Driving the news: “She’s not allowed to write a book,” Trump told me. “You know, when we settled with her and her brother, who I do have a good relationship with — she’s got a brother, Fred, who I do have a good relationship with, but when we settled, she has a total … signed a nondisclosure.”

Trump said his niece’s nondisclosure agreement with him was a “very powerful one. … It covers everything.”…

“I have a brother, Robert, very good guy, and he’s — he’s very angry about it,” the president said. “But she signed a nondisclosure agreement and she’s obviously not honoring it if she writes a book. It’s too bad.”

“I have a good relationship with [Mary Trump’s] brother. I actually had him — he was in here. He was sitting right in the seat where you are last week, unrelated to that. I didn’t even know — maybe two weeks ago. I didn’t even know about a book coming out until just the other day.”