==Robert Trump: Dutchess resident remembered as 'giving and grateful'
Robert Trump's legacy extends beyond his older brother, his ties to the presidency and a real estate empire, or a last name recognizable around the world==
A very kind and gracious article
Friends and neighbors in Dutchess County are remembering the 71-year-old as a "renaissance man," living out his retirement years with a generous and gentlemanly nature.
•••“He is an extremely grateful man,” Dutchess County Sheriff Butch Anderson said Friday of Robert Trump, whom he described as a "personal friend" for more 15 to 20 years. “He gave to a lot of organizations and orphanages, especially for animals. He gave to a lot of children’s’ functions. He was always willing to help the children. That’s where we became friends.”
•••Robert Trump died Saturday after being hospitalized at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan.
•••His older brother by two years, President Donald Trump, visited him Friday afternoon. White House officials on Friday said Robert Trump was seriously ill, but did not provide specifics and a cause of death has not been disclosed
••••“It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” Donald Trump said in a statement. “He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.”
•••Robert Trump's ties to the community include involvement in fundraising for local charities; Monte's Local Kitchen & Tap Room, the Amenia restaurant that was owned by his wife, Ann Marie Pallan, before it closed June 22; and Trump National Golf Club, Hudson Valley, in Stormville, which is owned by his brother.
•••Mindy Levine, who lives part-time in Pawling with her husband, New York Yankees President Randy Levine, called Robert Trump and Pallan close friends.
•••"He's an extraordinarily fine man," said Mindy Levine said. "He's a throwback to the days when true gentlemen managed their Dutchess County farms with a gentle hand and a kind spirit. He was in many ways a renaissance man, overshadowed by his brother's high profile perhaps, but a force in his own right."
•••Mindy Levine echoed Anderson's assessment of Robert Trump's giving nature as she spoke of the couple being, "quite philanthropic and for all the right reasons."
•••Donald and Robert were among five kids raised by Fred and Mary Ann Trump. The oldest, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a retired Federal judge; the oldest son, Fred Jr., died in 1981 due to alcoholism; and the fourth, Elizabeth Trump Grau was an executive in the banking industry. Robert, born in 1948, was the youngest.
•••A businessman who worked in the Trump organization, Robert Trump had been married to socialite Blaine Trump for two-and-a-half decades but the two divorced more than a decade ago. He married Pallan, his longtime girlfriend earlier this year.
•••Michael McCormack, Dutchess County's GOP chairman, knew Robert Trump for several years, since he moved to Dutchess County. He described him as a family man who was “down-to-earth,” “genuine” and “community-minded.
•••“We would be out at his place and we’d get into these conversations about soccer, about the English Premier League, that most people don’t get because they don’t play soccer,” McCormack said, adding that both of them played soccer in college.
•••McCormack said when his brother, Timothy McCormack, died last year in a New York City helicopter crash, Robert Trump and Pallan provided support.
•••"He and Ann Marie came to the services and said to me how he understood what I was going through as he lost a brother, too," McCormack said. "He hugged me and said it is horrific losing a brother and I said it definitely is and we teared up."
•••McCormack called Robert Trump "very compassionate… I'm fortunate and honored to know him as my friend."….
https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2020/08/15/robert-trump-died-president-donald-trump-brother-montes-amenia-golf/5584688002/