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An arbitrator has refuted Donald Trump’s claim that former assistant and The Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault Newman violated a confidentiality agreement after publishing the revealing Unhinged about the former president.
New York arbitrator T. Andrew Brown ruled that the agreement was “vague and unenforceable. “He also wrote in his resolution that Trump’s crusade will have to pay Manigault Newman’s legal fees and fees.
“It’s pretty remarkable,” Manigault Newman, now a freshman of law at the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, told People. “People don’t win when Donald Trump chooses to take legal action against them.
“He has strategically used this forum to intimidate and harass other people and it is a painting for him,” she continues. “Unfortunately for him, this time he didn’t. “
In a statement, he added: “Finally, the tyrant has met his equal!”
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According to John Phillips, Manigault Newman’s lawyer, in a statement: “We won in the forum selected through Donald Trump and the Trump Campaign. “
In an envoy to GENTE, the former president said:
“I gave Omarosa 3 tries on The Apprentice and she failed. A desperate request, I gave her a try at the White House and she failed there too, other people hated her. At least now I don’t have to let it fail. “
“No one in his has done more for Omarosa than a guy named Donald Trump. Unfortunately, like some others, she forgot everything, what I have left!”
Trump has a habit of requiring those who paint for him to point out non-disclosure agreements.
Brown’s September 24 ruling is this year’s resolution in which the NDA agreements have been deemed unenforceable.
In 2004, Manigault Newman became known as the least loved contestant on the first season of The Apprentice, and was fired through Trump. She joined his 2016 presidential crusade and was eventually hired as communications director for the White House Office of Public Liaison before her firing. in 2017.
In 2018, Manigault Newman published an e-book about Trump called Unhinged, in which he made a series of alarming, and disputed, allegations, adding that the president is in “mental decline. “
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Shortly after the book’s publication, Trump filed an arbitration alleging that Manigault Newman had violated a 2016 confidentiality agreement.
However, Brown, the arbitrator, stated that “the settlement imposes well on [Manigault Newman] the legal responsibility to never say anything critical of Mr. Trump, his circle of relatives or his business circle of relatives or circle of family members for the rest. of his life.
“Such a charge is unreasonable,” he wrote.
Manigault Newman says years after the filing of the arbitration: “It’s incredibly stressful, expensive and exhausting.
* WITH REPORT BY VIRGINIA CHAMLEE