Nothing to hide? Trump's brother tries again to block niece's tell-all book after failed attempt

Donald Trump’s brother is making a second attempt to block publication of the much-anticipated book by their niece Mary Trump, about “the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office”, shortly after his first lawsuit was dismissed.

Robert Trump’s attempt to stop Mary’s memoir Too Much and Never Enough was dismissed in a Queens county court in New York on 25 June, with surrogate court judge Peter Kelly calling the bid to stop the book “fatally defective”. However, Robert Trump filed another motion in New York State supreme court in Dutchess County on 26 June. As well as seeking to block publication, the lawsuit is looking for potential damages and for a declaration that Mary has breached the confidentiality agreement she signed in 2001, relating to litigation over her grandfather Fred Trump’s will.

Her publisher Simon & Schuster has claimed that Mary is “the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families”.

Robert’s second lawsuit lays out the details of the confidentiality agreement Mary signed in 2001, saying it provided “that the parties who had objected to Fred Trump’s will, including Mary Trump … would not publish any account concerning the litigation or their relationship with each other”.