- President Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, is preparing to publish a book about her family and her "dangerous" uncle.
- Her book is scheduled to publish July 28. Publisher Simon & Schuster says it will be a "revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him."
- The president commented on reports of the book in an interview with Axios, published Sunday, saying Mary is "not allowed to write a book" because she had signed a nondisclosure agreement with the family.
- He also said some members of his family were blindsided by the book, and forcefully denied some of the claims published inside.
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President Donald Trump addressed his niece's upcoming tell-all for the first time in an interview with Axios.
The president told the outlet, in an interview published Sunday, that his niece, Mary Trump, is "not allowed" to publish a book because she had signed a nondisclosure agreement.
He also said that the book had taken members of their family by surprise, and contested one of the book's claims.
"She's not allowed to write a book," Trump told Axios' Jonathan Swan, adding that she "signed a nondisclosure" when he settled a lawsuit brought on by her and her brother, Fred Trump III.
The settlement Trump was referring to was an issue over his father's estate.
When Fred Trump Sr. died in 1999, Mary Trump and Fred III contested the will, saying they should have received what would have been their father's share of the will had he outlived his father.
Mary's father, Fred Trump Jr., died at the age of 42 in 1981 due to alcoholism. The case was settled privately.
Donald Trump said the nondisclosure agreement was a "very powerful one" and "it covers everything."
The Daily Beast reported last week that Trump had told his inner circle that he's having his lawyers look into what they can do to legally threaten Mary over the book.
The president said he's not the only member of his family shocked to learn his niece was planning a tell-all about him. He said his younger brother Robert is "very angry about it" as well.
Trump also claimed to have a "good relationship" with Mary's brother, saying he had him to the White House just last week, for an unrelated reason.
According to a description of the book released by publisher Simon & Schuster, "Too Much and Never Enough" is a "revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him."
As a clinical psychologist, "Mary L. Trump has the education, insight and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick," Simon & Schuster said.
Among the claims to be detailed further in the book is how the president "dismissed and derided" his own father when the elder Trump started succumbing to Alzheimer's in the 1990s, according to Simon & Schuster.
The president contradicted this claim in his interview with Axios, saying "it's totally false" and was "actually the opposite."
"I didn't know that she said that. That's a disgraceful thing to say," Trump said.
Simon & Schuster and the White House did not immediately respond to Business Insider's requests for comment.
The book is currently due to publish on July 28, and is currently number four on the Amazon best seller list for books.
Earlier this month the Trump administration also sued former National Security Advisor John Bolton over his upcoming book, alleging that the book contains information not vetted for release.
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