President Trump is considering suing his niece to put a stop to her “harrowing and salacious” tell-all family memoir and has dredged up an old nondisclosure agreement.
According to the Daily Beast, Trump has told close associates that he is seeking to apply legal pressure to Mary Trump, possibly in the form of a cease-and-desist letter. The president has mentioned an old NDA that she signed following a dispute over the will of her grandfather, Fred Trump Sr., the terms of which, according to the Daily Beast, bar her from publishing details of the litigation or her relationship with Donald Trump and his siblings, Maryanne and Robert.
According to a summary of the book, Mary Trump “explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.
“She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and [former wife] Ivana’s penchant for regifting, to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s,” the summary reads.
The book is also expected to reveal Trump’s niece as the source of confidential documents disclosed in a blockbuster New York Times investigation into the family’s “legally dubious” tax schemes in the 1990s.
Trump was briefed Sunday night on what he could expect from Mary Trump’s forthcoming book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, slated to arrive July 28.
Trump is also trying to stop another tell-all memoir from hitting bookshelves this summer, due June 23. On Tuesday, the Justice Department filed an injunction to stop the publication of the president’s former national security adviser John Bolton’s much-touted memoir, arguing that he breached nondisclosure agreements and is risking national security by disclosing classified material. A top DOJ official who appeared in the lawsuit resigned hours later.
