- Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, are trying to lift a temporary restraining order on the publication of her memoirs, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World.”
- His book had been barred from publication earlier this week in a legal case related to a confidentiality agreement he signed almost 20 years ago amid a dispute over his grandfather’s will.
- Mary Trump says the confidentiality agreement was based on fraudulent financial information and that she did not know that it would prevent her from writing a memoir.
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President Donald Trump’s niece who is writing a revealing book about her family is trying to lift a restraining order on the publication of the memoirs, saying she was duped by a confidentiality agreement almost 20 years ago.
Mary Trump’s attorneys filed an affidavit in her ongoing legal case on the book on Thursday, arguing that the confidentiality agreement was based on fraudulent financial information, and that Mary Trump did not know that it would eventually prevent her from writing a memory, according to the Daily Beast.
Earlier this week, a judge temporarily banned Mary Trump from publishing “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World,” to be released on July 29.
The ban was established after Robert Trump, Donald Trump’s brother and Mary Trump’s uncle, claimed that Mary had broken a confidentiality agreement by writing the book.
In recent court filings, Mary Trump argues that she believed the confidentiality agreement she had signed to be unenforceable.
Mary Trump had signed the agreement in early 2001 linked to an inheritance dispute over her grandfather’s will.
In her recent affidavit, Mary Trump’s attorneys say she believed the assets in the will were correct at the time of signing, but later learned that they were fraudulent through a New York Times exposure, according to The Daily. Beast.
He also says, according to the affidavit seen by Daily Beast, that he did not know that the confidentiality agreement would prohibit him from writing a book about his life.
“Neither party 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 with each other.” , wrote.
Mary Trump’s book is billed as a “bright light on the dark history” of the Trump clan.
In the book, she alleges that she leaked documents that led to a New York Times investigation into Trump’s tax returns, and that Trump “dismissed and ridiculed” his own father when he succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease.
