hospital on Friday after White House officials said he had become seriously ill. Officials did not immediately release a cause of death.

"It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight," Donald Trump said in a statement. “He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.”

The youngest of the Trump siblings had remained close to the 74-year-old president and, as recently as June, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family that unsuccessfully sought to stop publication of a tell-all book by the president’s niece, Mary.

Robert Trump had reportedly been hospitalized in the intensive care unit for several days that same month.

Both longtime businessmen, Robert and Donald had strikingly different personalities. Donald Trump once described his younger brother as “much quieter and easygoing than I am,” and "the only guy in my life whom I ever call ‘honey.’”

Robert Trump began his career on Wall Street working in corporate finance but later joined the family business, managing real estate holdings as a top executive in the Trump Organization.

“When he worked in the Trump Organization, he was known as the nice Trump," Gwenda Blair, a Trump family biographer, told The Associated Press. “Robert was the one people would try to get to intervene if there was a problem.”

Robert Stewart Trump was born in 1948, the youngest of New York City real estate developer Fred Trump's five children.

The president, more than two years older than Robert, admittedly bullied his brother in their younger years, even as he praised his loyalty and laid-back demeanor.

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Robert Trump, Donald's Brother, Hospitalized in NY Aug 23, 2020 4:33:00 GMT

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A funeral service for President Donald Trump's brother, Robert Trump, was held Friday afternoon at the White House.

Trump family members, including first lady Melania Trump, were in attendance, and the White House was earlier anticipating "several dozen" guests for the service, which was held in the East Room, a White House source told CNN.

Friday afternoon, the President and first lady accompanied the casket as it made its way down the front steps of the North Portico and was loaded into a hearse. The two did not make remarks to assembled reporters.

A White House official earlier confirmed to CNN the costs for the service at the White House will be privately paid for by the President.

Trump on Monday said he wanted to hold a service for his younger brother, who died Saturday, at the White House, telling reporters, "I think he'd be greatly honored. He loves our country. He loved our country so much. He was so proud of what we were doing and what we are doing for our country."

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Robert Trump, Donald's Brother, Hospitalized in NY Aug 30, 2020 0:03:47 GMT

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On August 15, President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump — who had been involved in a bitter legal battle with the president’s 55-year-old niece, Mary L. Trump — died at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 71. BuzzFeed journalist Jason Leopold is reporting, on Twitter, that he filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for documents on Robert Trump — and that the FBI, “responded in record time, saying any docs it had may have been destroyed.”

Leopold tweeted a copy of the letter, dated August 27, that he received from the FBI — which told him, “Based on the information you provided, we conducted a search of the places reasonably expected to have records. However, we were unable to identify records responsive to your request.”