Steph Deschamps / November 16, 2023
One of Donald Trump's older sisters, retired judge Maryanne Trump Barry, who criticized her brother in secretly recorded remarks when he was president of the United States, died Monday at the age of 86, the New York Times reported.
One of Donald Trump's older sisters, retired judge Maryanne Trump Barry, who criticized her brother in secretly recorded remarks when he was president of the United States, died Monday at the age of 86, the New York Times reported.
Maryanne Trump is one of four siblings of Donald Trump, who at 77 is aiming to be re-elected President of the United States in 2024, along with Fred Trump Jr and Robert Trump, both deceased, and Elizabeth Trump, born in 1942 and still alive.
According to the New York Times, which quotes two unnamed relatives, she died on Monday at her home on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The cause of death was not known as of Monday morning.
Donald Trump's team could not immediately be reached Monday on the subject.
Appointed a New Jersey state judge by then U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1983, she was then appointed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1999 to a federal appeals court.
Long reputed to be close to her younger brother, Maryanne Trump Barry had burst into the 2020 presidential election campaign when the Washington Post published her remarks recorded in 2018 and 2019 in secret by one of her nieces, Mary Trump, highly critical of her uncle.
Calling him "cruel", "a liar" and unprincipled, Maryanne Trump Barry took particular aim at his migration policy, which had led to children and parents being separated at the border and sent to detention centers.
"All he wants to do is please his electoral base," she said according to these recordings. "He has no principles. He has no principles.