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NDA Nondisclosure agreements signed by White House Staff in the Trump admin
[url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-nondisclosure-agreements-came-with-him-to-the-white-house/2018/03/18/226f4522-29ee-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.51717c266bd0]Wapo reported[/url] months ago that the Trump administration forced White House staff to sign NDAs.
“[i]In the early months of the administration, at the behest of now-President Trump, who was furious over leaks from within the White House, senior White House staff members were asked to, and did, sign nondisclosure agreements vowing not to reveal confidential information and exposing them to damages for any violation. “[/i]
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He was also known to take the same approach to staff during the campaign.
ACLU responded at that time:
[link=http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/379124-aclu-alleged-trump-nondisclosure-agreements-are]ACLU: Trump nondisclosure agreements for White House staffers are ‘unconstitutional’ | TheHill[/link]The American Civil Liberties Union slammed [link=http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump]President Trump[/link] on Monday, following reports that he made White House staffers sign nondisclosure agreements forbidding them from discussing their time in the administration.
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Public employees cant be gagged by private agreements. These so-called NDAs are unconstitutional and unenforceable.
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Well… now it looks like the WaPo reporting was correct. Omarosa has an NDA
And, though I don’t find much of value in her spat with Trump or her book or her tyapes or the N-word, I do find it fascinating that Omarosa v. Trump might test the legality of the nondisclosure agreements.
[url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/14/donald-trump-latest-news-tweets-omarosa-john-kelly-firing]Trump sues Omarosa for viloation of NDA[/url]
Donald Trump has escalated a bitter row with his former aide [link=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/omarosa-manigault-newman]Omarosa Manigault Newman[/link], praising his chief of staff, John Kelly, for quickly firing that dog. Hours later, the Trump campaign reportedly filed for arbitration, accusing Manigault Newman of breaching a 2016 non-disclosure agreement.
Manigault Newman, a former adviser to the US president and contestant on the reality TV show The Apprentice, has released [link=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/13/trump-omarosa-manigault-newman-releases-secret-recording-president]two secret recordings[/link]related to her firing and another one related to the claims that Trump used the N-word as she promotes [link=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/12/unhinged-omarosa-manigault-newman-book-trump]her [/link][link=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/12/unhinged-omarosa-manigault-newman-book-trump]memoir, Unhinged[/link].
In a [link=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/omarosa-trump-campaign/index.html?utm_content=2018-08-14T15%3A42%3A58&utm_medium=social&utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNNp]statement[/link] to CNN on Tuesday, Trumps campaign said that it had 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 Campaign. It is the first legal action the campaign has launched since Manigault Newman revealed details in her tell-all book about her time as a Trump campaign adviser and senior White House aide.
Here’s another fresh legal opinion today:
[url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/08/14/the-constitution-wont-let-trump-silence-white-house-aides/?utm_term=.ac5ab103a15b][b][size=”0″]The Constitution wont let Trump silence White House aides[/size][/b]
No matter how much the president loves them, the government can only enforce nondisclosure agreements for classified information.[/url][/h2]such NDAs for government workers, when they go beyond prohibiting the disclosure of classified information, are unconstitutional on their face. I know, because I have litigated more pre-publication-review classification challenges against the government during the past 25 years than any other attorney[i]. [/i]For decades, courts have made it clear that the government may not censor unclassified material, contractually or otherwise. Legal challenges during the 1970s and 1980s against the CIA settled the question that the government has no legitimate interest under the First Amendment in censoring unclassified information.
I have reviewed one document that is purportedly a version of the White House NDA. It appeared to be nothing more than a Trump Organization document that was modified to apply to White House staff in fact, it still had a provision that in any litigated dispute, the parties agreed that New York state law would apply, language that no standard federal document would ever have used. It was also [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-nondisclosure-agreements-came-with-him-to-the-white-house/2018/03/18/226f4522-29ee-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.ab68de8e5664]publicly reported[/link] that one early draft of a White House NDA contained a provision that imposed a $10 million fine to be paid to the federal government if the signatory shared confidential information. While the term confidential in D.C. parlance is part of the national security classification framework, in these NDAs, it referred to potentially derogatory and unclassified information pertaining to the president.
In customary aggressive Trump fashion, his campaign entity, Donald J. Trump for President Inc., rather than the U.S. government, has [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-files-arbitration-action-against-omarosa-manigault-newman/2018/08/14/0ea8bd24-9fd8-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html]reportedly filed for arbitration[/link] against Manigault Newman seeking millions for a violation of a 2016 NDA. The NDA allegedly required her 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. This clause is in direct conflict with the legal precedents governing federal employees, but how an arbitration body will interpret constitutional questions is anyones guess.
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what’s classified I guess? She seemed to state that one recording was from inside the situation room which is supposed to be off limits, however, isn’t as secure as The Masters with cell phones. Check your phone at the door.
More over I think Omorosa is just more evidence Trump is a swamp creature. She had no business there drawing a tax payer funded salary.-
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what’s classified I guess? She seemed to state that one recording was from inside the situation room which is supposed to be off limits, however, isn’t as secure as The Masters with cell phones. Check your phone at the door.
More over I think Omorosa is just more evidence Trump is a swamp creature[b][i]. She had no business there drawing a tax payer funded salary. [/i][/b]
I can’t think of anybody associated with the White House that is actually qualified to be there., the president included. Maybe John Kelly, though he has sold his soul, imho.
The President of the United States calling a former senior advisor “a dog” on the world’s largest social media network. This is the strangest timeline.-
Funny how things are running parallel. At the Manafort trial, Manafort’s defense is don’t believe Gates because he is a lying thief and in the White House we have don’t believe Omarosa because she is a lying manipulator out for herself.
And this is what those America people voted for and still support. This is the best that F@gan and MSK wanted.
Funny if it wasn’t so sad.-
No matter what, Omarosa has always been a person who projects conflict and discourse not matter what team she plays on. Even from the 1st show apprentice show, she quickly judged other players as racist by any slight comment to color. Why Trump put such a vial explosive person on his team, makes no sense at all and was actually a stupid move. She brought noting but drama which seems to be her schtick in life. I’d hate to be her husband, he must be a emasculated and a patsy. She’ll make a ton of money with the book and then be invited on the View (again) and Joy Baher and Whoppi will like her and not question the shift.
Hmmmm, a loud strong aggressive minority woman who got strong armed by a Wealthy Man. What happened? I know… she didn’t get her way and tell all books makes Millions. I guess you can’t always ride on the coat tails of others.-
She’s Trump’s protegé in all ways, using what she learned from Trump against him. Exactly the meaning of my post above, pot calling the kettle black, this Administration is full of soot.
Hoist from their own petards and covered with gunpowder soot.-
Omarosa offered a bribe of $15,000/month to keep her mouth shut after she was fired. Told the pay would come from donors contributing to Trump’s reelection fund.
Now we know it’s seen as a slush fund by the Trumps. Nothing new there, other people’s money has always been their way.In the book, she claimed that the Trump 2020 campaign, which is partly overseen by Lara Trump, who is married to Mr. Trumps son Eric, offered her a salary equal to what she had earned before being fired from the White House in December.
Ms. Trump noted on the tape, which Ms. Manigault Newman said was recorded days after she was fired, that the money would come from campaign donors.
All the money that we raise and that pays salaries is directly from donors, small-dollar donors for the most part, Ms. Trump said.Believe me, Ms. Manigault Newman said on MSNBC, invoking one of Mr. Trumps favorite phrases to convey his sincerity, my tapes are much better than theirs.
Ms. Manigault Newman is not the only person who has caused Mr. Trump harm with his own tactics.
Some major donors to Mr. Trump were bothered by the revelations that the campaign may have been used as a slush fund to pay fired or troublesome employees, said Dan K. Eberhart, an Arizona donor and energy executive who serves as an adviser to the America First Policies group created to support Mr. Trumps agenda.
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[link=https://politicalwire.com/2018/08/17/judge-says-trump-campaign-screwed-up-wording-of-ndas/]Judge Says Trump Campaign Screwed Up Wording of NDAs[/link][/h2]
A New York judge ruled that errors in the wording of a nondisclosure agreement between President Trumps campaign and a former staffer make it much smaller in scope, [link=https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-says-trump-campaign-screwed-wording-confidentiality-agreements-025613573.html]Yahoo News[/link] reports.
The decision has potential implications for the looming battle over fired Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newmans slow-motion revelations of her experiences in the Trump campaign and White House.-
She’s saying that she might have 200 tapes. I don’t know if I should find it hard to believe she taped over 200 conversations including in the Whitehouse. I wonder if she’s in peril of any consent laws. 1 party vs 2 party.
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Well, let’s hear the tapes and find out, I say!
Anyone fighting on the grounds of not consenting to be taped making stupid, illegal or unethical statements is likely to lose regardless. See Sasha Baron Cohen’s record of losing suits to people taped being stupid.-
I’d like to listen to those tapes, right after I read those 30k Hilary emails on her server.
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Let’s see the Farakahn ( I mean Ellison) tape while we’re at it.
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I read that he hates Jews. Wasserman! Bayer! Where are you in the Dog fight! Come one! Defend your culture not your ratings!
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of course he did …
[b]Trump Had Doctors Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements[/b][/h1]
President Trump required personnel at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to sign non-disclosure agreements last year before they could be involved with treating him, [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-asked-walter-reed-doctors-sign-non-disclosure-agreements-2019-n1242293]NBC News[/link] reports.
During a surprise trip to Walter Reed on Nov. 16, 2019, Trump mandated signed NDAs from both physicians and nonmedical staff, most of whom are active-duty military service members, these people said. At least two doctors at Walter Reed who refused to sign NDAs were subsequently not permitted to have any involvement in the presidents care.
The reason for his trip last year remains shrouded in mystery.-
Man tries to keep his medical information private. What an outrage !
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I sort of don’t understand why you need an NDA. Aren’t the doctors and really anyone at the hospital required to not say anything.
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HIPAA has expired? You can freely talk about patients conditions in public now by name to anyone who listens? Thats why everyone needs an NDA for their providers now?
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[h1]Trump Loses His Lawsuit Against Omarosa[/h1] [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/us/politics/trump-omarosa-nda-suit.html]New York Times[/link] –
Former President Donald Trump has lost an effort to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former White House aide and a star on [i]The Apprentice[/i] who [link=https://amzn.to/3EVR2fU]wrote a tell-all book[/link] about serving in his administration.
Said Manigault Newman: Donald has used this type of vexatious litigation to intimidate, harass and bully for years. Finally the bully has met his match![/QUOTE]
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[h1][b]Trump Campaign Owes $300,000 After Failed NDA Case[/b][/h1]
Donald Trumps presidential campaign has been ordered to pay more than $300,000 in legal fees and expenses to a former employee who the campaigns lawyers said had violated the terms of a nondisclosure agreement when she accused Mr. Trump of forcibly kissing her in 2016, the [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/us/politics/alva-johnson-donald-trump-arbitrator-ruling.html]New York Times[/link] reports.
The award, the culmination of an arbitration claim that was dismissed in November, represents the latest instance of Mr. Trumps failure to use a nondisclosure agreement successfully against an ex-worker.
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[h1][b]Trump Ordered to Pay Omarosa $1.3 Million[/b][/h1]
A court arbitrator has ordered former President Donald Trumps presidential campaign to pay nearly $1.3 million in legal fees to Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former [i]Apprentice[/i] star, White House aide and author of the first tell-all book about the Trump White House, the [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/politics/trump-omarosa-manigault-newman-nda-award.html]New York Times[/link] reports.
The award, handed down on Tuesday, concludes a protracted legal fight after Mr. Trump unsuccessfully sued Ms. Manigault Newman over her book, [link=https://amzn.to/3Mj0DAd][i]Unhinged[/i][/link], arguing that she had violated a nondisclosure agreement she had signed while working for his campaign in 2016.
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Trump’s 2016 campaign notified a judge this week that it had released former staffers from confidentiality and non-disparagement sections of an NDA they signed, in an effort to get a potential class action tossed out as moot
[link=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-10/trump-campaign-freed-2016-staff-from-confidentiality-agreement?srnd=premium#xj4y7vzkg]https://www.bloomberg.com…srnd=premium#xj4y7vzkg[/link]
[h1]Trump 2016 Staff Can Now Talk About What They Saw on Campaign[/h1] [ul][*]Campaign wants to end a potential class action over NDAs[*]A federal judge previously sided with ex-staffer who sued [/ul]
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[b]Settlement Invalidates 2016 Trump Campaign NDAs[/b][/h1]
Former President Donald Trumps 2016 campaign will pay $450,000 as part of a settlement of a long court fight over its use of nondisclosure agreements, the [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/us/politics/trump-campaign-nda-settlement.html]New York Times[/link] reports.
The proposed settlement with Jessica Denson, a former campaign aide whom the campaign tried to silence as she claimed she was the target of abusive treatment and sexual discrimination by another campaign member, effectively invalidates the nondisclosure agreements that hundreds of officials from Mr. Trumps first presidential run signed.
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