Trump Campaign Must Pay $1.3M in Legal Fees to 'Apprentice' Star Omarosa Manigault Newman

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Arbitration awards are not appealable This will be fun to watch

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An arbitrator ordered Donald Trump's presidential campaign to pay $1.3 million in legal fees to Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former "Apprentice" star whom the campaign unsuccessfully sued over a book about her tenure as a White House advisor, her lawyer said Wednesday.

The award comes nearly seven months after the arbitrator ruled in Manigault Newman's favor that a confidentiality agreement she signed while working on Trump's 2016 campaign was invalid under New York law.

The campaign in 2018 had filed a complaint with the American Arbitration Association in New York against her claiming that she violated that non-disclosure agreement with a scathing tell-all book titled "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House."

Manigault Newman's lawyer John Phillips, in a statement, said the decision was the "largest known attorney fee award against a Political Campaign or President we can find and hopefully will send a message that weaponized litigation will not be tolerated and empower other lawyers to stand up and fight for the whistleblower and vocal critic against the oppressive machine."

[BigmanPigman]

1. Let's see if this has a positive effect on similar lawsuits.

"hopefully will send a message that weaponized litigation will not be tolerated and empower other lawyers to stand up and fight for the whistleblower and vocal critic against the oppressive machine."

[LakeArenal]

2. Like hell he will.

Good luck collecting that!!!

[TomSlick]

3. It shouldn't be that hard.

Last edited Wed Apr 20, 2022, 08:16 PM - Edit history (1)

She reduces the arbitration award to a judgment and starts executing on Trump's assets - including his stock in various Trump businesses.

Added on edit: The judgment would be against the Trump Campaign and could only be collected from Campaign assets. I am unclear whether the 2020 Trump Campaign is the same organization as the current Trump Campaign or what assets either have.

[LakeArenal]

6. Has he ever paid any judgements.

[TomSlick]

9. Yeah, I'm backing up a bit - maybe a lot.

See my edit above.

[malaise]

7. Ha

The truth

[LakeArenal]

8. Of all the money trump should pay, Omarosa would be at the end of the line.

[rpannier]

10. The Retrumplican Party will pay the money

Because they don't want him angry at them

[MissMillie]

4. TFG will love this

"Manigault Newman's lawyer John Phillips, in a statement, said the decision was the "largest known attorney fee award against a Political Campaign or President we can find..."



To paraphrase #45: "This is the biggest ever. The best ever. Never has there been anything like it." For once he'll be right.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. This is the only way to fight them.

They are circumventing or abusing the law, and Civil lawsuits are the only way to stop this.