A New York judge has released Mary Trump from a temporary restraining order, allowing the President’s niece to speak freely about her family and promote her widely anticipated tell-all book.
The ruling, made by Judge Hal Greenwald of the New York State Supreme Court, the state’s trial court, came just one day before the book was expected to hit shelves on Tuesday.
The book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” is listed as a bestseller on Amazon where it has already topped charts. The text has also grabbed the attention of media outlets in recent weeks where some of the book’s juicier portions were leaked following an earlier New York appellate judge reversal of a lower court’s temporary block of the book’s publication. But up until Monday, the book’s author, Mary Trump, had been barred from making appearances to promote the book.
Theodore Boutrous, the attorney who represented Mary Trump, lauded the court decision on Monday, saying that the court “got it right” in ruling to reject “the Trump family’s effort to squelch Mary Trump’s core political speech on important issues of public concern,” according to CNN.
“The First Amendment forbids prior restraints because they are intolerable infringements on the right to participate in democracy,” Boutrous added.
The motion to block the book had been brought by President Donald Trump’s brother, Robert Trump, who argued that it violated a 20-year-old confidentiality agreement over the will of her grandfather, Fred Trump Sr.
Simon & Schuster, the publishers, issued a statement to CNN after the ruling, saying it was “delighted” by the court’s decision.
“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,” Simon & Schuster said.
The White House has denied many of the book’s claims, including an accusation that the president cheated on his SATs, calling the claim “clearly in the author’s own financial self-interest.”
Rage tweet in 4, 3, 2. 1…
It’s gonna be a hot time in the White House tonight. And today, and probably for at least a week.
There really was not point in gagging her. There have been excerpts online about what’s in the book so hey, it was out there already. I hope she makes a shit load of money from the sale of her book, Unlike Bolton’s who I hope his book will be in the clearance bin by the end of the month.
I love that she can now freely go on news programs now because so many will not read her book. I am sure that the squatter in our White House has spittle flying in an irrational and apoplectic fit of routine madness.
If Resident Rump had even a shred of honor or dignity he would drop to his knees today, beg the forgiveness of the American people for all the destruction and death he has wrought, and resign right now, this minute.
But he is a coward, a traitor, and a sociopath so in love with his own image.
I never took seriously the temporary restraining order. Prior restraint simply cannot prevail over the first amendment.