A U.S. appellate judge has temporarily lifted the ban on the publication of a niece by Donald Trump’s niece. This emerges from court documents published today. However, it is still unclear whether the book can be published and the legal dispute has not yet ended. In the book, Mary Trump describes the US president as „the most dangerous man in the world“.
The decision of New York appellate judge Alan Scheinkman was just another step in the legal dispute over the book. Scheinkman allowed Simon & Schuster to continue with its preparations for the book’s publication, which is scheduled for late July. It is still unclear whether publication will ultimately be permitted.
For the time being, Scheinkman ignored the central question of whether Mary Trump violated a silence agreement with her billionaire family. He only stated that this agreement did not apply to Simon & Schuster. There is also a second injunction against the book, according to Mary Trump’s lawyer Ted Boutrous, which he also contests.
„Bright spotlight on dark history“
The president’s brother, Robert S. Trump, takes action against the book. He accuses his niece of violating an earlier silence agreement on the legacy of the family patriarch Fred Trump – the father of Robert and Donald Trump.
Psychologist Mary Trump is the daughter of President Trump’s late brother Fred Trump junior. In her book, according to Simon & Schuster, she paints a devastating picture of her relatives. According to the publisher’s announcement, the work casts a „bright spotlight on the dark history of the family“. Mary Trump explains how Donald Trump has become the man „who is now endangering global health, economic security and social cohesion“.
In recent years, revelation books about Trump have repeatedly caused a lot of turmoil. Most recently, a work by Trump’s former security advisor John Bolton made negative headlines about the president. Among other things, Bolton alleges that Trump has sought Chinese help for the presidential election next November. The US government had tried in vain to prevent the book from appearing.
