US President Donald Trump’s brother Robert Trump has sued niece Mary Trump in an attempt to stop her own tell-all book.
According to PEOPLE, this comes days after Donald Trump’s administration tried and failed to block the release of his former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s new memoir.
Mary’s soon-to-be-released book dubbed ‘Too Much and Never Enough’ will be, according to her publisher, a “revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him.”
Mary’s memoir will, according to her publisher, describe “a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse” within the Trump family.
The book is also expected to confirm Mary as a key source in a New York Times investigation of Trump family finances published in 2018, for which she provided confidential documents.
‘Too Much and Never Enough’, subtitled “How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” is due out July 28th 2020.
Trump’s brother Robert filed a request for a temporary restraining order against Mary and Simon & Schuster, which also published Bolton’s recent memoir.
In a statement given to the Times this week, Robert Trump said his niece’s decision to write a tell-all was “truly a disgrace.”
Robert’s attorney Charles Harder asks the Queens County Surrogate’s Court to stop Mary’s book on the basis that the memoir violates a 2001 confidentiality agreement she signed with other immediate members of the Trump family.
The nondisclosure agreement she signed was concerning a past legal battle over her grandfather Fred Trump Sr.’s will, the filing states. The Trump patriarch died in 1999.
In response, Mary and her publisher said the requested restraining order amounted to censorship.
