Donald Trump’s younger brother Robert dies aged 71 [Archive]

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Jimbuna

08-16-20, 05:39 AM

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trumps-younger-brother-robert-dies-aged-71-as-us-president-pays-tribute-to-his-best-friend/ar-BB1812wF?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout

Always sad when someone close to you passes away.

RIP

Gerald

08-16-20, 05:41 AM

I posted it in US tread!

Jimbuna

08-16-20, 06:27 AM

You mean 'thread'?

Tread = walk in a specified way.

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Gerald

08-16-20, 06:31 AM

You mean 'thread'?

Tread = walk in a specified way.

:O::03: :oops: Yes...misspelled syllable there.

Jimbuna

08-16-20, 06:36 AM

:03:

Mr Quatro

08-16-20, 10:03 AM

Didn't even know that Donald had a younger brother till now.

I heard one time that he had an older brother that died of alcohol and made Donald promise not to drink. Mr Trump kept that promise.

So I mentioned it in another thread after DT became the POTUS that he didn't drink and you know what response I got?

"Hitler didn't drink either" :D

em2nought

08-16-20, 11:16 AM

Been there, done that. I should send a sympathy card.

Jimbuna

08-16-20, 12:40 PM

August

08-16-20, 01:03 PM

vienna

08-17-20, 03:38 AM

Through the years, there have been many accounts of the rather distant relationship Donald had with his brother; many have recounted how not only DT, but the rest of the family at large, tended to treat Robert as a sort of low level employee; DT is reported to have once offered to dump Robert from the Trump Org. in order to secure funding for a deal; every wealthy family seems to have one relation who is treated as the odd man out and Robert seems to have served that function for DT...

It must have been a difficult existence for Robert and I hope he is treated well if there is an afterlife...

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Gerald

08-17-20, 03:58 AM

Yeah now the Democrats are saying that the wrong Trump died. Lovely people these leftists.Leftists with radical views..is nothing that turns me on.:nope:

Jimbuna

08-17-20, 06:39 AM

It must have been a difficult existence for Robert and I hope he is treated well if there is an afterlife...

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Was reading an article on him the other day (BBC iirc) and that was the conclusion I came to.

Onkel Neal

08-17-20, 10:49 AM

Gerald

08-17-20, 11:41 AM

Or me! :03: Dr Pepper rules!:up:

Torvald Von Mansee

08-18-20, 10:13 AM

"Cause of death not disclosed"

https://hbr.org/resources/images/article_assets/2018/11/nov18_16_882299664-850x478.jpg

Gee, I wonder why!?!? :har::har::har::har::har::har:

Skybird

08-18-20, 10:27 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-family-seeks-to-block-book-by-presidents-niece-that-calls-him-worlds-most-dangerous-man/2020/06/23/23b4058c-b590-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html

President Trump’s brother on Tuesday petitioned a New York court to block the publication of a book by Mary L. Trump that describes... (...)Robert Trump could not be reached for comment. His attorney, Charles J. Harder, provided a statement from Robert Trump that said: “I am deeply disappointed in my niece Mary’s decision to write a book concerning our family. Her attempt to sensationalize and mischaracterize our family relationship after all of these years for her own financial gain is both a travesty and injustice to the memory of my late brother Fred and our beloved parents. I and the rest of my entire family are so proud of my wonderful brother, the President, and feel that Mary’s actions are truly a disgrace.”

Just to remind you what guy some of you shed tears for.

vienna

08-18-20, 02:10 PM

I did find it interesting when the suit against Mary Trump was filed that, of all the Trump family members who were or could have been affected by her book, Robert was the titular filer of the suit; he probably had far less, given his exclusion from the Trump limelight, to lose or feel embarrassed about than anyone else in that family; when the suit was filed, my first thoughts were Robert was named as the plaintiff so as to disassociate the others from the suit and thus maintain their distance should the suit go south in a bad way; I also think Robert was very most likely not the instigator of the suit, but, rather, a 'shill' for those who wanted to appear 'above it all', a sort of 'plausible deniability' situation; I sense the lawsuit was just one more of a great many ill-uses of Robert by his morally and ethically deficient family; somehow, I am willing to give him a benefit of a doubt as to his direct complicity...

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Skybird

08-18-20, 03:28 PM

I considered before what you said, vienna, and that is why I did not post in this thread earlier. But it is the effect that counts, and after all Robert Trump did his part to try giving his older brother once again a shiny shine and a fine reputation and a free ride off any hooks. And thats what makes him an accomplice. When you decide to give continuing support to Donald Trump, defend him, work for him, then you support what he stands for and you help what he tries to do - and that then is where it say clearly: family or not, it counts against you. Mary Trump managed to decide against her malicous and obviously dysfunctional family, and that is where Robert trump failed.

Donald Trump causes desastrous consequences for his country, he negatively affects the lives of so many people inside and outside the US, he is a worst case scenario that causes shockwaves working far beyond the American borders. I cannot put family loyalty above all this ^ and conclude that it weighs heavier than the evil that gets supported this way . It does not. After all, it is only one dysfunctional family and not more. It is the US and even the major part fo the rest of the world in the other scale pan.

The same of course is true for all the minions outside the inner family circle who accept to work for and who support Trump. The complete political and support staff - is burnt by their acceptance to work for this rogue Führer. And they all share the guilt that Trump is to be blamed with. And this responsibility goes down to even those who just elected him. Voters are responsible for the votes they cast.

Catfish

08-18-20, 04:48 PM

You have to see it as a game. No one takes anything serious :D

vienna

08-18-20, 04:50 PM

I tend to think Robert was, as in so many aspects of Trump family actions, more of a front or pawn of the clan; it is a bit more plausible that DT or one of his spawn/relations, who had far more to lose than Robert, had the lawsuit filed under his name as a mask as to who or whom the lawsuit was really trying to protect; given his sort of family 'doormat' status, it is a bit difficult to see him actually being so proactive of his own volition; and DT and the others are well known for getting others to take the risks and blame for his and the other family members actions...

Remember, it is a hallmark of DT and his conniving kin to deflect as much responsibility for their misdeeds as possible; the quote "I don't take any responsibility" speaks volumes when it comes to the upper reaches of the Trump family...

Yes, voter is responsible for the vote he casts -- unless some one else is actually casting the vote in his/her name, possibly without the voter's active participation...

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Skybird

08-18-20, 04:59 PM

It takes two to abuse a pawn. The abuser - and the pawn allowing to get abused.

August

08-18-20, 05:41 PM

Leftists with radical views..is nothing that turns me on.:nope:

You seem to have drawn several of them to this thread judging by most of the posts.

Buddahaid

08-18-20, 07:17 PM

I don't see much of anything radical here at Subsim. What I see is any left or right thinking deemed as radical just by moving slightly off this tremendous peak that has grown in this century's politics. The all or nothing mindset without compromise that sees any compromise as failure instead of a partial win. Politics has become artless and the realm of the artless.

As to the thread subject, I'm highly curious as to the cause of death. The silence there leads one to believe it was Covid-19 because almost any other cause wouldn't be newsworthy. Herpes? AIDS?

August

08-18-20, 08:38 PM

Covid-19 Herpes? AIDS?

Does thinking about that excite you?

Buddahaid

08-18-20, 08:40 PM

What a useful comment and a complete diversion from discussion about the subject. You're better than that.

August

08-18-20, 10:20 PM

What a useful comment and a complete diversion from discussion about the subject. You're better than that.

Don't moralize to me Budda. You have no right. You are hoping that a mans death is something that you can use to play politics. That's just low.

Buddahaid

08-18-20, 10:39 PM

I'll moralize to you all I care too when you resort to puerile comments aimed at another member of the forum. There was nothing in your post concerning the thread topic so apparently you aren't better than that.

I still want to know the cause of death, don't you, or will that tarnish your lying hero?

Aktungbby

08-19-20, 01:31 AM

C'Mon now, you're both better than this. BuddhaBBY, I took your interest in cause of death, if from Covid, to be a possibly ironic and potentially political matter, striking close to PotUS, given the current state of the poor response at all political levels to the pandemic. The rest of the planet is apalled, even in the midst of their own travails at the perplexing inability of the world's supposedly most powerful nation :o to control the impact of this catastrophe.
Until this country knows relative joy again, most of the rest of the planet will not either....

vienna

08-19-20, 05:29 AM

I, also, was wondering about the mystery surrounding the cause of death and if it might have been Covid-related: if it was, DT will never admit it, and if it was some cause Robert's immediate family preferred to keep private, that is their right; it is not uncommon for wealthy/prominent families to conceal the cause of death of a member if it is potentially embarrassing or of a somewhat gruesome nature they would prefer not be fodder for the press; I once worked with a young lady at a law firm and mentioned to her I had heard a report about a former adviser to Regan who had died at his home in the LA region from undisclosed causes; she got a bit upset and took me aside, telling me his family and hers were close friends and her family was told the cause of death was suicide and she asked me to not comment further and keep the cause a secret since it was a sensitive point with her...

We may never know and, really in the sense of it all, it is perhaps none of our concern; Robert Trump was born into a hellish family and treated very poorly; at last his pains are over; I say let the man be...

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Platapus

08-19-20, 08:59 AM

I thought the US politics thread was over there --------------->

Mr Quatro

08-19-20, 09:36 AM

I thought the US politics thread was over there --------------->

:up: Yep! Time of grieving must be over :D

Jimbuna

08-19-20, 11:12 AM

she got a bit upset and took me aside, telling me his family and hers were close friends and her family was told the cause of death was suicide and she asked me to not comment further and keep the cause a secret since it was a sensitive point with her...

Then posted the story on SubSim :o

:haha::03:

vienna

08-19-20, 08:29 PM

Then posted the story on SubSim :o

:haha::03:

I would never have posted it if I didn't actually know it was a moot point; the death of the gentleman in question was eventually disclosed some time later as a suicide and was public knowledge in the press; the young lady in question (considerably older since it was well over 30 years ago) is unknown to you all and, unless someone really wants to do a search based on no name, so is the identity of the unfortunate fellow...

I tell no confidences if they are indeed confidential...

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Jimbuna

08-20-20, 05:10 AM

Not a problem, just took the opportunity to yank your chain :O:

vienna

08-20-20, 06:04 AM

Chain duly yanked... :salute:

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