United States president, Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, has passed away. He died at the age of 71.
Robert died in New York on Saturday after being hospitalized for an undisclosed illness.
The US president confirmed the death in a statement, adding that Robert was his best friend and will be missed.
The statement reads: “It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” Trump said in a White House statement.
“He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.”
Trump had paid his brother a visit on Friday at a hospital in New York before his death.
There are no details on the cause of his death.
Robert Trump, who was born in 1948, had long been an integral part of the family real estate empire and was fiercely loyal to his older brother, Donald Trump.
Robert Trump unsuccessfully went to court to try to get an injunction preventing publication of a book by his niece Mary Trump, called “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
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