Thursday, June 25, 2020

VINDICTIVE NIECE TRYING TO MAKE SURE BIDEN DEFEATS HER UNCLE

Trump family say that 'no amount of money' can undo the damage that will be done if the president's niece Mary Trump is allowed to publish her bombshell tell-all book

 

By Daniel Bates

 

Daily Mail

June 24, 2020

 

The Trump family have claimed that 'no amount of monetary damages can ameliorate the loss' if Mary Trump is allowed to publish her tell-all book about them.

In their application for a temporary restraining order, the Trumps said that they would suffer 'irreparable harm' if Mary's book is released next month as planned.

They argued that Mary agreed not to write a memoir back in 2001 under the terms of a settlement which resolved a bitter family dispute over the estate of family patriarch Fred Trump Sr.

The agreement said that due to Donald Trump being famous and his sister Maryanne being a federal judge 'the family made the decision collectively to enter into an agreement that would maintain the confidentiality of the family's private matters'.

The Trumps are asking a judge in Queens, New York, to issue a temporary restraining order against Mary and for a hearing on July 31, three days after the book is due to be published.

The application sets up a First Amendment clash with Mary and her publishers Simon & Schuster.

Their lawyer Theodore Boutrous has said that the Trumps are 'pursuing this unlawful prior restraint because they do not want the public to know the truth'.

He said: 'The courts will not tolerate this brazen violation of the First Amendment'.

Mary's book is due to be called: 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man'.

The blurb says that Mary, 55, a psychologist, describes a 'nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse'.

Mary is one of two children by Fred Trump Jr, the President's older brother who died in 1982 aged 42 after battling alcoholism.

When Fred Sr died in 1999, Mary and her brother Fred Trump III challenged his will because they claimed that the Trump family exerted undue influence to cut them out.

Mary claimed in a lawsuit that in retaliation the Trumps ended the healthcare for her side of the family.

In the application for the restraining order, which was filed in the Queen's Surrogate Court, which oversaw Fred Sr's probate, the Trumps say that everything was resolved in 2001 under a 'global' agreement.

The application states: 'Confidentiality was at the essence of the settlement agreement.

'Fred Trump Sr had been a famous figure in New York real estate. Fred's son Donald also had become a famous real estate developer.

'Fred's daughter, Judge Barry, was a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

'The court cases involving Fred Trump Sr's will had received extensive publicity and the family made the decision collectively to enter into an agreement that would maintain the confidentiality of the family's private matters'.

The financial terms have been blacked out and there are nine pages including sections on ground leases, a Trump-owned company and trusts set up in 1976.

The application does however note that Mary received a 'substantial' amount of money.

As part of the agreement Mary agreed to not 'directly or indirectly publish or cause to be published any diary, memoir, letter, story, photograph, interview, article, essay, account or description or deficient of any kind whatsoever, whether fictionalized or not, concerning their litigation with (the Trumps) or assist or provide information to others in connection therewith', the application states.

The only exception would be if Donald, Maryanne and their brother Robert gave consent.

Yet in an affidavit Robert Trump says that he 'never consented' to let Mary write her book.

The application states that under the agreement, if somebody breaches the 2001 settlement they agree that a temporary restraining order can be taken out against them.

It requests unspecified damages but notes: 'No amount of monetary damages can ameliorate the loss that will be suffered if Mary Trump is allowed to violate the settlement agreement and publish'.

The Trumps argue that an emergency injunction is needed because books are often sent to book stores weeks ahead of publication.

They appear to have learned the lessons from the book by Donald's former national security adviser John Bolton, which was hugely embarrassing for the President.

They went to court to stop 'The Room Where It Happened' from being published but a judge refused because much of it had already been made public through leaks.

The last time Mary spoke publicly about her family was 20 years ago in an article for the New York Daily News in which she said Donald and his siblings 'should be ashamed of themselves'.

She was reportedly the source for a New York Times investigation into the President in 2018 which demolished his image as a self made man.

In fact Donald received at least $413million from his father and was a millionaire by the time he was eight.

Mary's Twitter feed is an indication of what the tone of her book will be like and she called her uncle's election victory in 2016 the 'worst night of my life'.

The 55-year-old left her home on New York's Long Island over the weekend after news of her heavily contested tome broke. She drove her black Audi 270 miles to the condo on Cape Cod in Massachusetts that she bought in 2004 for $1.15 million, but is now worth nearly double that.

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