Mary Trump's Tell-All Book Temporarily Blocked in Court

[JoeOtterbein]

The Daily Beast

Mary Trump’s upcoming, explosive tell-all about the president has hit a temporary setback as a judge grants Robert Trump a temporary restraining order to halt publication.

Lachlan Cartwright
Senior Reporter
William Bredderman
Researcher
Updated Jun. 30, 2020 2:17PM ET / Published Jun. 30, 2020 12:42PM ET

A judge on Tuesday granted Robert Trump a temporary restraining order halting the publication of Mary Trump’s upcoming tell-all, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.

The injunction marks the first, tentative win for President Donald Trump’s younger brother in his war to stop the publication of his niece’s memoir, which The Daily Beast revealed earlier this month would contain allegations embarrassing to the First Family. The Trump siblings have maintained that the book, to be published by Simon & Schuster, violates the confidentiality clause that Mary Trump signed off on in the settlement of family patriarch Fred Trump Sr.’s estate.

Robert Trump and his celebrity attorney Charles Harder made their first play to block the book in Queens Surrogate Court—but the judge junked the suit almost immediately, telling the elder Trumps to refile in state Supreme Court. They took the advice, and submitted a new request for a temporary restraining order in Robert Trump’s home turf of Dutchess County, in upstate New York.

Robert Trump and his celebrity attorney Charles Harder made their first play to block the book in Queens Surrogate Court—but the judge junked the suit almost immediately, telling the elder Trumps to refile in state Supreme Court. They took the advice, and submitted a new request for a temporary restraining order in Robert Trump’s home turf of Dutchess County, in upstate New York.

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[grumpyduck]

1. Leak it.

She probably didn't write it for the money.

[tableturner]

2. It will be published....NO prior restraint of free speech!

[no_hypocrisy]

3. It's temporary and it's standard procedure in a Court of Equity.

It's taking a pause until the judge can hear both sides to decide what's really going on.

There is no evidence made public that there truly was a Non-Disclosure Agreement and if there is, whether it was signed or what the terms of the Agreement are. For all we know, the judge may find the provisions to be unconscionable and nullify the Agreement.

[erronis]

4. Thanks - those points make sense.

[tableturner]

7. Saw attorneys on TV saying it will be published even with valid NDA, then settled in court later.

The main questions in court would be:

1. Is the NDA valid and enforceable?

2. If so, what remedies or damages would be applicable.

What are your thoughts on this?

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Once Donald Trump won his legal action against the NFL.

The judge awarded him one ($1.00) dollar. Might see something like that.

I stand with my original contention that the alleged NDA has unconscionable terms that a judge won't enforce. It was a freaking litigation about the division of assets, not a divorce.

[empedocles]

5. Celebrity counsel filed in the wrong court?

Sounds like a trump hire.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. Probably

a friend of Rudy's!