Trump campaign ordered to pay ex-staffer more than $300,000 after trying to enforce an 'unconstituti

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Former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign was ordered to pay more than $300,000 in legal fees and expenses to former staffer Alva Johnson, according to an order entered this month in a nonpublic arbitration case.

Johnson, who worked as a staffer in Alabama, will be awarded the fees and expenses after an arbitrator ruled that the campaign tried to enforce a legally unsound nondisclosure agreement (NDA), BuzzFeed News was first to report.

Alva Johnson, who filed a lawsuit against the Trump campaign in 2019, accused the former president of grabbing her and kissing her without her consent during a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida, in 2016.

A federal judge questioned her accusation after a video of the alleged incident appeared to show no inappropriate conduct.

In early September 2019, Johnson decided not to pursue the case, citing ongoing threats to her safety, family reasons, and the difficulty of pursuing justice against a person with "unlimited resources," CNN reported.

Donald J. Trump For President, Inc consequently filed an arbitration complaint on September 23, 2019, saying that Johnson had breached the confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions of an NDA during the legal battle.

The arbitrator, retired federal magistrate Judge Victor E Bianchini, dismissed the arbitration claim in November, calling the provisions of the NDA "vague and unenforceable," The New York Times reported.

Johnson's lawyers subsequently made a motion demanding that Trump's campaign cover her legal fees and other expenses, the newspaper said.

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1. I read one of the TFG NDA's a while back

It was a piece of dreck that was so intentionally vague that it was clearly unenforceable. I am not surprised by these rulings.