A New York judge on Monday lifted a temporary restraining order that prevents Mary Trump from discussing her next book about her uncle. President Trump
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Justice Hal Greenwald of the Dutchess County Supreme Court denied Robert Trump’s offer of a preliminary injunction preventing Mary Trump or her publisher, Simon & Schuster, from publishing or distributing “Too Much is Not Enough: How My Family Created the most dangerous man in the world. “
The development marked a victory for the President’s niece and a loss for her brother, who filed multiple lawsuits to block the release, alleging that Mary Trump was violating a confidentiality agreement (NDA) signed by members of the Trump family. It will allow Mary Trump to promote her book when it hits the shelves on Tuesday.
The book, which The Hill and other media reported on portions of last week, offers scathing criticism of President Trump, accusing him of a penchant for lying and cheating and describing him as a narcissist.
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, also paints a grim portrait of the Trump family, writing that the president’s father, Fred Trump, neglected his children and that his behavior had a lasting effect on President Trump and other family members.
Greenwald in the 20-page decision dismissed Robert Trump’s argument that Mary Trump’s book violated a 2001 contract signed by the family, describing the agreement as written as too broad. The judge also said it would be “debatable” to keep the Mary Trump restraining order in place at the current time.
“Even though the Book has been published and distributed in large numbers, banning MARY L. TRUMP at this time would be wrong and would be of no use. It would be debatable, ”Greenwald wrote in the decision issued Monday.
He wrote that stopping the publication and remembering hundreds of thousands of books would be an “insurmountable” task.
“From the looks of it, the horse is not just out of the stable, it’s out of the country,” Greenwald wrote, citing a DC judge’s opinion of a case involving a book written by former Trump national security adviser. John Bolton
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Robert Trump had tried to block publication of the book, alleging that Mary Trump was violating a confidentiality agreement that she signed when the family established the inheritance of Fred Trump. Attorneys for the president’s niece argued that preventing the book’s publication from representing a violation of the First Amendment.
In late June, Greenwald imposed a temporary restraining order on Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster pending arguments in the case, but an appeals judge later reduced the order to apply only to Mary Trump.
The publisher then uploaded the book’s publication two weeks to Tuesday, July 14.
Ted Boutrous, Mary Trump’s attorney, applauded the ruling as a victory for the First Amendment in a statement Monday night.
“The court was correct in rejecting the efforts of the Trump family to silence Mary Trump’s central political discourse on important issues of public interest,” Boutrous said. “The First Amendment prohibits prior restrictions because they are intolerable violations of the right to participate in democracy. Tomorrow, the American public will be able to read Mary’s important words for herself. “
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