Mary Trump’s Book on President Donald Trump Hits Book Sales Gold

Judges overruled each case denying the president and his team’s requests for injunctions.

In favor of Mary Trump

On Monday, a judge lifted an order that had previously blocked her from publishing and distributing her work.

The move meant that Mary Trump has been given the freedom to issue her scathing memoir about her uncle, President Donald Trump.

President Trump’s brother also objected against the publication of Mary Trump’s book.

State Supreme Court Judge Hal B. Greenwald in Poughkeepsie, New York, rejected arguments by the brother, Robert Trump, that Mary Trump is blocked from talking about family members publicly by an agreement relatives made to settle the estate of her father after his death.

The judge said the confidentiality clauses in the 2001 agreement, “viewed in the context of the current Trump family circumstances in 2020, would ‘…offend public policy as a prior restraint on protected speech…'"

“Notwithstanding that the Book has been published and distributed in great quantities, to enjoin Mary L. Trump at this juncture would be incorrect and serve no purpose. It would be moot," the judge wrote.

Greenwald said the confidentiality agreement that settled multiple lawsuits mainly concerned the financial aspect of the deal, which isn't as interesting now as it might have been two decades ago.

“On the other hand the non-confidential part of the Agreement, the Trump family relationships may be more interesting now in 2020 with a Presidential election on the horizon," the judge said.