Trump’s Focus on Combating Opioid Crisis Reflects Late Brother’s Struggle with Alcoholism

President Donald Trump speaks at the signing of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund bill in the White House Rose Garden in Washington D.C. on July 29, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

President Donald Trump said that his brother Fred Trump’s experience with alcoholism has helped drive him to fight the opioid crisis and reflect on how he had “put pressure” on his brother, expressing regret for doing so.

Trump recalled arriving home in the 1960s and finding Fred Jr. reading books about aviation because he wanted to be a pilot.