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Trump misses his brother Robert, who admitted to bullying him: "I sometimes have to be a bad guy"

According to the Associated Press, US President Trump's younger brother Robert died in New York on the 15th local time, at the age of 72.

Trump said in his statement: "It is with a heavy heart that I tell you that my good brother Robert passed away peacefully tonight" and that "he is not only my brother, but also my best friend." We will miss him very much and we will see him again in the future. He will remain in my heart forever. ”

Trump went to a hospital in New York on the 14th to visit his seriously ill brother.

Robert, born in 1948, the youngest of five Trump siblings with whom Trump is close, also filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family in June, asking to stop publishing a book about Trump by the president's niece Mary, but lost.

A graduate of Boston University, Robert began his career in the financial industry on Wall Street before joining the family-owned Trump Group as an executive to manage the group's real estate business.

Although Robert, like his brother Trump, is a businessman, he has a different personality from Trump. Trump has said his brother is "much quieter and more easygoing than I am."

Trump admitted to intimidating his younger brother when he was young. In his best-selling book The Art of the Deal, published in 1987, Trump wrote: "Robert is well-connected everywhere, we are very close, and that's good for me because I sometimes have to be the bad guy." ”

In the 1980s, Trump appointed Robert to the Atlantic City casino project, saying he was a good fit for the position. Yet Blair, author of The Trump Family: Three Generations of Empires, said that when business failed, "he (Trump) blamed Robert" and "he condemned Robert very clearly and angrily, and Robert withdrew and never worked for his brother again." ”

Robert, who quit the family business and was once a celebrity on Manhattan social networking sites, has kept a low profile in recent years. In early March, he married his longtime girlfriend, Annie.

Trump's older brother, Fred Trump Jr., was an alcoholic and died in 1981 at the age of 43. Trump still has two other sisters alive, Elizabeth Trump and Marianna Trump, who served as a former judge in the federal appeals court and has retired. (Compilation / Fengqin)

Source: Reference News Network

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