Mary Trump, the niece of President Trump
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Earlier this week, a judge granted the President’s brother Robert Trump, Mary Trump’s other uncle, a temporary restraining order against Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster, the publisher released her book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How my family created most of the world. ” Dangerous man.”
A New York appeals court promptly dismissed the order against the publisher, clearing the way for him to distribute the book, although the order still applies to Mary Trump. The book, scheduled for publication on July 28, is at the top of Amazon’s best-seller list.
In the affidavit, Mary Trump argues that she “never believed” that a confidentiality agreement she signed in the early 2000s regarding a dispute over her grandfather’s will “could restrict me from telling my life story or publishing a book about anything in the Book, including the conduct and character of my uncle, the acting President of the United States. “
He argued that the deal should not hold up, stating that when he signed it in 2001 he believed the asset amounts were correct, but after a 2018 New York Times exposition, he knew they were “fraudulent.”
Mary Trump added that the President and other family members have spoken publicly about the dispute before, but never “asked for my permission to speak publicly about our family or their personal relationships with me, my brother Fred, or with each other.”
In an adjacent motion, Mary Trump’s attorneys evoked the First Amendment as reasoning that Robert Trump’s restraining order should be lifted against his niece.
“The First Amendment, the ordinary rules of contract law and the equitable principles of base rock defeat the plaintiff’s extraordinary and unwarranted request for injunctive relief,” wrote Mary Trump’s attorney.
“The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits prior restrictions on the publication of books, especially books that comprise a central political discourse related to an acting president running for reelection.”
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