A judge has released Mary Trump, the president’s niece, to speak freely about her family in the lead-up to the release of her book, Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, which is set to be published Tuesday.
“The court got it right in rejecting the Trump family’s effort to squelch Mary Trump’s core political speech on important issues of public concern. The First Amendment forbids prior restraints because they are intolerable infringements on the right to participate in democracy. Tomorrow, the American public will be able to read Mary’s important words for themselves,” her attorney told the Daily Beast on Monday.
“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,” her spokesperson said in a statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Robert Trump, Mary’s uncle and the president’s younger brother, led the effort to keep the book from publishing and to force Mary to stay silent. A judge, however, denied the claim that Mary’s book was in violation of a family settlement or that there was any wrong done by the book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster.
“Plaintiff has not demonstrated any impropriety on behalf of S&S in obtaining the publishing rights to Mary L. Trump’s memoir or that S&S did not lawfully obtain the information,” wrote Judge Hal Greenwald.
“The unfettered right to publish is a sacred American freedom and a founding principle of our republic, and we applaud the Court for affirming well-established precedents against prior restraint and pre-publication injunctions,” a spokesman for the publisher said in a statement. “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.”
