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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Niece Presses Case Against Effort to Bar Publication of Her Book
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/mary-trump-book-publication.htmlMary L. Trump, whose pending tell-all memoir about her uncle President Trump has incited a court fight on the eve of publication, spoke out for the first time publicly about the battle, saying that her book has deep national relevance and that the legal contract the family has sought to use this month to stop its release was based on fraud.
Nearly 20 years ago, Ms. Trump, 55, signed a complicated settlement agreement with Mr. Trump and his two siblings that put an end to a bitter yearlong spat about the will of the family patriarch, the presidents father, Fred Trump Sr. Among the agreements provisions was a confidentiality clause that shielded the details of the pact and allowed Ms. Trump to keep her share of her inheritance.
But in an affidavit filed Thursday night in New York in the fight over the book, Ms. Trump claimed that she consented to the agreement and signed away her interests in several family properties only because Donald J. Trump and his siblings lied to her about how much they were worth.
I relied on the false valuations provided to me by my uncles and aunt and would never have entered into the agreement had I known the true value of the assets involved, she wrote. I never believed that the settlement agreement resolving discrete financial disputes could possibly restrict me from telling the story of my life or publishing a book.
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Trump's Niece Presses Case Against Effort to Bar Publication of Her Book (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2020
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kimbutgar
(21,211 posts)1. There must be some really bad stuff in this book about MF45
Chainfire
(17,647 posts)2. Regardless of whether it is officially released
It will be leaked, scanned and available on the web any day now.
doc03
(35,382 posts)3. Does Trump have everyone he comes in contact with sign
a NDA?
crickets
(25,983 posts)4. It sure does seem that way. nt
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)5. Kick