The former federal judge and older sister of the former president (2017-2021) Maryanne Trump Barry died this Monday at her home in New York at the age of 86 from an unknown cause, according to The New York Times.

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Trump Barry, very close and protective of her brother, was found dead in her residence on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, according to a source for the newspaper.

Remember that trumpwho is running for the Republican nomination for the White House for the second time, paid more attention to what his sister said than to anyone else.

However, there was a rift between the two at the end of Trump’s presidency, when recordings secretly made by his niece Mary L. Trump were published, promoting a controversial book about the family, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” in which his aunt criticized his brother.

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In these recordings, which were obtained and released by The Washington Post, Maryanne Trump assured that the then president “has no principles” and regretted his “lack of preparation” for the position.

He also criticized the president’s policy of separating immigrant families and considered the president “cruel.”

Maryanne Trump She was a federal judge in New Jersey, a position that lawyer Roy M. Cohn, Trump’s mediator, helped her achieve during President Ronald Reagan’s term, the Times highlights.

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He retired from the judiciary in 2019 at a time when an investigation into the family’s tax practices was brewing.

The former president lost his younger brother, Robert S. Trump, in 2020, and his ex-wife Ivana, mother of his three oldest children, in 2020.



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