Trump Considers Suing His Niece Over Her Tell-All Book, Saying She Signed an NDA
Source: Daily Beast
This past Sunday, news broke that the presidents niece, Mary Trump, was on track to publish a harrowing and salacious book this summer about her world-famous uncle. By Sunday night, the president had been privately briefed on what he could expect from the upcoming book. By Tuesday, he had begun discussing siccing his lawyers on his niece.
According to two people familiar with the situation, Donald Trump has told people close to him that hes getting his lawyers to look into the Mary Trump matter, to explore what could be done in the way of legal retributionor at least a threatlikely in the form of a cease and desist letter. One of the sources with knowledge of the situation said that in the past couple of days, the president appeared irked by news of her book and at one point mentioned that Mary had signed an NDA years ago.
Mary Trump signed an NDA following a 2001 settlement after litigation disputing Fred Trumps estate, according to people familiar with the matter. That NDA states she is not allowed to publish anything regarding the litigation or her relationship with Donald, Maryanne and Robert.
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Simon and Schuster declined to comment on any potential legal action, and the White House did not provide comment on this story by press time.
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catrose
(5,073 posts)kiri
(796 posts)Imagine: There must be rooms and rooms filled with file cabinets bursting with NDAs.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)Maybe that could be his memorial library!
Folks could come in and read up on what a genuinely filthy bastard he always was, for years after the executions.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)What a freak show of a family. Ewwww.
niyad
(113,573 posts)that disgusting family is??
By the way, what kind of family has to have its members sign nda's?
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)even the reporters at pressers are included! What a fucking moron!
iluvtennis
(19,873 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,191 posts)AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)How does he even know what the NDA says?
GopherGal
(2,009 posts)...until the lawyers realize he won't pay them.
AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)Wonder what the billable rate is for cartoons......
Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)FM123
(10,054 posts)In 20 weeks, your uncle will have lost the election and will have bigger legal issues to worry about than suing his niece for breaking an NDA.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)who know/have known him on a personal and professional level from speaking out, the more I think, Damn! Whatever stuff he's trying so very desperately to keep hidden/quiet must be incredibly horrible.
mtngirl47
(991 posts)jls4561
(1,261 posts)highplainsdem
(49,040 posts)him into the sociopathic malignant narcissist he is.
Chainfire
(17,643 posts)Suing and winning are two different things. I wonder if he he had Uncle Sam sign an NDA?
You really have to be a crooked bastard to force everyone who comes in contact with to sign an NDA. The old boy needs to let a little sunshine into his cave.
onetexan
(13,061 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)NDA's cannot be used illicitly.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,093 posts)GopherGal
(2,009 posts)I imagine her publisher would be getting behind her in the fight. It wouldn't be just Dastardly Donnie picking on his little-known niece, the way he's used to doing things. His attorneys would be going toe-to-toe with the attorneys of a big corporation with skin in the game.
Walleye
(31,056 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,292 posts)That would cure a lot of baggage
onetexan
(13,061 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,292 posts)Tax returns, any candidate for anything gets a good going over by the press, why not NDA's? What are they hiding? It's public life, open book.
I agree with you of course, how feasible, how legal, how would you get them to pass it, but it would yield more information for voters
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)could be revealed.
Nitram
(22,890 posts)he sues his own family in court.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,474 posts)gets hung out anyway.
But, this is about stopping the book until the day after the election.
Nitram
(22,890 posts)The leaks alone will do the deed.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,474 posts)and his case is baseless.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)with the media as he was able to play them to keep his name out there with a ton of free PR.
Scruffy1
(3,257 posts)He's dumb enough to think they are really enforcable. This is especially true if it was coerced.
onetexan
(13,061 posts)tactic, just through general election to ensure the niece's book doesn't hurt his reelection chances. Damn fool faces either get reelected or face being prosecuted. Not hard to see which path he'll choose.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Did Stormy break one? (we now know TOO much about mushrooms... )
NDAs are to hide what you don't want people to know. What exactly is he doing that he doesn't want anyone to know? And why is it that EVERYONE who deals with him has to sign one?
The turd feels that rules don't apply to him, and he is constantly performing criminal acts, therefore he must have the ndas.
You only hide what you don't want seen.
Enquiring Minds DO want to know what he is hiding.
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)I doubt it will stop the book or harm the sales.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)TeamPooka
(24,255 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Surely Jared did. And of course Melania.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Let him sue , then make more money from him when attacks her with threats and false claims. This is just more intimidation and abuse of power because he will conspire with barr to stop her book from getting out. When they both are ousted they'll be crying and whining they are the victims being prosecuted , when they are the criminals . trump and barr testifying under oath will be interesting since both are extreme liars. He will back off doing this when he realizes it will expose him a lot more. Barr will have a lot of explaining to do to .
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)he loses...so go ahead.
...and a thought just occurred to me. I think I read where Mary said she had a basement full of trump family documents....would be ashamed if they suddenly disappeared after leaving the basement door unlocked accidentally....just sayin.