Donald Trump’s older sister Maryanne has died: RIP
Trump was one of five children, but three of his siblings are now deceased. Only Elizabeth remains.
His other sister died yesterday:
Maryanne Trump Barry, a federal appellate judge and the older sister of former President Donald Trump, has died at age 86.
Barry was pronounced dead at her Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan by medical workers who were called to the scene after 4 a.m. ET on Monday, a spokesman for the New York Police Department told CNBC. There were no signs of trauma or foul play.
Barry was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1999 by then-President Bill Clinton. She largely avoided the spotlight that was constantly pointed at her brother, first as a television host and business personality and then as the president of the United States.
She spent two decades on the Philadelphia-based appeals court before retiring in the midst of a civil misconduct investigation related to her family’s alleged tax-dodging schemes.
In other words, the Feds went after her as part of their vendetta against Trump and his family.
Here’s what Trump himself had to say on the matter – and by the way, the headline for that story is “Trump Breaks Silence On Sister’s Death: Claims Her Life Was ‘Problem Free’ Before His Presidential Run.” Breaks silence? She died only yesterday:
The former president confirmed his sister’s death in a post on his social media platform Truth Social, calling her a “truly beautiful woman, tall and elegant, with a presence like no other,” going on to laud her as a “tremendous student, intellect and Judge.”
Trump also claimed his older sister’s life had been “largely problem free” and “PERFECT” until he “made it difficult for her” by running for president in 2016.
Trump’s strained relationship with his older sister was made known in a set of audio files obtained by multiple outlets from Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, in 2020, in which Maryanne Trump Barry claimed Trump “doesn’t read” and said his presidency had triggered family problems that she said would not end “until he’s out of there.”
That doesn’t seem all that harsh to me on the part of his sister. I don’t think he’s ever held himself out to be a big reader, nor do I care whether he is. And his presidency certainly has triggered problems for everyone in the family, problems which actually have only increased when he left office.
Trump also said this:
In his social media post Tuesday, Trump argued the “Fake News, and others, went after her mercilessly,” adding she was “made to suffer in those years from 2016 until her Retirement.”
I wouldn’t doubt it.
RIP.
Breaking silence is the new “commented”.
Another annoying thing is current over usage of “beloved”.
My guess was she was just frustrated at that moment and venting to her niece primarily due to the %&$#storm that was unleashed upon her (and everyone else in the family) after Trump rode down that escalator in 2015. She clearly resented his general obstinacy and outright belligerence against the powers that were trying to crush him and felt he was perhaps being selfish.
It’s strange because Mary Trump sued Donald, Robert and Maryanne to get what she believed was her rightful inheritance. From what CNN says, Mary believed Maryanne had been able to influence Fred Sr. when the brothers couldn’t. So there would have been some tensions and mixed emotions between Mary and Maryanne. Was Mary pretending to like Aunt Maryanne to get dirt on Donald? Was Maryanne trying to be nice to Mary and humoring her? Or were they drawn together in spite of everything when Trump announced his presidential run.
And the story that Maryanne did Donald’s homework and even took tests for him: apparently Maryanne said it but how much truth was there — could there be — in that? And the biggest mystery: what was up with Maryanne’s hair?
Lots of folks, at one time or another, think somebody in their family “has no principles. None.”
I do believe Trump is a bit too much of a Lombardi fan:
“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” Tho Vince’s Green Bay football teams were never called cheaters or players without principles.
The Democrats who persecuted the Trump family members know their semi-legal stuff won’t be cause of punishment, nor even much social comment.
But anything negative said about Donald by any in the family will be happily used to feed the Trump hate fires.
The total acceptance of Trump hate expression by protests and violence, is one of the influences Neo didn’t mention.
Trump hate fertilizes the Jew hate; like Palin hate, Bush hate, and Reagan hate before.
And the story that Maryanne did Donald’s homework and even took tests for him:
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Maryanne was a student at Mount Holyoke College from 1955 to 1959. The school’s located around Springfield, Massachusetts. She’d have been out of town about 85% of the the school year during that period (when her brother was between his 9th and 13th birthday). Trump was a boarding student at the New York Military Academy from 1959 to 1964; by some accounts, his father visited him frequently during his early years there. It was an all male school. Would the housemaster and other officials not have noticed his adult sister frequenting the campus?
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Maryanne Trump married David William Desmond in October 1959. If I’m not mistaken, David Desmond Sr was a commissioned officer in the Air Force at the time of the marriage. As of 1983, he was in the Navy, holding the rank of Chief Warrant Officer.
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The marriage produced one child, David William Desmond Jr., who was born in Queens in September 1960 and is the oldest of Fred Trump’s grandchildren. (He’s a clinical psychologist who has practiced in Manhattan. Unlike his cousin Mary, he passed his licensing examinations. His primary residence is now in Palm Beach. He married in 1992 and has one child).
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So, it’s the contention that during the first five years of her marriage, she was in Queens, not accompanying her husband on any postings, and traveling to Orange County, NY every week to do chores for her little brother?
The amount of ugly animosity Trump excites in some people is… what’s the word…. What’s coming to me is “aweful.” Sic.
What the Democrats and some Republicans have done to this country because of TDS is absolutely evil. To go after his sister and other family members who are basically innocent bystanders is unconscionable.
Here’s a video of Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) explaining to Merrick Garland what they have done to this country.
https://services.brid.tv/previews/index/1414275/37168/#fb
She knows tyranny. She was born in the USSR.
In a democratic republic politics should not be a Game of Thrones. But that’s what it’s become.
RIP Maryanne Trump.