Robert stormed out and never worked for him again directly.”After that, Robert Trump was sidelined in the company. Before that, Robert Trump was the one who spearheaded the family response in 1999 when Mary Trump and her brother, Fred Trump III, sued for their father’s share of the family estate. Robert Trump was already ill when he helped the president in the more recent lawsuit. The president’s decision to visit Robert Trump in the hospital is different from how he handled news in 1981 that his older brother, Fred Trump Jr., was in grave shape. According to Mary Trump’s account, Donald Trump went to the movies the night Fred Trump Jr. died.

Source: New York Times August 14, 2020 21:57 UTC