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

NEW YORK, KOMPAS.com — Mary Trump’s book on President Donald Trump has sold close to a million copies on preorders alone.

Mary Trump’s book publisher, Simon & Schuster, stated that it had sold a company record of 950,000 copies in combined print, digital, and audio editions since it was available for sale this week.

Mary’s Trump’s book “Too Much and Never Enough” is another anti-Trump book from the publishing company.

Simon & Schuster also published former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, John Bolton’s book “The Room Where It Happened.”

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His book sold nearly 800,000 copies in its first week when released in June.

President Donald Trump and his allies made attempts to stop Mary Trump’s book and that of John Bolton’s publication from being published.

Both the president and his allies accused Bolton of revealing classified information.

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Now, they are claiming Mary Trump violated a nondisclosure agreement.

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.

He also wrote that Robert Trump had not shown any damages that the book's publication would cause himself or the public.

Robert Trump is not frequently mentioned in the book that seeks to trace how family members were affected by the president's father, a successful real estate owner, and how the president may have developed some of the traits that have been most apparent at the White House.

Mary Trump, a trained psychologist and Donald Trump's only niece, wrote in the book that she had “no problem calling Donald a narcissist — he meets all nine criteria as outlined in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders."

The judge reversed orders he had issued temporarily blocking Mary Trump and her publisher, Simon & Schuster, from publishing or distributing a tell-all book about the president.

An appeals judge had already lifted the order blocking Simon & Schuster.

The book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” was originally to be published at the end of July.

The publisher announced last week it would be published Tuesday.

Mary Trump's lawyer, Theodore Boutrous Jr., said the judge “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,” he said in a statement.

In a statement, Simon & Schuster said it was “delighted that the Court has denied the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction, and vacated the Temporary Restraining Order against our author, Mary L. Trump."

It added: “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," it added.

“'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," wrote Simon & Schuster.

Messages seeking comment were left with an attorney for Robert Trump.

On the eve of its publication, Mary Trump's book was ranked No. 1 on the Amazon.com list of best-selling books.

(Writer: Larry Neumeister, Associated Press) 

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