President Trump’s household is in search of a short lived restraining order to attempt to block publication of a tell-all e book by the president’s
President Trump’s household is in search of a short lived restraining order to attempt to block publication of a tell-all e book by the president’s niece, Mary L. Trump.
Ms. Trump is the daughter of the president’s late brother, Fred Trump Jr., and her e book, “Too A lot and By no means Sufficient: How My Household Created the World’s Most Harmful Man,” is scheduled to be revealed by Simon & Schuster on July 28.
An individual accustomed to the matter stated a request for a short lived restraining order was filed on Tuesday by Mr. Trump’s youthful brother, Robert S. Trump, in Queens County Surrogate’s Court docket, the place the property of the president’s father, Fred Trump Sr., was settled.
The submitting is towards Ms. Trump and Simon & Schuster, and it seeks to cease publication on the grounds that Ms. Trump is violating a nondisclosure settlement associated to the settlement of the property.
Officers on the Trump Group declined to touch upon the authorized efforts to cease the e book, which is described by the writer on its web site as a “revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the poisonous household that made him.”
Ms. Trump, the web site says, will present the “darkish historical past of their household as a way to clarify how her uncle turned the person who now threatens the world’s well being, financial safety and social material.”
Within the e book, Ms. Trump, 55, is predicted to say she was a chief supply for The New York Instances’s protection of the president’s funds, and that she offered the newspaper with confidential tax paperwork. A spokeswoman for The Instances declined to remark.
Robert Trump stated in an announcement that he was “deeply disenchanted” in his niece’s choice.
“Her try and sensationalize and mischaracterize our household relationship in spite of everything of those years for her personal monetary acquire is each a travesty and injustice to the reminiscence of my late brother, Fred, and our beloved mother and father,” he stated. “I and the remainder of my total household are so pleased with my fantastic brother, the president, and really feel that Mary’s actions are really a shame.”
Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., a lawyer for Ms. Trump, stated in an announcement that the president and his household have been making an attempt “to suppress a e book that can focus on issues of utmost public significance.”
“They’re pursuing this illegal prior restraint as a result of they are not looking for the general public to know the reality,” he stated. “The courts is not going to tolerate this brazen violation of the First Modification.”
In an interview with Axios final week, Mr. Trump stated of his niece, “She’s not allowed to jot down a e book.”
“You already know, after we settled along with her and her brother, who I do have a superb relationship with — she’s bought a brother, Fred, who I do have a superb relationship with — however after we settled,” he stated, she “signed a nondisclosure.”
The Trump household seems to be making an attempt to dam publication of the e book earlier than it’s printed and shipped to shops and warehouses. When the Justice Division went to court docket to cease publication of a tell-all account of his time within the White Home by the previous nationwide safety adviser John R. Bolton, the e book had already shipped and was set to go on sale a number of days later.