Why would they give advance notice to trump when they know what he’s like? I don’t see how the hype is worth the legal battles. So what’s the end game?
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Most probably? This. They know what he’s like.
So now they’ve drawn him out. He’s moving to block it. He’s making a big show of it.
Exactly what she would want.
And if it does get blocked, want to bet it gets out anyhow?
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A New York judge on Thursday rejected on jurisdictional grounds a legal effort by President Donald Trump’s brother to halt the publication next month of a tell-all book by the president’s niece, Mary Trump — but the brother’s lawyer said the case will be refiled in another court.
The ruling in Queens County Surrogate’s Court by Judge Peter Kelly came just two days Trump’s brother, Robert Trump, said in a court filing that Mary Trump would be violating a non-disclosure agreement if the book is published.
The president himself recently said that his niece, who is the daughter of his late older brother Fred Trump Jr., is subject to the nondisclosure agreement, and is “not allowed to write a book.”
The NDA was signed by the clinical psychologist Mary and her brother with the president, Robert and the elder Trumps’ sister, retired federal appeals court judge Maryanne Trump Barry, as part of a settlement of a court battle over the will of the president’s late father, Fred Trump. Sr.
The deer head says it all.
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i think that the book has been kept pretty well hidden from DJT 'n co. It is a month out from it’s due date, so it has been ordered, shipped and printed at this point and getting readied for that due date of July 28th. So this information would be coming out shortly.
From this article, she also changed her contractual name to Mary Compson, and named her official company as Compson Enterprises. The Wapo article describes that at college, Mary wrote and studied William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, which highlights a very dysfunctional family named the Compsons, and the corrupt moral and the emotionally stunted attributes of that family.
Mary went on to get a PHD in clinical psychology and studied personality disorders, such as schizophrenia and helped a colleague write a textbook/manual on how to deal with schizophrenics. So she is a compassionate and empathetic person herself, and considers T’s behavior as being reprehensible.
Who knows if the family suspected her leaking of the tax information to the NYT, but she may have become a ‘persona non grata’ (an unacceptable or unwelcome person) in the family at some point. Looks like they disliked her mother, Linda who her father divorced.
Mary and her brother did sue the estate from more of a share of their grandfather’s inheritance because they found their grandfather had been forced to sign off on a later version of his will while he was incapacitated. She and her brother did get a settlement.
As Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, Mary Trump does not appear to have said anything publicly about him.
But when it became clear that her uncle had won the presidency, she took to Twitter. “Worst night of my life,” she wrote at least 12 times in tweets that have been deleted recently. She wrote that “We should be judged harshly. . . . I grieve for our country.”
She wants him out of office. She wants this to end by “2020” which she also tweeted about. All the negative publicity and dirty laundry that will be spilled has got to create a lot of frightening scenarios for T’ and his family.
She will help destroy his chances for re-election and can verify his narcissism and moral depravity, like no other person from outside the family. What is good for The Donald is not good for the nation.
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Now there is a temporary restraining order on the July 28th release of the Mary Trump’s book. Looks like Mary’s lawyer Boutrous is appealing it and calling it very temporary.
A judge on Tuesday granted Robert Trump a temporary restraining order halting the publication of Mary Trump’s upcoming tell-all, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man .
The injunction marks the first, tentative win for President Donald Trump’s younger brother in his war to stop the publication of his niece’s memoir, which The Daily Beast revealed earlier this month would contain allegations embarrassing to the First Family. The Trump siblings have maintained that the book, to be published by Simon & Schuster, violates the confidentiality clause that Mary Trump signed off on in the settlement of family patriarch Fred Trump Sr.’s estate.
Robert Trump and his celebrity attorney Charles Harder made their first play to block the book in Queens Surrogate Court—but the judge junked the suit almost immediately, telling the elder Trumps to refile in state Supreme Court. They took the advice, and submitted a new request for a temporary restraining order in Robert Trump’s home turf of Dutchess County, in upstate New York.
Their arguments seemed to at least somewhat persuade Judge Hal Greenwald, who ordered Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster to appear before him on July 10—and barred them from disseminating her book.
A person familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast the court had declined Mary’s attorneys’ request for a public hearing.
“Pending the hearing and determination of Petitioner Robert S. Trump’s within motion for a preliminary injunction, Mary L. Trump and Simon & Schuster, Inc., together with their respective members, officers, employees, servants, agents, attorneys, representatives and all other persons acting on behalf of or in concert with either or both of them, are hereby temporarily enjoined and restrained,” the jurist ordered. “From publishing, printing or distributing any book or any portions thereof including but not limited to the book entitled: ‘ Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man ,’ in any medium containing descriptions or accounts of Mary L. Trump’s relationship with Robert S. Trump, Donald Trump, or Maryanne Trump Barry.”
This decision is only preliminary, leaving the book’s ultimate fate up to a later decision on the merits of the lawsuit.
Mary Trump’s attorney, Theadore Boutrous Jr., told The Daily Beast in a statement, “The trial court’s temporary restraining order is only temporary but it still is a prior restraint on core political speech that flatly violates the First Amendment. We will immediately appeal.”
A person familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast the book, to be published by Simon and Schuster, is already on its third print run and the publishing giant are working to get the tome, which is currently Number Four on Amazon’s best-seller list, out to bookstores ahead of its July 28th release.
A spokesman for Simon & Schuster, Adam Rothberg, said they were disappointed in the court’s decision. “We plan to immediately appeal this decision to the Appellate Division, and look forward to prevailing in this case based on well-established precedents regarding prior restraint,” he said.
Harder said in a statement, “Robert Trump is very pleased with the New York Supreme Court’s injunction against Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster. The actions of Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster are truly reprehensible.
“We look forward to vigorously litigating this case, and will seek the maximum remedies available by law for the enormous damages caused by Mary Trump’s breach of contract and Simon & Schuster’s intentional interference with that contract. Short of corrective action to immediately cease their egregious conduct, we will pursue this case to the very end.”
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A little more pressure then…
Mary Trump book: Family tell-all publication date moved up to July 14
@anon95374541 @MissJava. Will u move to reading plz??? Thx!!
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More on her book
Mary Trump’s Book Accuses the President of Embracing ‘Cheating as a Way of Life’
Here are some of the highlights from her manuscript:
Cheating on a College Entrance Test
As a high school student in Queens, Ms. Trump writes, Donald Trump paid someone to take a precollegiate test, the SAT, on his behalf. The high score the proxy earned for him, Ms. Trump adds, helped the young Mr. Trump to later gain admittance as an undergraduate to the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton business school.
Mr. Trump has often boasted about attending Wharton, which he has referred to as “the best school in the world” and “super genius stuff.”
Sending a Brother to the Hospital Alone
It has long been part of the Trump family’s lore that the eldest child of Fred Trump Sr., Fred Trump Jr., who was better known as Freddy, was the black sheep of the dynasty. Freddy Trump was a handsome, garrulous man and a heavy drinker who, after a miserable experience working for his father, left his job in real estate to pursue a passion for flying, becoming a pilot for Trans World Airlines.
Donald Trump has often remarked that his brother’s departure from the family business opened space for him to move into and succeed. “For me, it worked very well,” Mr. Trump told The New York Times during his presidential campaign about serving under his father. “For Fred, it wasn’t something that was going to work.”
Fred Trump Sr. could be brutal to his namesake, shouting at him once as a group of employees looked on, “Donald is worth ten of you,” Ms. Trump writes.
Freddy Trump died in 1981 from an alcohol-induced heart attack when he was 42, and Ms. Trump tells the story in her book about how his family sent him to the hospital alone on the night of his death. No one went with him, Ms. Trump writes.
Donald Trump, she added, went to see a movie.
“No Principles,” a Sister Says
Even at the start of Mr. Trump’s campaign, his sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals court judge, had deep reservations about his fitness for office, Ms. Trump writes.
“He’s a clown — this will never happen,” she quotes her aunt as saying during one of their regular lunches in 2015, just after Mr. Trump announced that he was running for president.
Maryanne Trump was particularly baffled by support for her brother among evangelical Christians, according to the book.
“The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there,” Ms. Trump quotes her aunt as saying. “It’s mind boggling. But that’s all about his base. He has no principles. None!”
Donald Trump, Narcissist
Ms. Trump, a clinical psychologist, asserts that her uncle has all nine clinical criteria for being a narcissist. And yet, she notes, even that label does not capture the full array of the president’s psychological troubles.
“The fact is,” she writes, “Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neurophysical tests that he’ll never sit for.”
At another point she says: “Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life, so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world.”
Like other critics of the president, Ms. Trump takes issue in the book with the notion that Mr. Trump is a strategic thinker who operates according to specific agendas or organizing principles.
“He doesn’t,” she writes. “Donald’s ego has been and is a fragile and inadequate barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father’s money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself.”
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Oh boy, the press is not getting copies of Mary Trump’s book and various reviews are coming out and ALL are very damning. This is going to rattle T a LOT…and KellyAnne is trying to give cover for him…and projecting about her own daughter’s revealing of what is going on in their family.
The Daily Beast links to Wapo and NYT - gives a lot of excerpts.
“If he is afforded a second term, it would be the end of American democracy,” Mary bluntly declares in the book. “Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with complicity, silence, and inaction from his siblings, destroyed my father. I can’t let him destroy my country.”
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“He’s a clown,” Maryanne allegedly confided in her niece. “This will never happen again.
Mary Trump paints a disturbing portrait of her uncle, saying he paid a friend to take his SATs so he could get into college and grew up bending the truth to promote himself. The future president’s father was a “high-functioning sociopath” and his mother “emotionally and physically absent.”
“Honest work was never demanded of him, and no matter how badly he failed, he was rewarded in ways that are almost unfathomable. He continues to be protected from his own disasters in the White House,” writes Mary Trump, the daughter of the president’s eldest brother, Fred.
“But now the stakes are far higher than they’ve ever been before; they are literally life and death. Unlike any previous time in his life, Donald’s failings cannot be hidden or ignored because they threaten us all,” she adds.
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Fred Jr., often called Freddy, had been expected to take over the family real estate business, but he was uninterested and Fred Sr. ended up favoring Donald instead.
“Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence, and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father,” Mary writes. “I can’t let him destroy my country.”
She writes that no family members went with Freddy when he was taken to the hospital at the end of his life. On the night he died, Donald went to the movies, she writes.
Donald is the fourth of five siblings, and their parents were “problematic,” Mary writes.
Their mother, also named Mary, was “emotionally and physically absent,” and Fred was worse, she argues.
“Fred seemed to have no emotional needs at all,” the book says. “In fact, he was a high-functioning sociopath.”
Because of this, “Donald suffered deprivations that would scar him for life,” the book says, and he developed personality traits that included “displays of narcissism, bullying, grandiosity.”
He also became practiced at bending the truth, a precursor to a president who has uttered falsehoods and mistruths thousands of times since taking office.
“For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was,” Mary writes.
Trump got his older sister, Maryanne, to complete his school homework, and he paid a friend to take the standardized College Board admission tests known as SATs for him, according to the book.
“That was much easier to pull off in the days before photo IDs and computerized records,” Mary writes. “Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well.”
When Fred Jr. failed to meet his father’s expectations, Fred Sr. treated him harshly, an experience that Donald internalized.
“He had plenty of time to learn from watching Fred humiliate his older brother and Freddy’s resulting shame,” Mary writes. “The lesson he learned, at its simplest, was that it was wrong to be like Freddy: Fred didn’t respect his oldest son, so neither would Donald. Fred thought Freddy was weak, and therefore so did Donald.”
The book is the first from a member of Trump’s family, but several former senior members of Trump’s inner circle have shared withering criticism of the president as he seeks reelection.
What Mary Trump leaked to the NYT - the family taxes
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Ooo thanks, haven’t read this one yet!
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One more book - this one is from the inaugural party manager - Stephanie Winston Wolkoff where she was paid an astronomical $26 million dollars, or they said she was in an attempt to inventory/account where all the inaugural funds went.
’Melania and Me: My Years as Confidant, Advisor and Friend to the First Lady’ will be released on September 1 and detail ‘chaotic’ White House
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Press Spokesperson MnEnany
“I have yet to see the book, but it is a book of falsehoods”
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Mary Trump’s scathing book claims Trump paid someone to take his SATs
A bizarre White House dinner with Donald Trump and more cringeworthy moments from Mary Trump’s book
Trump’s Brother Makes Last-Ditch Plea to Halt Niece’s Book
Mary Trump’s book: eight of its most shocking claims about the president
- Trump ‘paid someone to take his exams’
- President emotionally ‘scarred’ by abusive father
- Trump shaped by ‘sociopath’ father, niece writes in memoir
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Here comes another book on Sept 29th from lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann in the Mueller investigation which will explain and describe in ‘meticulous’ detail how the investigation went and admissions where it went wrong.
NEW YORK (AP) — A top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller has a book coming out this fall about the two-year investigation into the alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.
Random House announced Monday that Andrew Weissmann’s “Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation” will be published Sept. 29. Weissmann, often the target of criticism from Trump supporters, is calling the book a meticulous account of the Mueller team’s probe and its ongoing battles with the Trump administration.
“I felt it was necessary to record this episode in our history, as seen and experienced by an insider,” he said in a statement. “This is the story of our investigation into how our democracy was attacked by Russia and how those who condoned and ignored that assault undermined our ability to uncover the truth. My obligation as a prosecutor was to follow the facts where they led, using all available tools and undeterred by the onslaught of the president’s unique powers to undermine our work.
“I am deeply proud of the work we did and of the unprecedented number of people we indicted and convicted — and in record speed. But the hard truth is that we made mistakes. We could have done more. ‘Where Law Ends’ documents the choices we made, good and bad, for all to see and judge and learn from.”
Weissmann, who worked as an FBI general counsel under Mueller, gained prominence as a prosecutor investigating organized crime in New York City and for his leadership of a task force looking into the Enron scandal. He has a reputation for being aggressive and experienced, and skilled in developing cooperating witnesses. Under Mueller, Weissmann led the case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in 2018.
The Mueller Report, released in April 2019, found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to tip the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in Trump’s favor. But it also did not reach a conclusion on whether the president had obstructed justice. The investigation did lead to more than 30 indictments, including Manafort, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and longtime Trump friend Roger Stone, whose sentence for seven felony crimes was commuted last week by the president.
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Get ready to see Mary Trump on television. On Monday, a New York court lifted the temporary restraining order on the President’s niece, clearing the way for her to promote her tell-all book in the media. “The court got it right in rejecting the Trump family’s effort to squelch Mary Trump’s core political speech on important issues of public concern,” said Ted Boutrous , the renowned attorney who represented her. Charles Harder , Robert Trump’s attorney, didn’t respond to my request for comment.
So where will Mary Trump’s first interview be? A spokesperson for Mary Trump told me that her first stop will be on “GMA” Wednesday …
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When Mary Trump goes on TV, easy bet that the President will be watching and will probably go ape-shit on Twitter. It’s like his whole MO. It seems like he lives for this media attention, attack and slander. Even his own family.
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Yes…we will need to buckle up. Super erratic behavior ahead.
Humiliation and non-adoration are gonna be a beastly mix for him.
Standing by…for his belly flop into the outer reaches.
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ADDING this video 7.16.20
Full 1 hour video with Mary Trump and George Stephanopoulos (click on ABC look for Mary Trump Exclusive interview)
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Mary’s first cable-news appearance is scheduled for Thursday night, where she will be interviewed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow likely for the program’s full hour.
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In an extended conversation with NPR on Wednesday, Mary Trump said her grandfather and family patriarch Fred Trump rewarded ruthlessness and dismissed any interests outside of the family real estate business, contributing to what she now views as an unfitness on President Trump’s part to hold the office of the White House.
“It’s kind of ironic in the sense that the traits my grandfather came to value in Donald were the traits that were a result of my grandfather’s maltreatment of Donald,” she said. “The bullying, the tendency not to care about other people’s feelings, the willingness to cheat, lie to get what he wanted. And eventually … my grandfather started to see a kindred spirit. Somebody who could advance his agenda.”
Mary Trump, the president’s only niece, describes an abusive and neglectful upbringing suffered by her father and uncles at the hand of Fred Trump, and said she will be supporting her uncle’s rival, Joe Biden, in the 2020 election.
A trained psychologist living in New York, she was promoting her highly anticipated new book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man .
In the book, Mary Trump describes how her grandfather’s relentless business ambition was passed down to Donald Trump.
“Honest work was never demanded of him, and no matter how badly he failed, he was rewarded in ways that are almost unfathomable. He continues to be protected from his own disasters in the White House,” she writes in the tell-all.
“But now the stakes are far higher than they’ve ever been before; they are literally life and death. Unlike any previous time in his life, Donald’s failings cannot be hidden or ignored because they threaten us all.”
The White House has repeatedly dismissed the book as a money grab by the president’s niece.
“The president describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said his father was very good to him,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews said earlier this month.
“He said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child. Also, the absurd SAT allegation is completely false,” Matthews said, referring to a claim in the book that the president cheated on the SAT by paying someone else to take the exam on his behalf.
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The book is selling faster than any of these tell - alls.
Now in its 14th printing…and on it’s way to breaking more records.
It is powerful…and she skewers Donald.
Mary Trump’s book sells 950,000 on first day, sets publisher’s record"
https://twitter.com/i/events/1283807624664952833
Mary Trump’s book sets first-day sales record for publisher - Los Angeles Times
Can we move to books please?? @MissJava @anon95374541
Thx!
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The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil 4.8 out of 5 stars ISBN: 978-1-60358-877-5
Chelsea Green, April 2, 2020 $21.00