Judge temporarily blocks tell-all book by Trump's niece
Source: AP
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
A tell-all book by President Donald Trumps niece cannot be published until a judge decides the merits of claims by the presidents brother that its publication would violate a pact among family members, a judge said Tuesday.
New York state Supreme Court Judge Hal B. Greenwald in Poughkeepsie, New York, issued an order requiring the niece, Mary Trump, and her publisher to explain why they should not be blocked from publishing the book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Worlds Most Dangerous Man. A hearing was set for July 10.
The book, scheduled to be published July 28, was written by Mary Trump, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the presidents elder brother, who died in 1981. An online description of it says it reveals a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse.
The judge banned publishing, printing or distributing any book or any portions thereof before he decides the validity of Robert S. Trumps claims.
FILE- In this Thursday, June 25, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn after arriving on Marine One at the White House in Washington. The president's brother Robert Trump has filed a second court action seeking to halt publication of a tell-all book by the president's niece, after his first bid was rejected by a New York City judge. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Harker
(13,870 posts)to explain why a book should be published is ass backwards.
jimfields33
(15,450 posts)This wont stop the publication most likely. Judge just crossing the ts and dotting the is.
LudwigPastorius
(8,943 posts)The only reason I can think that the judge would place the burden of explaining why on the author would be if someone has produced an agreement signed by Mary Trump that no book would be published.
thecrow
(5,519 posts)makes its members sign NDAs ???
Tom Traubert
(117 posts)The Court signed an Order to Show Cause. Thats simply a routine legal mechanism by which the party initiating a legal action can get a preliminary injunction to preserve the status quo ante pending the disposition of the proceeding. Its hardly nefarious and not a big deal.
Harker
(13,870 posts)I'm prone to knee jerk reactions regarding book suppression.
Tom Traubert
(117 posts)Courts frown on prior restraints, and the the Fred Trumps chance of getting a permanent injunction faces an uphill battle. The NYS Supreme Court (trial level court in NY) is likely to say that the book can be published, but the author can face another lawsuit based on the breach of the NDA and slander, if any, and can seek to recover consequential damages, if there are any. But this proceeding is about delaying publication until after the election. Expect the Trumps to obstruct, delay and appeal as often they can.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)was stolen (which it was) and could be classified. (And even that had to be allowed to be published.)
A woman's life story isn't stolen and isn't classified. Who knows what this NDA even says or if it's at all enforceable (a lot of NDAs are not enforceable, as Trump himself has learned).
Worse comes to worst, she can go Bolton's route, and release the book to reviewers who read parts of it aloud.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)I hope she will move forward with it.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)We already know that that family is a band of miscreants who are rotten to the core and who make the movie, There Will be Blood look like a side-splitting comedy.
It is just a matter of details.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)She didn't sign a no book "pact", her dad did.
Princess Turandot
(4,784 posts)Their father had died 20 years earlier from complications of alcoholism.
maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)The Trump siblings will string this out until the end of time if they can.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)not to publish such a book without permission from the family. But her lawyer will appeal.
https://wbng.com/2020/06/30/judge-temporarily-blocks-tell-all-book-by-trumps-niece/
maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)What a pit of vipers.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)But you're saying it was a "promise" or a "pact" with the family. If so, then fuck them. She's burned that bridge already.
The Mouth
(3,122 posts)the ONLY abridgments to sharing of information (besides medical) should be verifiable national security.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)to overtake democratic values. Courts, if they're going to be viable supporters of rule of law, have to separate human constitutional rights from corporate proprietary secrets.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)A 'pact'. That's like a contract, right?
Donald has no problem breaking contracts.
Just ask his vendors and contractors.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)of Drumpf family members gathering in the woods in an occult ritual to enter into various pacts pertaining to family business.
Lonestarblue
(9,874 posts)Mary Trump needs to go to a foreign publisher to get the book published if the judge says she cant proceed. Her lawyer will appeal, and meanwhile a foreign publisher can release it to the world. I suspect a British or German or French publisher would be happy to do this. I imagine Simon & Shuster could negotiate a deal with a foreign company if they, or their parent company Viacom do not already own one.
Karma13612
(4,527 posts)niyad
(112,426 posts)capable of dealing with this matter (since iq45* and co. seem to know only incompetent shysters).
I am wondering why her earned title is neither on the. Book, nor in any articles about her.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)The Mouth
(3,122 posts)Everybody should know everything.