Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been ordered to pay more than $300,000 in legal fees and expenses to a former employee who the campaign’s lawyers said had violated the terms of a nondisclosure agreement when she accused Trump of forcibly kissing her in 2016. The award, the culmination of an arbitration claim that was dismissed in November, represents the latest instance of Trump’s failure to use a nondisclosure agreement successfully against an ex-worker. The resolution of the claim, wh
Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally for Republican candidates in Florence, S.C. on March 12, 2022.
The Trump campaign “was invested in silencing other employees that were terminated or had somehow criticized the candidate in other ways,” Bianchini wrote, adding that the campaign’s “demand for arbitration appears to have been principally motivated by upholding its NDA and curtailing any criticism of the candidate.”
Her lawyer, Hassan Zavareei, said Friday that the Trump campaign had tried to use the nondisclosure agreement “as a cudgel to silence what we view as important public speech by one of the few minority campaign workers.” Judge William Jung of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida described the complaint as “political” and told Johnson she could file an amended lawsuit. She ultimately decided not to pursue the case, saying she had been threatened by Trump supporters and believed she would not be successful before Jung, who was nominated to the bench in 2017 by Trump.
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