NEW YORK ( HALBEEG NEWS) – US President’s younger brother, Robert Trump has died in a New York Hospital where he has been receiving treatment.
“It is with [a] heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” he said in a statement on Saturday.”
It is unclear what caused Robert Trump’s death but a number of US media reports suggested he had been seriously ill.
According to the New York Post, Robert spent more than a week in the intensive-care unit of Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital in June.
President Trump visited him in the hospital the day before his death, telling reporters: “He’s having a hard time.”
“He will be deeply missed by our entire family,” President Trump’s son Eric
wrote on Twitter.
Robert was the youngest of Fred and Mary Anne Trump’s five children and was born two years after his brother Donald.
Robert Trump spent much of his career with the family real-estate firm, becoming a top executive. Unlike his brother, however, he was said not to court publicity and lived semi-retired in New York state
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