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Trump Niece's Tell-All Book Gets Early July 14 Release Date

Trump Niece's Tell-All Book Gets Early July 14 Release Date

The tell-all book by President Donald Trump’s niece Mary had its publication date advanced two weeks to July 14 -- four days after a judge is scheduled to hold a hearing on the family’s request for a preliminary injunction against publication.

Mary Trump’s publisher, Simon & Schuster Inc., said in a statement on Monday that it’s releasing the book sooner than its original July 28 date “due to high demand and extraordinary interest.” Robert Trump, her uncle and the president’s brother, has sued to block the book, alleging it violates a 20-year-old confidentiality agreement struck by family members to resolve a bitter legal fight over the will of Trump family patriarch Fred.

“The act by a sitting president to muzzle a private citizen is just the latest in a series of disturbing behaviors which have already destabilized a fractured nation in the face of a global pandemic,” Chris Bastardi, a spokesperson for Mary Trump, said in an emailed statement.

Charles Harder, the lawyer representing Robert Trump in the case, didn’t respond to an email seeking comment on the new date.

Mary Trump on Monday also asked Justice Hal Greenwald in Poughkeepsie, New York, to lift a temporary restraining order that was placed on her on June 30, arguing that her uncle hasn’t been harmed.

Robert Trump “has failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits of his claim and has not made any showing of harm justifying the banning of the book,” her lawyer Theodore Boutrous, of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, said in a letter to the court.

Greenwald issued a temporary restraining order against both Simon & Schuster and Mary Trump until a July 10 hearing. But an appeals court judge lifted the TRO from the publisher, freeing it to publicize the book ahead of its release.

The book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” will include purported psychological observations about the author’s “toxic” family and other personal information, including details from family gatherings. Simon & Schuster said on Monday that the memoir will help explain that Donald Trump reveres a “killer” instinct but disdains “qualities like empathy, kindness, and expertise.”

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