Trump Considers Suing His Niece Over Her Tell-All Book, Saying She Signed an NDA

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

This past Sunday, news broke that the president’s niece, Mary Trump, was on track to publish a “harrowing and salacious” book this summer about her world-famous uncle. By Sunday night, the president had been privately briefed on what he could expect from the upcoming book. By Tuesday, he had begun discussing siccing his lawyers on his niece.

According to two people familiar with the situation, Donald Trump has told people close to him that he’s getting his lawyers to look into the Mary Trump matter, to explore what could be done in the way of legal retribution—or at least a threat—likely in the form of a cease and desist letter. One of the sources with knowledge of the situation said that in the past couple of days, the president appeared irked by news of her book and at one point mentioned that Mary had signed an NDA years ago.

Mary Trump signed an NDA following a 2001 settlement after litigation disputing Fred Trump’s estate, according to people familiar with the matter. That NDA states she is not allowed to publish anything regarding the litigation or her relationship with Donald, Maryanne and Robert.

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Simon and Schuster declined to comment on any potential legal action, and the White House did not provide comment on this story by press time.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-considers-suing-his-niece-mary-trump-over-her-tell-all-book-saying-she-signed-an-nda

[catrose]

1. as all family members do

[kiri]

10. National archive of NDAs?

Imagine: There must be rooms and rooms filled with file cabinets bursting with NDAs.

[catrose]

21. Rofl

[Grokenstein]

32. You mean, just for Don-Don?

Maybe that could be his memorial library!
Folks could come in and read up on what a genuinely filthy bastard he always was, for years after the executions.

[lagomorph777]

42. OMG I was going to make an NDA joke yesterday but it seemed too far out to even be funny.

What a freak show of a family. Ewwww.

[niyad]

2. Hmmmm, wasn't the liar in chief bragging just the other day about how nice tightly united

that disgusting family is??

By the way, what kind of family has to have its members sign nda's?

[BigmanPigman]

26. He also said that ALL his conversations are confidential...

even the reporters at pressers are included! What a fucking moron!

[iluvtennis]

31. "What kind of family has to have its members sign nda's?" - Good one :-) nt

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Good. Discovery will be better than the book.

[AZ8theist]

4. Doturd can only read at a 4th grade level, so...

How does he even know what the NDA says?

[GopherGal]

16. Probably has lawyers draw cartoons of it for him

...until the lawyers realize he won't pay them.

[AZ8theist]

18. LOL!! But true!

Wonder what the billable rate is for cartoons......

[Firestorm49]

5. Oh, she'd probably be satisfied with three or four million.

[FM123]

6. Go for it Mary!

In 20 weeks, your uncle will have lost the election and will have bigger legal issues to worry about than suing his niece for breaking an NDA.

[WePurrsevere]

7. The more he pushes to hide, stifle & discredit all of those...

who know/have known him on a personal and professional level from speaking out, the more I think, Damn! Whatever stuff he's trying so very desperately to keep hidden/quiet must be incredibly horrible.

[mtngirl47]

11. This n/t

[jls4561]

8. Can't you break an NDA if it involves reporting a crime?

[highplainsdem]

14. What Trump's most worried about is her describing the family relationships and incidents that turned

him into the sociopathic malignant narcissist he is.

[Chainfire]

9. He should have named his daughter Sue....

Suing and winning are two different things. I wonder if he he had Uncle Sam sign an NDA?

You really have to be a crooked bastard to force everyone who comes in contact with to sign an NDA. The old boy needs to let a little sunshine into his cave.

[onetexan]

37. Ivanka must be russian for "Sue"

[C_U_L8R]

12. Discovery will be delicious.

NDA's cannot be used illicitly.

[Jarqui]

13. Chuck Berris needs to be reincarnated for this Gong Show of a Presidency nt

[LiberalFighter]

15. I would love for her attorney to castrate his attorneys.

[GopherGal]

20. Mary's and Simon and Schuster's Attorneys

I imagine her publisher would be getting behind her in the fight. It wouldn't be just Dastardly Donnie picking on his little-known niece, the way he's used to doing things. His attorneys would be going toe-to-toe with the attorneys of a big corporation with skin in the game.

[Walleye]

17. His little rowboat is springing leaks everywhere.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. We need a law to invalidate all NDAs upon assumption of public office

That would cure a lot of baggage

[onetexan]

38. not sure if that's feasible but i'm all for it

[bucolic_frolic]

40. Transparency, vetting

Tax returns, any candidate for anything gets a good going over by the press, why not NDA's? What are they hiding? It's public life, open book.

I agree with you of course, how feasible, how legal, how would you get them to pass it, but it would yield more information for voters

[cstanleytech]

22. He wont sure her as the risk is to great that something else during the case he did that was illegal

could be revealed.

[Nitram]

23. Trump can't win this one. He either let's his niece hang out the family's dirty laundry, or

he sues his own family in court.

[Miguelito Loveless]

24. And then the laundry

gets hung out anyway.

But, this is about stopping the book until the day after the election.

[Nitram]

25. Good luck with that.

The leaks alone will do the deed.

[Miguelito Loveless]

28. Agreed,

and his case is baseless.

[cstanleytech]

29. No, I think its more about Trump using it as free PR like he did during the last election

with the media as he was able to play them to keep his name out there with a ton of free PR.

[Scruffy1]

27. Most lawyers I know consider NDA's as laughable.

He's dumb enough to think they are really enforcable. This is especially true if it was coerced.

[onetexan]

39. He may not be able to enforce the NDAs but i'm sure that won't stop LowBarr from suing as a delay

tactic, just through general election to ensure the niece's book doesn't hurt his reelection chances. Damn fool faces either get reelected or face being prosecuted. Not hard to see which path he'll choose.

[not_the_one]

41. Then how come, with few exceptions, no one has broken one yet?

Did Stormy break one? (we now know TOO much about mushrooms... )

NDAs are to hide what you don't want people to know. What exactly is he doing that he doesn't want anyone to know? And why is it that EVERYONE who deals with him has to sign one?

The turd feels that rules don't apply to him, and he is constantly performing criminal acts, therefore he must have the ndas.

You only hide what you don't want seen.

Enquiring Minds DO want to know what he is hiding.

[Gore1FL]

30. I guess it's nice that he is validating the book by these actions.

I doubt it will stop the book or harm the sales.

[sarcasmo]

33. Birth NDA with the Trump Klan.

[TeamPooka]

34. NDA was before he became a public figure. Probably won't hold up. Most don't in court.

[tclambert]

35. Do you think he made his children sign NDAs?

Surely Jared did. And of course Melania.

[duforsure]

36. Discovery will be fun to watch

Let him sue , then make more money from him when attacks her with threats and false claims. This is just more intimidation and abuse of power because he will conspire with barr to stop her book from getting out. When they both are ousted they'll be crying and whining they are the victims being prosecuted , when they are the criminals . trump and barr testifying under oath will be interesting since both are extreme liars. He will back off doing this when he realizes it will expose him a lot more. Barr will have a lot of explaining to do to .

[sdfernando]

43. Thats all this guy does...threaten to sue...when he does sue

he loses...so go ahead.

...and a thought just occurred to me. I think I read where Mary said she had a basement full of trump family documents....would be ashamed if they suddenly disappeared after leaving the basement door unlocked accidentally....just sayin.