An arbitrator this week ordered former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign to pay Omarosa Manigault Newman $1.3 million in legal fees over the Trump campaign's unsuccessful lawsuit against her after she wrote a book about her time as a White House adviser.
An arbitrator on Tuesday ordered former President Donald Trump's campaign to pay $1.3 million in legal fees to Omarosa Manigault Newman in the campaign's failed bid to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against the former White House staffer.
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 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 mental decline. Trump's arbitration complaint against Manigault Newman 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 the decision on Tu
(NEW YORK) 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