One of Donald Trump’s older sisters, retired judge Maryanne Trump Barry, who criticized her brother in secretly recorded comments when he was president of the United States, died Monday at the age of 86. announced the New York Times.
Maryanne Trump is one of four brothers and sisters of Donald Trump, who at the age of 77 aims to be re-elected president of the United States in 2024, with Fred Trump Jr and Robert Trump, both deceased, and Elizabeth Trump, born in 1942 and still alive.
According to New York Times, which cites two relatives without naming them, she died Monday at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The cause of death was not known Monday morning. Donald Trump’s team could not immediately be reached Monday on the subject.
Appointed a judge in the state of New Jersey by then-US President Ronald Reagan in 1983, she was then appointed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1999 to a federal appeals court.
Criticism of his brother on a recording
Long known to be close to her younger brother, Maryanne Trump Barry burst into the 2020 presidential election campaign when the Washington Post had published his remarks recorded in 2018 and 2019 in secret by one of his nieces, Mary Trump, very critical of his uncle.
Describing him as “cruel”, “liar” and devoid of principles, Maryanne Trump Barry attacked in particular his migration policy, which had led to the separation of children and parents at the border and their sending to detention centers. detention. “All he wants is to please his electoral base,” she said according to these recordings. “He has no principles. None “.
Mary Trump published a book (Too Much and Never Enough – How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man Alive) by denouncing the “toxic family” from which the former President of the United States comes.