President Donald Trump’s niece says the confidentiality agreement she signed 19 years ago under an inheritance agreement with her family does not prevent her from writing a revealing book about her uncle.
Mary L. Trump defended her next book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” in an affidavit filed Thursday, the day after a federal appeals court lifted an injunction. Temporary restriction blocking its publication by Simon And Schuster.
Mary, a psychologist, is asking the New York Supreme Court to lift a restraining order against her, arguing that the confidentiality agreement she signed almost two decades ago to end a dispute over the will of her grandfather Fred Trump. Sr was an irrelevant fraud.
She claims that at the time of signing she believed the asset amounts described in the deal were correct, but later learned that the valuations were false in a New York Times statement.
Mary also said that she “never believed” that the agreement would prevent her from telling her “life story,” which now includes “the conduct and character of my uncle, the acting president of the United States, during his reelection campaign.”
He also suggested that the agreement is irrelevant because President Trump “has spoken about our family and the dispute on numerous occasions.”
“ None of the parties to the Settlement Agreement, including my uncles Donald Trump and Robert Trump, or my aunt Maryanne Trump, has requested my permission to speak publicly about our family or their personal relationships with me, my brother Fred, or each other. ‘says the affidavit.
President Donald Trump’s niece Mary L. Trump (left) says the confidentiality clause she agreed to 19 years ago under an inheritance agreement with her family does not prevent her from writing her revealing book (right) about her uncle.
Mary’s attorneys said it is obvious that the President and his family “don’t want the American public to hear” their client’s story, but they said that “the First Amendment, the ordinary rules of contract law and the equitable principles of rock they defeat the extraordinary and unjustified petition of the applicant for precautionary measures’.
The Trump family dispute came to light last month after reports surfaced that Mary had written a book bomb that described a “nightmare of trauma, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse,” according to propaganda.
It is also expected to reveal that Mary was the primary source for the Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into Trump’s fiscal record.
That report, released in October 2018, found that the president received more than $ 400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire and had been involved in “ fraudulent ” tax schemes, crushing his self-made man image. same.
Mary’s book will hit stores nationwide on July 28 and is already ranked number one on Amazon’s best seller list.
President Trump’s brother Robert filed court documents last month to block publication of the book and obtained a temporary restraining order against Mary and Simon & Schuster.
But on Wednesday the court lifted the restraining order against the publisher, claiming that, unlike Mary, the company was not bound by a confidentiality agreement and therefore had the right to publish the book.
Mary said she “never believed” that the confidentiality agreement would prevent her from telling her “life story,” which now includes “the conduct and character of my uncle, the acting president of the United States, during his reelection campaign.” . Trump appears at rally on June 20
“While Mrs. Trump undoubtedly possesses the same expressive First Amendment rights that belong to all Americans, she also has the right to enter into contracts, including the right to terminate her First Amendment rights,” wrote the Presiding Judge Alan D. Scheinkman in his appeal ruling.
“Unlike Ms. Trump, Simon & Schuster has not agreed to give up or give up any of their First Amendment rights.”
Simon & Schuster responded to the appeal in a statement on Wednesday saying: ‘We support Mary L. Trump’s right to tell her story in Too Much and Never Enough, a work of great interest and importance to national discourse that deserves to be published by full. for the benefit of the American public. ”
The publisher has stated that they did not know that Mary had signed a confidentiality agreement.
Mary’s attorneys argued in Thursday’s affidavit that her restraining order should also be lifted, and wrote that Robert Trump ‘cannot succeed on the merits of his contractual claims because the confidentiality provision in the Dispute Settlement Agreement decades-long financial claims that the plaintiff invokes are unenforceable and unenforceable. ‘
Mary and her brother Fred III filed a lawsuit against the President, her younger brother Robert, and her sister Maryanne in 2000 for the improper termination of benefits and medical coverage. When Fred Sr died in 1999, Mary and her brother Fred Trump III challenged her will because they claimed that the Trump family exerted undue influence to remove them. Donald, Robert and Maryanne Trump are photographed together in 1990
Judge Hal B. Greenwald in the Dutchess County Court sided with Robert Trump on Tuesday, ordering Simon & Schuster to refrain from ‘publishing, printing or distributing’ any copy of the book before a hearing on 10 July.
Judge Sheinkman, however, said that the terms of Mary’s confidentiality agreement may have changed due to her uncle’s position as president.
Mary is one of the two children of Fred Trump Jr (pictured), the President’s older brother who died in 1981 after battling alcoholism.
‘The legitimate interest in preserving family secrets can be one thing for the family of a real estate developer, no matter how successful it is. It is another matter for the family of the President of the United States, “he said.
Although the restraining order has been lifted, the Trump family is expected to continue their battle for a court order.
The Trumps have claimed that they will suffer “irreparable harm” if the book is published, and that Mary breached her confidentiality agreement in writing it.
Mary is one of the two children of Fred Trump Jr, the President’s older brother who died in 1981 at age 40 after fighting alcoholism.
When Fred Sr died in 1999, Mary and her brother Fred Trump III challenged her will because they claimed that the Trump family exerted undue influence to remove them.
Mary claimed in a lawsuit that, in retaliation, the triumphs ended medical care on her side of the family.
In the request for the restraining order, the Trumps say that everything was resolved in 2001 under a ‘global’ agreement.
Read Mary Trump’s full affidavit below:
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