Robert Trump, the brother of President Donald Trump, is hospitalized in New York, said the White House on Friday.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany confirmed his brother’s hospitalization to news outlets and said the two brothers have a “very good relationship.”
Trump administration spokesman Judd Deere said that he “can confirm the report that the President’s brother is hospitalized,” according to CNN.
ABC News first reported on the development, citing sources that he is “very ill,” although Deere did not confirm the report.
Robert Trump previously worked with his older brother at the Trump Organization.
Earlier this year, he filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family to stop the publication of a tell-all book by the president’s niece, Mary Trump, titled “Too Much and Never Enough.”
The family stated that her book violated a nondisclosure agreement that she had signed in connection to the money she received from the Trump family. She’s the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., who died in 1981.
New York Supreme Court Judge Hal Greenwald last month ruled that Mary Trump could promote her book ahead of its scheduled publication.
But the White House denied the contents of the book, saying it’s fantasy.
“It’s a book of falsehoods, and that‘s about it,“ White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters in July. “It‘s ridiculous, absurd allegations that have absolutely no bearing in truth.“
The White House has not immediately responded to a request for comment about Trump’s hospitalization.