President Donald Trump has paid tribute to his “best friend” and youngest brother following his death at 71.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It is with [a] heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” he said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The president had visited his brother in hospital in New York the day before his death, telling reporters: “He’s having a hard time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is unclear what caused Robert Trump’s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A number of US media reports suggested he had been seriously ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He was not just my brother, he was my best friend,” Donald Trump said in a statement on Saturday. “His memory will live on in my heart forever.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Trump’s son Eric described his uncle as an “incredible man – strong, kind and loyal to the core”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He will be deeply missed by our entire family,” he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Robert was the youngest of Fred and Mary Anne Trump’s five children, and was born two years after his brother Donald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The eldest of the children, Fred Jr, died in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Robert Trump spent much of his career with the family real-estate firm, becoming a top executive. Unlike his brother, however, he was said not to court publicity and lived semi-retired in New York state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He recently went to court in a failed bid to stop publication of his niece Mary Trump’s tell-all book about the president, How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the New York Post, Robert spent more than a week in the intensive-care unit of Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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