MORE TRUTHS OF TRUMP EXPECTED IN A NEW “TELL ALL BOOK”

…  An early picture of the president’s older brother, Fred Trump

America is about to learn more about the insides of the president’s family

I would never actually be responsible for buying a book by a Trump family member.....that is until now.

A New York court this week lifted a temporary restraining order against the publication of a book by President Trump’s niece, Mary Trump.  Mary is the daughter of the president’s older brother, Fred Trump.  Fred died of an alcohol-related illness when Mary was 16 years old in 1981.

The lifting of the order that was brought on by Trump’s brother Robert, was filed to impose the restraining order against the book and against Ms. Trump.  This lifting of the order has enabled the publisher Simon & Schuster, to continue printing and distributing the explosive insider account by Ms. Trump.

Judge Alan Scheinkman, in lifting the restraining order against the publisher, wrote that “whatever legitimate public interest there may have been in the family disputes of a real estate developer and his relatives may be considerably heightened by that real estate developer now being President of the United States and a current candidate for re-election.”  However, the judge did leave in place the one order regarding Mary Trump, which he did not explain exactly why that was the case.

Mary Trump had once tried to stand up to her uncle Donald, but her book describes a “nightmare of family dysfunction”.

Ms. Trump, now at 55, is using her clinical background as a psychologist to dissect: “a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse, including the strange and harmful relationship between her late father and Donald Trump”.

Mary Trump’s lawyer, Theodore Boutrous Jr., said that he plans to file a detailed brief explaining why he believes the restraining order on his client Mary, should also be lifted.

“It is very good news that the prior restraint against Simon & Schuster has been vacated, and we look forward to filing our brief in the trial court explaining why the same result is required as to Ms. Trump, based on the First Amendment and basic contract law,” Boutrous said in a statement.

Even though the appellate division lifted the temporary restraining order, this was the effort by the president’s brother Robert to gain a temporary injunction against the book's publication and he had expected the injunction to continue.  Robert Trump’s lawyer, Charles J. Harder, did not respond to a request for comment.

Simon & Schuster said in their statement that they were gratified with the decision to overturn the temporary restraining order and, by citing what it called “well-established precedents against prior restraint and pre-publication injunctions,” said it is confident that the effort to impose a preliminary injunction also will be denied.

Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” has rocketed to the top of bestseller lists based on advance orders after a blizzard of publicity about how she would provide “an insider account of the family that shaped the man who became president”.

A description of the book from the publisher suggests it will draw heavily on her psychological studies of family dysfunction,

In a rare statement by Donald Trump, before he became president, he had said that the death of his older brother Fred had been “an event that had shaped him”.  However, there has never been an explanation for exactly what Donald meant by that statement.

After Mary Trump’s grandfather, Fred Sr. died in 1999, she and her brother Fred III waged a fight against others in the Trump family over their inheritance.  They asserted that they were being given far less than was expected.  The dispute was settled confidentially in 2001, and Robert Trump cited that agreement in saying Mary Trump had agreed not to publish anything about the family.

In the ruling Wednesday, the judge, Scheinkman noted that the confidential agreement barred each side from disclosing the terms of the settlement or “publishing any description of the litigation or their relationships” without the consent of all parties.  Although Mary Trump had agreed in that settlement that she or her agent could be subject to penalty if it was violated, Scheinkman said he did not find that Simon & Schuster qualified as her agent because it was not party to the original agreement.

Simon & Schuster said in a filing that they had not been aware of the terms of the settlement, but it said that it still had the right to publish the book without prior restraint.

I will probably buy a Kindle version of Mary’s book, or I may not have to if as expected, most of it will probably be available in the many excerpts that are expected to be published.

Between Ms. Trump’s book, and if and when Trump’s taxes are ever published, we will finally have the absolute proof of just how many lies Trump has been telling us about himself and his false successes for decades.

Copyright G. Ater 2020