Despite an ongoing legal fight with her family, the president’s niece Mary Trump is not only still planning to release her bombshell tell-all book, but she is also releasing it early. “Due to high demand and extraordinary interest in this book,” publisher Simon & Schuster announced on Monday, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man will be released on July 14, two weeks ahead of its original July 28 publication date.
It’s something of a power move by Trump’s estranged niece, a 55-year-old clinical psychologist and daughter of Trump’s late brother Fred. The book promises to be a “revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him,” according to the publisher, including firsthand tales of “countless holiday meals and interactions” and “everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.” It’s not the first time Mary Trump has blown the whistle on her famous family: She also reportedly claims she supplied tax documents to the New York Times for its Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into Trump’s tax schemes and how he deceived the public about his finances, branding himself a self-made mogul when his father was responsible for amassing the family fortune.
But even as Simon & Schuster orders 75,000 copies, Mary Trump remains locked in a legal battle with her family. At issue: whether the book violates a 20-year-old NDA Mary Trump signed while settling a lawsuit against her uncles, Donald and Robert, and aunt Maryanne Trump Barry about the will of patriarch Fred Trump, Sr. Mary Trump now says the confidentiality agreement was fraudulent because Donald Trump and his siblings lied about the extent of their wealth. “Because the settlement agreement was based on and induced by fraud, it cannot be enforced—and cannot bar publication of Ms. Trump’s book,” an attorney for Mary Trump told the New York Times last week.
Last month, Donald Trump’s brother Robert filed a motion in the family hometown of Queens to halt publication of Too Much and Never Enough; a judge denied the request. But when Robert Trump tried again in Dutchess County, N.Y., a judge temporarily delayed the book’s release. Last Wednesday, a New York appeals court judge reversed the decision, ruling the book could move forward—but the legal battle may be far from over. As the Times notes, the latest ruling still leaves “unaddressed the question of whether Ms. Trump broke her agreement with her family.”
Due to a temporary restraining order that is still in effect, Mary Trump isn’t permitted to speak publicly about her bombshell book or the raging legal battle with her family. But in a statement through her spokesperson on Monday, she said: “The act by a sitting president to muzzle a private citizen is just the latest in a series of disturbing behaviors which have already destabilized a fractured nation in the face of a global pandemic. If Mary cannot comment, one can only help but wonder: What is Donald Trump so afraid of?”