Who was Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump’s sister who died at 86

Its name will be familiar to few, and it’s no wonder: Maryanne Trump Barrysister of the former President of the United States Donald Trump, who died on November 13 at 86, was never a fan of the limelight. The woman was found lifeless in her New York apartment on Fifth Avenue and, according to her first indiscretions, she would have been a natural deathgiven that no trauma or wounds of any kind were found on his body.

In pension since 2011, Maryanne Trump Barry was a judge emeritus on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Federal Circuit, where she was appointed several times. Her first, in 1983, by the then President Ronald Reagan, while in 1999 she was appointed to the same role by Bill Clinton, her husband Hilary who in 2016 would have challenged her brother Donald in the elections.

Inflexible on more than one occasion at work, very little has always been said about her, with the exception of when in 2020 she made the news due to a recording released by her niece Mary, in which Barry strongly criticized his brother. A 15-hour audio, dating back to some conversations that took place in 2018 and 2019, which then ended up on the Washington Post. «He has no principles, none», Maryanne Trump said of her brother, “I speak too freely, but you know that. The change of stories. There lack of preparation. The lie. My goodness…”. Phrases extrapolated from the context in which they were pronounced, and therefore to be taken with a grain of salt, as always in similar situations where one tends to always see what is most convenient, but certainly clear on the opinion that the deceased had of her brother. “It’s cruel,” he said referring to his immigration policies, while years earlier, in his autobiography, he claimed that Donald got into the University of Pennsylvania thanks to the fact that someone else took the exams in his place. He had no doubt about this.

Maryanne Trump was Donald Trump’s older sister. Of her family, in addition to Donald, she is now the only one left Elizabeth, 81 years old, while Robert passed away in 2020 at 72 years old, and Fred Jr at 43 years old, in 1981. First a lawyer, then a judge, Maryanne Trump had been married twice. The first with David Desmondwith whom he had his only son, David William, born in 1960, who works as a psychologist, and then with John Barry, like you, a lawyer, who died in 2000. No comment, at least so far, has come from the former President in reference to his sister’s disappearance.