TRUMP'S NDA - Key Persons
Donald J. Trump for President, Inc's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski reportedly said in August if 2018 that the confidentiality agreements Trump required of workers on his campaign and in the White House "probably aren't enforceable."
He was quoted as saying, "I don't know if they're valid whatsoever." Lewandowski spoke of the NDAs at a breakfast with reporters hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "I don't know how you hold a public employee accountable." And further, "I just don't know if they're valid whatsoever," he said, adding the caveat that he is not an attorney himself. "Other than the disclosure of classified information, which is a crime in and of itself, I don't know how you hold a public employee, a government employee, accountable to a non-disclosure agreement. I don't know how that's enforceable whatsoever." The video to the right has this full discussion.
He and David Bossie co-wrote, "Trump's Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency." As the book is very favorable to Trump, no known action was served against either of them despite the fact "confidential" information would have been prohibited by one or both under the NDA.
Lewandowski also allegedly said his own experience co-writing a book about his time on the campaign trail - an account mostly laudatory of Trump but filled with unflattering details about his temper tantrums and fast food addiction - shows the NDAs are largely an empty threat. "There was no pushback on the book," he said. "I was never contacted by the Trump team or Trump attorneys telling me I couldn't write it. I didn't have to submit my book to them for their review or consideration."
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Michael Cohen, who has hailed Keith Davidson as an ethical and "tireless advocate for his clients," referred Chuck LaBella to Davidson. In an October 2017 e-mail to Arnold's lawyer, Davidson wrote that Arnold had falsely, "implicated Chuck as a witness to sordid events regarding Donald Trump." As a result, Davidson claimed, LaBella was "undergoing severe emotional distress."
Per CNBC, President Donald Trump‘s re-election campaign allegedly paid $93,000 to Harder's law firm to fight against Michael Wolff's book and Bannon's quotes. The article claims Harder received two payments for its efforts on Trump's behalf. One payment of $25,000 was made in January and another for just over $68,000 was made in February, according to the latest Federal Election Commission filings from the Trump campaign. CNBC justifiably drew the conclusion that this, "signals that the Trump campaign is open to spending donors' money to fight what some might see as the president's own personal legal battles."
Sam Nunberg began a relationship with Donald J. Trump on or about June 2011 through a company called Drake Ventures, Inc. Nunberg claims he "ghost wrote" many of Trump's political tweets during the period Trump's followers increased from 500,000+ to over 6,000,000, as well as provided political consulting.
On January 1, 2014, Nunberg claims he was employed as an "independent contractor at will for Trump 2012 PCA without a contract." Mr. Trump planned to run for the U.S. Presidency in 2016.
In 2014, Nunberg claims he was offered the position of Campaign Manager, but declined. On January 1, 2015, Trump requested he sign a Confidentiality Agreement. Thereafter, Trump hired Corey Lewandowski as Campaign Manager, who Nunberg had issues with. Nunberg was ultimately terminated.
Nunberg was again retained pursuant to a "Consulting Agreement," on or about April 15, 2015. Nunberg claims he was terminated again in July of 2015, at the result of Lewandowski influence upon Trump. Trump lawyer, David Cohen, sent Nunberg a letter memorializing the split and issues.
After termination, Nunberg switched his allegiance to Ted Cruz and announced same on March 28, 2016. He made statements against Trump's Campaign generally.
On May 25, 2016, it was reported that Nunberg leaked information about a public fight between two Trump Campaign staffers, including Lewandowski. The Trump Campaign allegedly claimed this was "leaked information" and otherwise violated the NDA. On May 28, 2016, the Trump Campaign served a Statement of Claim, which was followed by an arbitration action seeking $10 million.
The subject NDA clearly was signed by Donald J. Trump, as "President" of Trump 2012 PCA. No such corporation is known to exist. Nunberg filed suit, pointing out this legal fiction, and all claims were "amicably resolved" shortly thereafter.
Sean Spicer served as White House Press Secretary and as White House Communications Director under President Donald Trump in 2017. Prior thereto, Spicer was communications director of the Republican National Committee from 2011 to 2017, and its chief strategist from 2015 to 2017. Subsequently, he was hired to serve as a spokesman and senior adviser for America First Action, a super PAC dedicated to backing candidates who support the Trump Administration.
According to The Guardian‘s description, "Spicer's admiration for Trump shines through all of his reflections on the frustrations of the job. While Spicer in one passage applies the words "erratic" and "mercurial" to the President, the book - which begins with a scene of Trump determinedly refusing Spicer's resignation - is filled with emotionally charged passages starring the President."
Sean Spicer claimed he was not the subject of any compensation to "avoid bad-mouthing President Trump." "I hadn't received a penny from anyone in the Trump apparatus or connected to Trump until June 15 of this year," Spicer told C-SPAN Monday, referring to joining a Trump-aligned super PAC America First Action.
Spicer said he did not have to get approval from the White House for his book, The Briefing, about his time as Trump's spokesman.
Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican Party.
President Trump's attack of Steve Bannon was allegedly followed by a letter in which a Trump attorney accused the President's former campaign chief of violating a nondisclosure agreement by participating in Michael Wolff's book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Wolff claims his book is based on more than 200 interviews with Bannon and other top Trump advisers.
Daniels v. Trump - Harder Affidavit re Sanctions (8/27/18)(CA Fed 6893) - Harder goes through Stormy's history as a porn star, in interviews and Avenatti comments.
Daniels v. Trump - Orders on Attorneys Fees (12/11/18)(CA Fed 6893) - Orders Plaintiff to pay Defendant $293,052.33 in attorneys' fees, costs, and sanctions. Closes Case.
Federal Judge, S. James Otero of United States District Court in California, ordered Stormy Daniels to pay Trump about $293,000 in legal fees and sanctions after her defamation suit against him was dismissed under Texas' anti-SLAPP statute The U.S. District Court Judge James Otero found the tweet, which Daniels based the suit around, was "rhetorical hyperbole" that is protected by the First Amendment.
Mr. Trump's lawyers requested about $389,000 in legal fees, but the judge said the number of billable hours was "excessive" and cut the amount by 25 percent to about $292,000. Writing that Ms. Daniels "is already being deterred from filing meritless defamation claims," Judge Otero ordered her to pay $1,000 in sanctions.
Shortly after, Daniels publicly reprimanded her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, saying he had filed a defamation suit against President Trump against her wishes and sometimes spoke on her behalf without her consent. In a statement provided to The Daily Beast, Daniels alleged that Mr. Avenatti had also repeatedly ignored her requests for accounting information about a legal defense and safety fund that has drawn support from donors and claimed Mr. Avenatti launched another crowdfunding campaign without her knowledge, attributing words to her that she never wrote or said.