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louis-t
(23,273 posts)loser.
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Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)(IMPEACH) as christmas presents for family and friends ! Hell, I may not wait until then and just purchase it and send it now.
Those NDAs trumpie made everyone sign are not legally defensible in a court of law and he knows it. The Presidential Records Act mandates transparency in all things he says and writes, as well as other documents. He did it to frighten people and keep them from revealing to the press what an inept and incompetent moron he is.
sdfernando
(4,927 posts)even Don McGahn told those that asked that they were unenforceable.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)destroys the Marketability of your ex-employees. This will cost Trump nothing,because he never pays settlements.
uberblonde
(1,215 posts)He's gonna hand each and every one of those people discovery? Doubtful.
Gothmog
(144,951 posts)This type of agreement is not enforceable https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/trumps-nondisclosure-agreements-for-federal-employees-are-authoritarian-and-unenforceable.html
The far stronger likelihood is that consideration isnt present here, rendering these alleged agreements little more than a bullying, speech-chilling, calculated bluff. Marcus cites a draft agreement that makes penalties payable to the federal government (as opposed to Trump personally), but its difficult to imagine how that bit of drafting slipperiness would matter, except to attempt to obfuscate that Trump is the real party to the agreement and federal employees are obligees. According to Marcus, some who were reluctant to sign ultimately did so because they figured they were unenforceable anyway. Barring some dark authoritarian turn in our other branches of government, these employees were absolutely correct about this last part.
These alleged nondisclosure agreements represent an attempt to purchase the free speech rights of federal employees for the sake of Trumps personal protection, paid with only an empty, but perhaps effective, threat. To say such a threat cheapens the presidency grossly understates the constitutional repugnancy of these agreements. This effort reveals the presidents view of himself as an autocratic leader and of his place within the American system as being above it. It further demonstrates his blithering ignorance and disdain for even the simplest and purest of American concepts like free speech and public service.
Gothmog
(144,951 posts)It would be fun watching trump attempt to enforce one of these NDAs https://www.reuters.com/article/us-otc-nda/trump-ndas-cant-silence-ex-white-house-officials-legal-experts-idUSKBN1GV2UT
The U.S., and not President Trump, would also be responsible for enforcing the agreements, said law professors Heidi Kitrosser of the University of Minnesota and Mark Fenster of the University of Florida. But the First Amendment protects people against government restrictions on free speech. These NDAs strike me as clearly unconstitutional under the First Amendment, said Kitrosser.
A public employee, added Fenster, cant be forced to sign away the right to speak.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,730 posts)As with the President, all White House Staff serve the people of the United States. The White House is not like some PRIVATE Corporation where NDAs are the norm. The President answers to us.
Cartaphelius
(868 posts)Counting for all soon to be attorney's I wonder if there enough attorneys
in N. America to represent ALL the NDA's every required by Trump?
turbinetree
(24,685 posts)and no one knew about it until the spies published the picture...................talk about non-disclosure agreement bullshit...............
Lock his ass up or impeach the asshole............................and then lock him up.....................and his entire cabal..................