Mirror Online: LONDON, England – Donald Trump’s brother Robert has died in hospital after falling ill, the President has confirmed.
Robert Trump, who at 72 was two years younger than the president, was a business executive and real estate developer.
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.
The president is 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.
Robert’s cause of death was not revealed.
Trump told reporters on Friday that his brother was “having a hard time” with an undisclosed illness.
ABC News had reported that Robert Trump was hospitalised in the intensive care unit at Mount Sinai hospital in New York for more than a week in June.
That same month, Robert Trump won a temporary restraining order against his and the president’s niece, Mary Trump, to stop her from publishing a tell-all book that offered an unflattering look of the US president and his family.
A state supreme court judge in Poughkeepsie, New York, later denied a request to stop publication and canceled the temporary restraining order.
Robert Trump had said the book, ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,’ would violate a confidentiality agreement tied to the estate of his father Fred Trump Sr, who died in 1999.
