President Trump visited his youngest brother, Robert, at a New York City hospital on Friday.
Mr. Trump visited him at New York-Presbyterian for just under an hour on his way to his golf property in Bedminster, New Jersey. Various reports said the brother was in critical condition or “very ill.”
The president did not say what his brother is suffering from.
“I have a wonderful brother. We’ve had a great relationship for a long time, from day one,” Mr. Trump said at a White House briefing before he left. “Hopefully he’ll be all right, but he’s having a hard time.”
The younger Trump led a recent lawsuit against the president’s niece, Mary Trump, and her publisher Simon & Schuster over a tell-all book about the family. He said it violated an agreement Mary Trump reached with her two uncles and aunt Maryanne Trump in 2001.
Since then the book — “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” — has been widely read.
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