Omarosa Manigault Newman, the fired White House staffer, may be facing the loss of millions of dollars for violating a nondisclosure agreement she had with Donald Trump. The Trump campaign has filed an arbitration complaint against her for a large sum. Ms. Newman has made a bunch of sensationalist claims about the President in the run-up to the release of her tell-all book. Will she be held accountable? Here is what she has done and what she faces.
As Written and Reported By Paul Bedard for the Washington Examiner:
President Trump’s campaign organization Tuesday has filed for arbitration against friend-turned-enemy Omarosa Manigault Newman, claiming that she broke a 2016 nondisclosure contract by disparaging the president in her new book and revealing private talks from the ultra-secret White House Situation Room.
In New York, Trump campaign lawyers filed for arbitration to force the former star of “The Apprentice” to abide by the agreement they say she signed when joining the 2016 campaign.
According to a sample of the agreement provided to Secrets, she was required to keep proprietary information about the president, his companies or his family confidential and to never “disparage” the Trump family “during the term of your service and at all times thereafter.”
LTo the many dozens of #journalists who called me, questioning @OMAROSA claim in her new book that @POTUS @realDonaldTrump took a note from me, put it in his mouth and ate it…I saw NO such thing and am shocked anyone would take this seriously.
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) August 12, 2018
In a statement, a campaign official said, “Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. has filed an arbitration against Omarosa Manigault-Newman, with the American Arbitration Association in New York City, for breach of her 2016 confidentiality agreement with the Trump…..
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Exclusive: Trump campaign seeks ‘millions’ against Omarosa for violating nondisclosure
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