A New York arbitrator ruled this week that former President Donald Trump cannot enforce a nondisclosure agreement with ex-White House advisor Omarosa Manigault Newman.
Arbitrator Andrew Brown said Monday the contract was “highly problematic,” further describing it as “vauge, indefinite, and therefore void and unenforceable.” Brown said the N.D.A. too broadly defined what constituted as confidential information, only allowing Trump to decide what could be shared.
The arbitrator said the restriction obligated Omarosa “to never say anything remotely critical of Mr. Trump, his family, or his members’ businesses for the rest of her life.”
“Such a burden is certainly unreasonable,” Brown declared.
Trump targeted Omaraso for violating the nondisclosure agreement after she published her tell-all book Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House in August 2018.
The Trump campaign must now reimburse all of Manigault Newman’s attorney fees.
“It’s pretty remarkable. People generally don’t win when Donald Trump chooses to bring an arbitration action against them,” Manigault Newman told People magazine Wednesday. “He has strategically utilized this forum to kind of bully and harass people and generally it works for him. Unfortunately for him, it didn’t work this time.”
“Finally the bully has met his match!” she concluded her statement.
Former President Trump responded to the loss in a separate statement to the magazine.
“I gave Omarosa three attempts at “The Apprentice,” and she failed. At her desperate request, I gave her an attempt at the White House, and she failed there too,” the impeached president proclaimed. “People truly hated her. At least now I don’t have to let her fail anymore.”
“Nobody in her life has done more for Omarosa than a man named Donald Trump,” he continued. “Unfortunately, like certain others, she forgot all about that.”
This ruling is the second loss for Trump this year in his attempts to enforce nondisclosure agreements.
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