{"id":4533,"date":"2020-08-16T21:56:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2020-08-16T21:56:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T14:56:59","slug":"robert-trump-presidents-brother-shunned-spotlight-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/robert-trump-presidents-brother-shunned-spotlight-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Trump, president’s brother who shunned the spotlight, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Robert Trump, the younger brother of U.S. President Donald Trump and a business executive who avoided the spotlight, died on Saturday night, a day after the president visited him in a New York hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the New York Presbyterian Hospital to visit his younger brother Robert Trump in New York City, U.S., August 14, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n

President Trump announced the death in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight. He was not just my brother, he was my best friend,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe 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,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Robert Trump, who at 71 was younger than the 74-year-old president, was a business executive and real estate developer. Unlike his reality TV star brother, Robert Trump shunned the limelight.<\/p>\n

President Trump made an emotional visit to see his ailing brother on Friday at New York-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center before going to his golf club at Bedminster, New Jersey, for the weekend.<\/p>\n

The president was expected to attend the funeral, an aide said. He has a busy travel schedule in coming days with plans to visit four battleground states as part of his re-election campaign.<\/p>\n

The cause of death was not revealed. Trump told reporters on Friday that his brother was \u201chaving a hard time\u201d with an undisclosed illness. A person familiar with the situation said the brother had been on blood thinners.<\/p>\n

ABC News<\/em>\u00a0had reported that Robert Trump was hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Mount Sinai hospital in New York for more than a week in June.<\/p>\n

That month, Robert Trump won a temporary restraining order against his and the president\u2019s niece, Mary Trump, to stop her from publishing a tell-all book that offered an unflattering look of the president and his family.<\/p>\n

A state supreme court judge in Poughkeepsie, New York, later denied a request to stop publication and canceled the temporary restraining order.<\/p>\n

Robert Trump had said the book, \u201cToo Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World\u2019s Most Dangerous Man,\u201d would violate a confidentiality agreement tied to the estate of his father Fred Trump Sr, who died in 1999.<\/p>\n

The New York Post\u00a0<\/em>reported in March that Robert Trump had married his second wife, Ann Marie Pallan, and that they lived in a country home on Long Island.<\/p>\n

Two of Donald Trump\u2019s children expressed sadness about their uncle\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobert Trump was an incredible man – strong, kind and loyal to the core. Anyone who encountered him felt his warmth immediately. He will be deeply missed by our entire family,\u201d said Eric Trump in a tweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cUncle Robert, we love you. You are in our hearts and prayers, always,\u201d tweeted Ivanka Trump.<\/p>\n

Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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