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Mary Trump, Donald Trump’s Niece, Is Writing a Tell-All Book That Details How She Leaked Tax Papers to NYT
Donald Trump's niece Mary set to publish explosive book about her family | Books | The Guardian
Trump Considers Suing His Niece Mary Trump Over Her Tell-All Book, Saying She Signed an NDA - "The president has long favored using legal threats to stop people from writing books critical of him. Going after his own family may be next."
That will be fun.Donald Trump’s niece, his deceased brother’s daughter, is set to publish a tell-all book this summer that will detail “harrowing and salacious” stories about the president, according to people with knowledge of the project.
Mary Trump, 55, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and eldest grandchild of Fred Trump Sr., is scheduled to release Too Much And Never Enough on July 28, Simon & Schuster confirmed Monday, just weeks before the Republican National Convention.
One of the most explosive revelations Mary will detail in the book, according to people familiar with the matter, is how she played a critical role helping The New York Times print startling revelations about Trump’s taxes, including how he was involved in “fraudulent” tax schemes and had received more than $400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire.
Donald Trump's niece Mary set to publish explosive book about her family | Books | The Guardian
Mary’s father, Fred Jr, Donald’s brother, died in 1981 from a heart attack after a long struggle with alcoholism. Mary Trump’s book, the report says, will allege that his father, Fred Sr, and Donald “contributed to his death and neglected him at critical stages of his addiction”. The president has said in the past that he regretted having put pressure on his brother to run the family business.
Trump Considers Suing His Niece Mary Trump Over Her Tell-All Book, Saying She Signed an NDA - "The president has long favored using legal threats to stop people from writing books critical of him. Going after his own family may be next."
Trump has issued legal threats to at least two others who have written unflattering books about him. John Bolton and Michael Cohen: Trump Seethes About Michael Cohen’s Early Release and New Tell-All BookBy Sunday night, the president had been privately briefed on what he could expect from the upcoming book. By Tuesday, he had begun discussing siccing his lawyers on his niece.
According to two people familiar with the situation, Donald Trump has told people close to him that he’s getting his lawyers to look into the Mary Trump matter, to explore what could be done in the way of legal retribution—or at least a threat—likely in the form of a cease and desist letter.
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Mary Trump signed an NDA following a 2001 settlement after litigation disputing Fred Trump’s estate, according to people familiar with the matter. That NDA states she is not allowed to publish anything regarding the litigation or her relationship with Donald, Maryanne, and Robert.
The president also discussed pursuing legal options against Cohen, if anything in his ex-fixer’s upcoming, dishy book on Trump breaks attorney-client privilege or is deemed defamatory or libelous, according to two individuals familiar with the matter.
“He was not pleased when he found out Michael was getting out early,” one of the individuals bluntly stated.