A New York judge on Thursday rejected on jurisdictional grounds a legal effort by President Trump’s brother to halt the publication of Mary Trump's tell-all book.
A New York surrogate's court judge rejected on jurisdictional grounds an effort by President Donald Trump's brother to halt the publication of a book by the president's niece, Mary Trump.
Robert Trump's lawyer, Charles Harder, said he would file a new suit in New York Supreme Court to try and block the book.Erin Schaff | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDonald Trump The president himself recently said that his niece, who is the daughter of his late older brother Fred Trump Jr., is subject to the nondisclosure agreement, and is "not allowed to write a book."
Its publisher, Simon & Schuster, has said the book is a "revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him." Mary Trump is expected in the book to confirm that she was the primary source for The New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning series about President Trump's finances.the book's publication.
Kelly suggested that Robert Trump could pursue his request for an injunction against Mary Trump and her publisher, Simon & Schuster, in New York State Supreme Court."Robert Trump, Mary Trump and the other family members who settled in 2001, agreed to jurisdiction of future disputes in the Surrogate's Court of Queens County, New York," Harder said.
Mary Trump's lawyer, Theodore Boutrous, in a statement to CNBC, praised the decision, saying, "The court has promptly and correctly held that it lacks jurisdiction to grant the Trump family's baseless request to suppress a book of utmost public importance.""Democracy thrives on the free exchange of ideas, and neither this court nor any other has authority to violate the Constitution by imposing a prior restraint on core political speech.
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