Trump campaign ordered to fork over $350,000 for trying to enforce 'unenforceable' NDA
The campaign organization for former President Donald Trump was recently ordered to hand over more than $350,000 in legal fees and expenses after attemping to enforce an "unenforceable" nondisclosure agreement against an ex-staffer, BuzzFeed News reports Friday.
An arbitrator in the nonpublic arbitration case found that though Alva Johnson's — the ex-staffer — attempt to sue Trump failed, his campaign was unable to "invoke a legally unsound nondisclosure agreeement," BuzzFeed News writes. Johnson had alleged the former president once tried to forcibly kiss her, and also made claims of pay discrimination.
The March 10 order requiring the Trump campaign to pay Johnson was made public this week.
The former president has often used arbitration to try and keep unseemly claims out of the limelight, rather than allow an issue to go to court and risk public hearings and documents, BuzzFeed News explains. During his campaign in 2016, many staffers were directed to sign NDAs "that broadly barred them from sharing information about the campaign or saying negative things about Trump, his family, and his businesses."
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