Judge blocks release of book by Trump’s niece
Mary Trump’s book is said to be a scathing indictment
of her uncle, but it has become embroiled in a legal dispute.
By JOSH
GERSTEIN 6/30/20, 7:37 PM CET Updated 6/30/20, 7:42 PM CET
A New York
state judge has issued a temporary restraining order against a book U.S.
President Donald Trump’s niece Mary intended to publish next month offering an
unflattering account of her relationship with the president, his father Fred
and other family members.
Poughkeepsie-based
Judge Hal Greenwald issued the order Tuesday at the request of President
Trump’s brother Robert, who claims the book violates a non-disclosure agreement
that was part of the settlement of Fred Trump’s estate following his death in
1999.
The book is
not set for release until July 28, but the restraining order blocks publisher
Simon & Schuster from printing or distributing it in any fashion while the
judge considers issuing a longer-term injunction.
An attorney
for Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster, Ted Boutrous vowed an immediate appeal
and called the order “a prior restraint on core political speech that flatly
violates the First Amendment.”
“This book,
which addresses matters of great public concern and importance about a sitting
president in election year, should not be suppressed even for one day,”
Boutrous added.
Robert
Trump’s lawyer, Charles Harder, blasted the planned book as “truly
reprehensible.” Harder said his client plans to seek “enormous damages” against
Mary Trump and the publishing house unless plans for the book are abandoned.
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