Trump's Brother Asks Queens Judge To Halt Tell-All Book

JAMAICA, QUEENS — President Donald Trump's brother is asking a Queens judge to block the president's niece from publishing a tell-all book, according to papers filed Tuesday in surrogate's court.

Robert Trump's lawyers argue that Mary Trump's upcoming book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man" violates a nondisclosure agreement that was part of a 2001 settlement that they both signed.

The settlement was related to the will of the president's father, New York real estate developer Fred Trump, which was administered in Queens County Surrogate's Court.

It included a provision that bars those who signed from publishing "any account concerning the litigation or their relationship" without the others' consent, the court papers say.

The book, which is due to be published in July, is described on Amazon as a "revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him."

In a statement to the Associated Press, an attorney for Mary Trump characterized the lawsuit as an example of "unlawful prior restraint."

“President Trump and his siblings are seeking to suppress a book that will discuss matters of utmost public importance,” the lawyer, Theodore Boutrous Jr., told the AP. “The courts will not tolerate this brazen and baseless effort to squelch speech in violation of the First Amendment.”