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Judge OK's Release of Tell-all Book by Trump's Niece

Reuters

   A NewYork state judge lifted a stay on Monday that had temporarily
   blocked Donald Trump's niece frompublishing a book offering an
   unflattering look at the U.S. president and his family.

   Justice Hal Greenwald of the state Supreme Court inPoughkeepsie, New
   York, denied the request to stop publicationand canceled the temporary
   restraining order he issued on June30 against Mary Trump and her
   publisher, Simon & Schuster,at the request of Robert Trump, the brother
   of thepresident.

   Simon & Schuster was due to release the book on Tuesday.

   Robert Trump said previously that the release of "Too Muchand Never
   Enough: How My Family Created the World's MostDangerous Man" would
   violate a confidentiality agreement tied tothe estate of his father,
   Fred Trump Sr., who died in 1999. MaryTrump, a trained psychologist, is
   Fred Trump'sgranddaughter.

   "Notwithstanding that the Book has been published anddistributed in
   great quantities, to enjoin Mary L. Trump at this juncture would be
   incorrect and serve no purpose," Greenwaldsaid in his decision.

   "It would be moot. ... To quote United States v. Bolton,2020, 'By the
   looks of it the horse is not just out of the barn,it is out of the
   country,'" he wrote.

   Mary Trump's attorney, Theodore Boutrous, said in astatement: "The
   court got it right in rejecting the Trump family's effort to squelch
   Mary Trump's core political speech onimportant issues of public
   concern."

   Lawyers for Robert Trump could not immediately be reachedfor comment.
   The book's publication comes as the Republicanpresident seeks a second
   term in the Nov. 3 election. WhiteHouse press secretary Kayleigh
   McEnany has described it as a"book of falsehoods."

   Mary Trump applies her training in psychology to conclude inthe book
   that the president likely suffers from narcissism andother clinical
   disorders - and was boosted to success by afather who fueled those
   traits.

   She writes of a "malignantly dysfunctional family" dominatedby a
   patriarch, Fred Trump, who showed little interest in hisfive children
   other than grooming an heir for hisreal-estatebusiness.

   Ultimately, he settled on Donald, she wrote, deciding thathis second
   son's "arrogance and bullying" would come in handy attheoffice,
   andencouraged it.

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