Trump cut off nephew's medical care for cerebral palsy during dispute over inheritances: report

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President Donald Trump once cut off family payments for the medical care of his nephew, who had cerebral palsy, during a dispute over their inheritances.

The family’s eldest son, Fred Trump Jr., became an airline pilot instead of joining his namesake father and younger brother in the real estate business, but his children believed they would one day share in the family wealth after their father died from alcoholism in 1981 at age 42, reported The Washington Post.

However, after Fred Trump Sr. died in 1999, Donald Trump and his siblings fought to keep most of the money themselves — setting off a lawsuit a year later from Fred Trump III and Mary Trump accusing their relatives of persuading the family patriarch to change his will.

The future president responded by cutting off family company payments for medical care for Fred Trump III’s son, William, who had cerebral palsy.

“When [Fred III] sued us, we said: ‘Why should we give him medical coverage?'” Trump told The New York Daily News at the time.

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/16/trump-cut-off-nephews-medical-care-for-cerebral-palsy-during-dispute-over-inheritances-report_partner/