Author: Kevin Breuninger; Dan Mangan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former President Donald Trump\u00a0soundly lost a battle to enforce a nondisclosure agreement with former \u201cApprentice\u201d contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman over a scathing tell-all book she wrote about her stint as a White House advisor, according to an arbitrator\u2019s decision released by her lawyer Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The arbitrator, T. Andrew Brown, agreed with Manigault Newman\u2019s argument that the confidentiality agreement she signed while working for Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign is \u201cinvalid under New York contract law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brown wrote that the terms of the NDA \u201cpertaining to confidential information and non-disparagement are vague and unenforceable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ruling granting Manigault Newman\u2019s summary judgment request came more than three years after Trump\u2019s 2020 reelection campaign filed a complaint with the American Arbitration Association in New York city claiming she breached the NDA with the contents of her book \u201cUnhinged: An Insider\u2019s Account of the Trump White House.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Manigault Newman previously gained widespread notoriety for her role as a villain-esque contestant on the first season of Trump\u2019s former reality television show \u201cThe Apprentice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ruling, dated Friday, was first reported by The New York Times\u00a0Arbitration decisions are private and as a rule can only be disclosed by participants in a dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo finally someone has beat him at his own game and in his own forum,\u201d John Phillips, Manigault Newman\u2019s attorney, said of Trump in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attorney said he believes the ruling in this case sets the stage for more people to challenge similar \u201clegally unenforceable\u201d agreements they signed while working for Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think that does it for all of them,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cI hope people who have these NDAs \u2026 read these opinions and realize they shouldn\u2019t be so worried.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump is well-known for his extensive use of NDAs, the enforcement of which can be litigated outside courtrooms, where hearings and legal filings are routinely made public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other former Trump staffers have filed legal challenges to confidentiality agreements they signed. Brown\u2019s ruling pointed to former Trump campaign aide Jessica Denson, who in 2018 sued in federal court to void her own NDA. In March, the judge in that case ruled that the confidentiality and no disparagement provisions in that agreement were unenforceable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phillips in a subsequent email said, \u201cAs a lawyer, this was an unimaginable case \u2014 a United States President abusing the Constitution and Bill of Rights with outrageously unenforceable non-disclosure agreements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSince Omarosa came forward, and was sued, we\u2019ve said this agreement was illegal and offensive. It took too long to finally get past the frivolous defenses, experts and lawyers like Charles Harder billing the Campaign millions of dollars while free speech was stigmatized,\u201d Phillips said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump lashed out at Manigault Newman in a statement after the ruling was made public. \u201cI gave Omarosa three attempts at The Apprentice and she failed,\u201d he said. He also said her time at the White House was a failure. \u201cAt least now I don\u2019t have to let her fail anymore,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNobody in her life has done more for Omarosa than a man named Donald Trump. Unfortunately, like certain others, she forgot all about that which is fine with me!\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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