She says she was very close to her brother, who told her he was battling depression before he died; indeed, the names of three psychiatrists she suggested to him were in his wallet when his body was found in a park outside Washington DC. "I did not see a suicide coming, yet when I was told that Vince was dead I knew that he had killed himself. Never for a minute have I doubted that," and "these outrageous suggestions have caused our family untold pain," she adds. "This is scurrilous enough coming from right-wing political operatives who have peddled conspiracy theories about Vince’s death for more than two decades. How could this be coming from the presumptive Republican nominee for president?"