Maryanne Trump Barry, The Eldest Sister Of Former President Trump, Dies At 86

Mrs. Maryanne Trump Barry, former President Donald Trump’s eldest sister, has died, according to two persons familiar with the situation. She was 86 years old.

Barry, a former federal judge and prosecutor, was appointed to the Federal District Court in New Jersey by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. She was later appointed to the 3rd Court of Appeals by President Bill Clinton in 1999 and resigned in 2019.

Her retirement occurred during a probe into whether she broke judicial behavior guidelines by committing tax fraud in response to a New York Times article alleging that the former president and his siblings used tax methods to inflate their inheritances. A disclosure form from Barry’s Senate confirmation that included a $1 million gift from a Trump family-owned company played a critical – albeit unintended – role in exposing the alleged fraud.

Because she retired, the inquiry on Barry was closed, granting her the right to an annual retirement salary and immunity from judicial reprimand. Her lawyer refuted the accusations.

Maryanne Trump Barry, The Eldest Sister Of Former President Trump, Dies At 86

Donald Trump’s political career will soon draw more attention to his family. Barry never publicly expressed her disagreements with her brother, but audio clips from conversations between Barry and her niece, Mary Trump, in 2020 showed Barry criticizing the president-elect at the time harshly. The Washington Post was able to obtain the previously unreleased transcripts and recordings from Mary Trump.

Barry was one of the former president’s closest confidants throughout his life and one of the few people he sought advice from, yet a schism occurred during his final year in power when his niece revealed tapes of Barry criticizing her brother. Trump was genuinely offended by the remarks, a source close to the president told CNN at the time.

“Donald’s out for Donald,” Barry told her niece, a vocal critic of Trump’s presidency and author of the explosive book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man.”

“His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God,” Barry stated on tape. “I’m talking a little too freely, but you know.” The shift in narrative. The need for more planning. “The deception.”

During the recording, she refers to her younger brother as “cruel.”

Maryanne Trump Barry, The Eldest Sister Of Former President Trump, Dies At 86

“He has no principles,” Barry pointed out. “None.”

She further claimed her brother sought to steal credit for her legal career, adding, “I have never asked for a favour from him since 1981.”

In a November 2018 chat, Maryanne reportedly confessed to her niece that Trump enlisted someone to take an SAT exam for him – one of the most frequently publicized charges in Mary Trump’s book.

However, in 2015, the current Republican presidential frontrunner praised his sister and suggested she be considered for the Supreme Court.

“I think she would be phenomenal; I think she would be one of the best,” he said to Bloomberg TV, describing her as “very smart and a very good person.”

Mary Trump filed a lawsuit in 2020 against Donald Trump, Maryanne, and the executor of her late uncle Robert Trump’s estate, alleging that “they designed and carried out a complex scheme to syphon funds away from her interests, conceal their grift, and deceive her about the true value of what she had inherited.” Last year, a court dismissed the complaint, citing a decades-old settlement.

Maryanne Trump Barry, The Eldest Sister Of Former President Trump, Dies At 86

Maryanne, the oldest of five children, told New York Magazine in 2002 that she did not study law until her son was in sixth grade. According to the Federal Judicial Centre, she graduated from Hofstra University’s law school in 1974.

In the same interview, she stated that she did not want to join the family business because “I knew better even as a child than to even attempt to compete with Donald.”

SOURCE – (CNN)