New York Supreme Court Judge Hal Greenwald ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump is free to release and discuss her damning book on the president’s family.
Mary Trump, daughter of the president’s deceased older brother, Fred Trump Jr., had been blocked from publicizing her highly anticipated tell-all by a temporary restraining order as her uncle Robert Trump sued her to impede its release. But Judge Greenwald shut down the restraints on Monday evening, allowing Mary Trump to promote her book on the eve of its scheduled publication.
In his decision, Greenwald said Robert Trump failed to prove any kind of violation or irreparable harm that would warrant blocking the book’s release. The judge also pointed out that the book’s discussion of the Trump family, which could be in the public interest ahead of a presidential election, was not covered in the 2001 Trump family confidentiality agreement.
The book, titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” is trending number one in Amazon’s bestseller list, and has made the list for the past three weeks.
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“Now that the unconstitutional gag order has finally been lifted, we are sure the White House and America are looking forward to finally hearing what Mary has to say,” Chris Bastardi, a spokesperson for Mary Trump, said in a statement on Monday.
Robert Trump claimed the book was a violation of family agreements from 2001 over the will of the family patriarch, Fred Trump Sr., and a New York court barred Mary Trump and her publisher, Simon & Schuster, from publicizing the book. But the state courts lifted the ruling on the publishing house, allowing it to continue with the book’s publication. Still, Mary Trump remained unable to speak about her book, barring her from any publicity appearances, until now.
In a statement, Simon & Schuster celebrated the court’s decision as a support for the “unfettered right to publish” as “a sacred American freedom.”
“TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH is a work of great significance, with very real implications for our national discourse, and we look forward to bringing it to a public that is clearly eager to read it,” the statement said.
The White House has denied the claims in the book, calling it an “opportunistic fantasy.”
