The publisher of a book on President Donald Trump and his family announced Monday they are moving up the publication date to July 14 due to “high demand and extraordinary interest” in the tell-all tome by Mary Trump.
The president’s niece, embroiled in a legal battle over the book with her uncles, including the president’s brother Robert Trump, issued an email statement to USA TODAY through her spokesman, Chris Bastardi.
“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,” the statement said. “If Mary cannot comment, one can only help but wonder: what is Donald Trump so afraid of?”
The book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” originally was scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster on July 28.
A New York appellate court last week ruled the publication could go ahead over the Trump brothers’ attempts to block it.
But a temporary restraining order remains on Mary herself. A lower court judge in New York is due to consider whether to continue or drop that order later this week.
