The younger brother of President Donald Trump, Robert Trump, has been admitted to New York Hospital, according to the White House.
The president is expected to visit his 72-year-old brother on Friday in a Manhattan hospital, according to White House spokesman Judd Deere. Trump was already scheduled to attend Friday’s visit to Bedminster, New Jersey.
The White House did not immediately release details about why Robert Trump was in the hospital, but officials said he was seriously ill.
Trump “has a very good relationship with his brother that is very special to him,” Deere said.
Robert Trump, one of the president’s four siblings, recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family who tried to stop the publication of a storybook of President Mary’s cousin with the title Too Much and Never Enough.
The president said Mary Trump’s book was in violation of a non-disclosure agreement she signed in connection with a financial arrangement she received from the Trump family. Mary is the daughter of the brothers’ oldest sibling, Fred Trump Jr., who struggled with alcoholism and died in 1981 at the age of 43.
No family members came with Fred Jr, known as Freddy, to the hospital on the night he died, Mary Trump said, adding that Donald Trump instead went to the movies with another sister.
Robert Trump had previously worked for his older brother as a top executive at the Trump Organization. Once a regular name on Manhattan’s social media pages, he has maintained a lower profile in recent years. He married his longtime girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan, in March, according to the New York Post. He divorced his first wife, Blaine Trump, more than a decade ago.
In a 2016 interview with the New York Post, he described himself as a big supporter of his brother’s run for the White House.
“I support Donald one thousand percent,” Robert Trump said.
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