{"id":24747,"date":"2020-08-14T16:39:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=24747"},"modified":"2020-08-14T16:39:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:39:01","slug":"did-they-infect-trumps-brother-with-the-coronavirus-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=24747","title":{"rendered":"Did they infect Trump&#8217;s brother with the coronavirus on purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump brother hospitalized in New York: Sources<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>President expected to visit brother, Robert Trump, sources said.<\/h3>\n<p>By John Santucci, Katherine Faulders, and Aaron Katersky<br \/>\nABC NEWS<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=72378357\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, has been hospitalized in New York, sources told ABC News, a development confirmed by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The details of his condition remain unknown though he is described by several sources as &#8220;very ill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Early on Friday White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany confirmed the hospitalization to ABC News, and later the president addressed the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a wonderful brother. We&#8217;ve had a great relationship for a long time, from day one,&#8221; Donald Trump told reporters. &#8220;And he&#8217;s in the hospital right now, and hopefully he&#8217;ll be alright, but he is pretty &#8212; he&#8217;s having a bad time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sources told ABC News the president is expected to visit his brother today, though final details were still being worked out.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Robert Trump was hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Mount Sinai hospital in New York for more than a week.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Trump was most recently in the news after he led a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family seeking to stop publication of a tell-all book by the president&#8217;s niece, Mary, titled &#8220;Too Much and Never Enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump family claimed Mary Trump&#8217;s book was a violation of a nondisclosure agreement she signed in connection to a financial settlement she received from the family years prior.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Trump said at the time of the suit earlier this year that he was &#8220;deeply disappointed&#8221; in his niece&#8217;s decision to write such a book and that he and the &#8220;entire family&#8221; were &#8220;so proud of my wonderful brother, the president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-brother-hospitalized-york-sources\/story?id=72374353\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-brother-hospitalized-york-sources\/story?id=72374353<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump brother hospitalized in New York: Sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}