Robert Trump, Younger Brother of President, Dies at 72

[lanlady]

Source: NY Times

Breaking now.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/politics/robert-s-trump-dead.html?action=click&module=Alert&pgtype=Homepage

[Polybius]

1. Don't know anything about this Trump, but my condolences to his family

How did he die, Covid?

[GB_RN]

2. It's all been hush-hush

Since he went to the hospital. After all, it would be super embarrassing for El Caudillo Del Mar-a-Lago if he was forced to admit a family member caught it and died. So it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if he had COVID-19.

[lanlady]

3. White House is not giving a cause of death

He’d been ill for a month or so but not clear what he was suffering from.

[Scarsdale]

18. Can a person die from "humiliation"?

Imagine being related to the worst person EVER to reside in the WH, and be Putin's puppet?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. He has supported Donny since their father died 1999 & they cut Fred Jr out of the inheritance

Including supporting him in 2016 and hugging him that ugly night.

This is despite Donny 6 Words blaming Robert for the failure of his Taj Mahal casino.

And despite DJT picking on him relentlessly as a child, the youngest brother.

[Scarsdale]

22. Gee, I wonder if

he filled out his voter mail-in ballot? Maybe he saw the "handwriting on the wall" that fat donny is losing, and decided to check out before the family is humiliated even more when they are all incarcerated?

[LiberalFighter]

56. His vote won't be counted. Election boards pull them out.

[Warpy]

4. He's the one who filed suit to suppress Mary Trump's book

which, considering he's been in and out of the hospital a lot over the last 2 months, is making me wonder just who had POA.

I've always had a very suspicious mind when it comes to that family.

Condolences to his nearest and dearest.

[niyad]

7. Don't forget, robert help traitorous murderer to defraud their oldest brothe's family out of their

inheritance. And he is the one who, rising from a near deathbed, went to court to try to stop Dr. Trump's book. No loss, no sympathy.

[Scarsdale]

19. To quote ze forst lay-dee

"I really don't care. Do U?" I wonder if he requested that Fat Donny NOT attend his funeral service? People are dying DAILY from the neglect of this administration in responding to the virus. Why does this man's death mean anything to the rest of us? I doubt Fat Don will shed any tears, since he has an election to steal - AGAIN. He was on his way to his golf game, when he stopped at the hospital, so what does he care?

[olegramps]

33. I will save my condolences for the victims of this fascist bastard. He Trumpy die-hard supporter.

[HoosierDebbie]

5. "He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again,"

"He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again," Trump is quoted as saying. If so, I say, it will be in Hell!

[niyad]

8. The sooner, the better.

[madaboutharry]

6. From the article:

“Had zero sense of entitlement.”

Mary Trump would call that statement a big fat lie. Robert Trump felt very entitled to participate in swindling Mary and her brother out of their father’s share of Fred Trump’s estate.

Robert Trump was just as greedy and treacherous as the rest of that family.

[generalbetrayus]

9. That's just the kind of year 2020 has been so far.

One of the two remaining Trump brothers dies, and it's the wrong one.

I'm most of the way through Mary Trump's book, and Robert was just another one of the Trump slimebags.

[Orrex]

10. It's a shame that Robert's older brother didn't die.

[Aussie105]

11. I know nothing about this Trump.

Was he one of the normal ones, or one of the demented ones?

Holding off cheering until I find out.

Trump must be worried though. Will he have thoughts of his own mortality and do a complete 180 and realize what a bad person he has been?
Doubt it, nothing overrides his 'I know everything better than anyone', 'I cannot be wrong, ever' and 'Anyway, I hate the whole human race' fallback positions.

[DeminPennswoods]

17. They are all damaged indivduals in some way

Robert was the youngest. From reading Mary Trump's book, I have the impression he just went along, got a job in the Trump organization and did whatever he did there. He was the point man for trying to get Mary and her brother Fred III to sign off on the amended will that gave their father's share to the other 4 siblings. He got pretty testy when they balked and hired a lawyer instead. The documents from that case are what formed the basis of the NYT story about how the Trumps commited tax avoidance/fraud.

[roamer65]

12. The Grim Reaper made a mistake.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

13. Oh well, it is what it is...

[llashram]

38. this

[videohead5]

14. Trump was out playing golf today

If I had a brother and he was in the hospital dying the last place I would've been is on a golf course.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. He was scheduled to visit him in hospital a day or so after he was admitted. Did he visit at all?

[videohead5]

26. I think he did

Visit his brother Friday. But knowing your brother was going to die and going to play a round of golf. I'm sorry but I would not want to even play golf.

[HotTeaBag]

46. He did visit, and as Rick Wilson says

everything that Trump touches dies - including his own brother apparently.

[stillcool]

51. oooh boy....that was good

[BumRushDaShow]

15. All the sources have corrected to say that Robert was 71.

[machI]

16. He was an austere ridiculous supremacist.

The closer to home, the better.

Rip Mr. Trump, we knew you not.

[pwb]

23. Did he die of the Hoax?

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[Bengus81]

28. Bet he did OR we could say on a dozen sites that some "lawyer who is very smart" said he died of CV

[Calista241]

55. The NYT reported he died of bleeding in his brain.

Damage sustained during a fall in the last few months, and the blood thinners he was on because of it.

[BlueStater]

24. Of course.

We’ve been wanting that orange motherfucker to croak for years and yet his younger brother is the one to bite it. Fate is an annoying tease.

Since President Asshole is a sociopath, I doubt he gives the slightest inkling of a shit about his brother. The only thing that’s going through his diseased mind right now is how he can exploit this for his benefit.

[UCmeNdc]

25. Corona Virus?

No one is saying what was the cause of death.

[PatSeg]

30. I can't think of any good reason

not to release the cause of death unless he died of something like syphilis. That leads me to believe it was possibly COVID-19.

[raccoon]

27. Several of you have already posted what a lot of people, me included, are thinking.

Darn it.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. The only good Trump

seems to be Mary.

[IrishEyes]

52. I have hope that some of the Trump's 10 grandkids turn out to be okay people.

They range in age from 1 to 9.

Mary's father seems like he might have been a decent person.

[LiberalFighter]

31. Trump can't be too far behind.

[NurseJackie]

32. Did he die from the Hoax-19?

[DeminPennswoods]

40. Since he was in neuro ICU,

some type of brain issue. Hard to guess what kind of brain problem. If it was a stroke, it's unlikely he'd have been released directly to home, then be able to initiate a lawsuit against his niece and her book. Maybe it was an anuersym they tried to treat, but when one of those bursts, death is almost immediate afaik. Inoperable, aggressive brain tumor maybe?

[SergeStorms]

42. From the article...

"Robert Trump, who took blood thinners, had experienced brain bleeds, which began after a recent fall, according to a family friend."

It seems the entire family has "brain" problems. Donald's is missing.

[DeminPennswoods]

48. Thanks

It's interesting the former president Carter had the same problem after a fall, but he's still alive and kicking.

Maybe God is sending the Trumps a message...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. It is what it is!

[brooklynite]

35. So, a funeral Trump will get invited to?

[SergeStorms]

43. Not if...

Donald has an early tee-time. He needs all the taxpayer money he can siphon off for his economically hemorrhaging golf courses. Donny's running out of time to steal as much taxpayer money as possible.

[lanlady]

50. LOL!

I'd pay good money to see Donald and his niece Mary in the same room.

[machoneman]

36. I have it on good authority: he did die of COVID-19. Ask me.....

how I know?

They have refused to release the cause of death and since the Trump family lies about EVERYTHING, they fear the real fact will eventually get out so they say nothing. Btw, when was the last time a prominent individual died and no cause was released? Hardly ever and I just made my point now didn't I?

[NCjack]

41. Could be AIDs.

[Marthe48]

37. He is free

from the torment.

[bluestarone]

39. GEE WHIZ

Couldn't the CHOSEN ONE save him??

[H2O Man]

44. May he rust in pieces

[KG]

45. oh. well. too bad.

[Seasider]

47. I just hope this doesn't give Trump a sympathy bump in the polls

[Mad_Dem_X]

49. Condolences to the family.

That's all I'm going to say.

[machoneman]

53. Best #1 answer: GOOD!

[mainer]

54. All they reveal is that he was on "blood thinners," as if that means it's not Covid.

But blood thinners are now standard therapy for Covid patients.

https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2020/07/what-is-known-about-covid-19-and-abnormal-blood-clotting

[LiberalFighter]

57. Shouldn't be too long for older Trump.

[GoneOffShore]

58. He was a shit.

Here's just one example - https://www.zimbio.com/The+Searched/articles/195/Ann+Marie+Pallan+Robert+Trump+secret+girlfriend