Trump campaign ordered to pay Omarosa Manigault Newman over $1.3m

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Donald Trump’s campaign has been ordered to pay his former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman more than $1.3m in legal fees, closing a case over her alleged violation of a non-disclosure agreement. Omarosa Manigault Newman published a tell-all memoir, Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House. The book contained explosive claims including that the then president was a “racist” who used the N-word repeatedly. Trump sued her for violating a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. He lost the case in September 2021. The New York Times said Phillips provided it a copy of the ruling in which the arbitrator, Brown, wrote 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”. Trump did not immediately comment. Trump faces extensive legal woes elsewhere, including investigations of his business affairs and of his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat by Joe Biden. He has lost other cases over NDAs, including one involving a former campaign worker who said Trump forcibly kissed her. Also on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent in 2016, filed a motion seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit in which Trump accuses her of a racketeering conspiracy in connection with that election. Calling the suit “a fundraising tool, a press release or a list of political grievances”, a lawyer for Clinton, David Kendall, said it should be “dismissed with prejudice”. Trump's legal woes continue.