Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been ordered to pay nearly $1.3 million in legal fees to former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman by a New York court arbitrator.
The award, handed down on Tuesday, comes after Trump filed a complaint against Manigault Newman over her 2018 book, “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House,” in which she called Trump a racist and suggested that he was in “real and serious” mental decline.
A source with the Trump campaign told ABC News that Trump intends to appeal the ruling.
Trump’s arbitration complaint against Manigault Newman, with the American Arbitration Association in New York City in 2018, alleged that she was in breach of a 2016 confidentiality agreement.
In September, arbitrator T. Andrew Brown ruled that the former president’s nondisclosure agreement with Manigault Newman was “unenforceable.”
Brown said in the ruling that the terms of the nondisclosure agreement were “highly problematic” because it did not adhere to typical legal standards — describing it as “vague, indefinite, and therefore void and unenforceable.”
In Tuesday’s decision, Brown said that Manigault Newman was “defending herself in a claim which was extensively litigated for more than three years, against an opponent who undoubtedly commanded far greater resources than did Respondent.”
Following the order, Manigault Newman’s attorney tweeted, “$1.3 Million Attorney Fee and Cost Order Against the Trump Campaign Issued! (Highest known prevailing party attorney fee assessment against a President or Presidential Campaign).”
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Manigault Newman served as a liaison to the Black community. In her subsequent role as director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison, she was the highest-ranking African American woman in the White House.
She resigned from the position in December 2017 after reports of tension between her and then-Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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Original Article: Trump ordered to pay ex-aide Omarosa Manigault Newman $1.3M in legal fees (msn.com)
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IT really really sounds like she the One that has MENTAL ILLNESS and needs to see the inside s of a MENTAL INSTITUTION. Just because He’s White and his Name is Donald J.Trump and the POTUS every Horse *$s thinks he Owns them something because they R either Black , White , Yellow , Green , Purple , Orange , Red or Blue that they Only Cry and Every Libturd Judge approves It. The Idiot needs to look who”s paying Wages.
You’re absolutely 100% right
Good! Glad to see Trump finally held accountable for something!
B Ullshit Tom …. the sick libs get away with more lies and deceit than any sensible person can believe . They screwed Americans 4years with the Russian lies and bullshit ….. get a brain I m sick of you A holes with your crap….
How can she come back and charge anyone if she resigned and walked off the job. At this point, no one owes her ANYTHING! Case closed. When you quit your job, regardless of what level you’re at, you don’t come back whining and crying the people owe you something. Just keep on walking, have a nice day. That’s how it works in the ‘real world’. No retirement, no medical benefits, nada, zip!
Great good for her
Maybe John Kelly personally owes her for something he may have done “under the table”! Could this possibly be A Me Too law suit? I hope that it was throughly & truly investigated! Is this an open & close case?!
There’s more then what meets the eye in this report! A little more show & tell should be shared! What say you
John Kelly?