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Delgado v. Trump, Case 1:19-CV-11764-AT-KHP (Original Post) Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 OP
In one sentence, what is this case about? I can't figure it out LeftInTX Jul 2024 #1
I don't have a clue. I was hoping for enlightenment Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #2
It's about Trump's campaign spokeswoman who got pregnant by another high level campaign person LeftInTX Jul 2024 #3
republicans treating women like crap BoRaGard Jul 2024 #4
Yep. But she wasn't raped by Trump. It was a shitty work environment. She sued the Trump transition, not him LeftInTX Jul 2024 #5
Raped by Jason Miller, not Trump TommyT139 Jul 2024 #12
From 2017: A.J. Delgado Opens Up About Affair with Campaign Co-Worker Jason Miller : It Wasn't 'Vulgar, Scandalous' LeftInTX Jul 2024 #13
This is last November TommyT139 Jul 2024 #14
It's 'Days of Our Lives' meets National Enquirer! Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #6
LOL!!! You summed it up! LeftInTX Jul 2024 #7
Thank you for providing all that background info! Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #8
I remember AJ from CNN..LOL She was super obnoxious. LeftInTX Jul 2024 #10
Found a courtlistener link that seems to have the whole case... Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #9
Thx LeftInTX Jul 2024 #11
Well what do you know. There is a post in LBN today about this. LeftInTX Jul 2024 #15
Thanks! I had missed that. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #16
Quite a coincidence! LeftInTX Jul 2024 #17
Very little gets by BumRushDaShow. I don't know how she keeps up with it all. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #18
The tweet in the op was a bit cryptic...LOL LeftInTX Jul 2024 #19

LeftInTX

(34,317 posts)
1. In one sentence, what is this case about? I can't figure it out
Fri Jul 5, 2024, 02:30 AM
Jul 2024

OK..It's AJ Delgado...who got pregnant by Jason Miller, who treated her like crap. Miller worked for Trump. She was always on TV promoting Trump and she was on the Trump campaign payroll. Then she got pregnant and Jason dumped her. Miller was married and his wife was also pregnant. She was hoping to get a permanent job at the WH, but she wasn't hired.



In December 2019, Delgado filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Trump transition team and specific officials based on allegations of pregnancy and sex discrimination.[19][20] In 2021, Delgado tweeted about the child support litigation and other issues related to their child. Jake Tapper later told Miller on Twitter, in a discussion about the Donald Trump feud with Brad Raffensberger, "and while I have your attention pay your child support", to which Miller tweeted back an accusation that Tapper is a "fake news pussy".[21]

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
2. I don't have a clue. I was hoping for enlightenment
Fri Jul 5, 2024, 04:03 AM
Jul 2024

This part has me wondering what planet I'm on:

The advisor who disclosed this information, given her integrity and honesty, to Plaintiff
was Jenna Ellis, Esq.. Ms. Ellis was not only a senior advisor but a senior legal advisor. She is an
attorney and is credible. She was a highly senior member of the Campaign and precisely in the
position to be privy to this information. It is also highly logical that Mr. Glassner would have
shared this information with Ms. Ellis in particular.
Will the Defendants still continue to claim there exists “no complaints” to provide to
Plaintiff, though they were ordered to provide such? Will their position be that Ms. Ellis fabricated this all in her mind? Will their position be that Mr. Glassner lied to Ms. Ellis (for no
apparent reason), or fabricated this all in his mind? Will their position continue to be that there is
no reason to depose Mr. Glassner?

LeftInTX

(34,317 posts)
3. It's about Trump's campaign spokeswoman who got pregnant by another high level campaign person
Fri Jul 5, 2024, 04:21 AM
Jul 2024

Last edited Fri Jul 5, 2024, 04:58 AM - Edit history (1)

She was dumped by the guy when she was pregnant (He was married). She thought she would get a job in the Trump WH administration, but she didn't. So, she is suing because she was discriminated against because she was pregnant and she was single and pregnant.

AJ Delgado is also an attorney herself. She likely would have been trying to overturn the election herself, if she had been hired by Trump. She likely knew Jenna Ellis and the whole cabal.

I can't open your link. But I found part of the lawsuit and realized it was AJ Delgado. Her and Kayleigh McEnany used to tag team each other on CNN during the 2016 campaign.

Jason Miller was gonna work with Sean Spicer but Miller left the WH to be with his wife and kids after he found out AJ was pregnant. (Miller's wife was also pregnant)

Some of the legal stuff might be when she fired her attorney because she couldn't afford an attorney anymore. She ended up representing herself.



Former Trump campaign staffers Jason Miller and A.J. Delgado reveal love child after campaign affair

Former Trump communications director Jason Miller is the father of former Trump aide A.J. Delgado's child, born in July, it was revealed Wednesday.

Delgado tweeted: "Dear friends: Beyond thrilled to share with you that I'm now the proud mother of a beautiful son (!), William!!! Born 7/10."

Miller, who is married to another woman, confirmed the birth of his and Delgado's child to Page Six on Wednesday.

Miller said in a statement, "My wife and I, along with our two daughters, are excited to welcome William into the world and into our family, and we appreciate the well wishes we've received from so many."

It was reported that Miller and Delgado have not talked since she revealed the news of her pregnancy and are communicating only through lawyers. Delgado later said, in response to Miller's statement, that it is "news to me" that Miller and his wife are excited to welcome her son into their family.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-trump-campaign-staffers-jason-miller-and-a-j-delgado-reveal-love-child-after-campaign-affair

EXCLUSIVE: My Trump campaign lover wanted to abort baby we conceived when his wife was pregnant and said Kellyanne Conway had 'shriveled up fun bags', claims his ex in bitter court case which he calls 'harassment'

Former Trump communications director Jason Miller and ex-campaign adviser A.J. Delgado are embroiled in a custody battle over their eight-month-old son
Delgado accuses him of wanting him to abort their child, which he denies, and says he texted her to say Kellyanne Conway had 'shriveled up fun bags'
He accuses her of harassment and says she is 'trying to drive a wedge between me and our son, break up my family and ruin me professionally'
She claims in court papers that he called Donald Trump 'sleazy Donald' and said the moon landing was faked - which he learned while working for Ted Cruz
CNN contributor Miller, 42, had affair with Delgado, 40, when his wife was pregnant with his second daughter
Delgado, 40, says Miller misled her during their October 2016 relationship by claiming he was getting divorced
After Delgado's pregnancy was revealed in December 2016, the scandal ended Miller's appointment as Trump's White House communications director
In court documents obtained by DailyMailTV, Delgado claims that Miller was 'sexually abusive' and 'physically abusive' toward her on at least one occasion
Both are asking for the court in Florida, where she is bringing up their son, to have the other's mental health assessed
Delgado previously had her own lawyer, but now acts as her own counsel. She said she can no longer afford an attorney because of her legal bills, estimating that she owes around $100,000.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5648681/Trump-officials-ex-wanted-love-child-aborted-said-Kellyanne-Conway-shriveled-fun-bags.html

















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AJ is now anti-Trump because of what happened, but that's not part of the lawsuit. She just wasn't treated well as an single, pregnant woman and was discriminated against. She said Jason asked her to get an abortion. Stuff like that....





LeftInTX

(34,317 posts)
5. Yep. But she wasn't raped by Trump. It was a shitty work environment. She sued the Trump transition, not him
Fri Jul 5, 2024, 05:31 AM
Jul 2024

But yeah, they treated her shitty. However, another ex filed a five-year injunction against AJ because she was him. She also started harassing Jason Miller's wife. Sounds more like redneck circus than anything.

TommyT139

(2,357 posts)
12. Raped by Jason Miller, not Trump
Fri Jul 5, 2024, 10:28 AM
Jul 2024

As of last fall, she is alleging that Jason Miller raped her, having gotten her (and other women on the Trump campaign staff) drunk to the point of blacking out on a trip to Las Vegas.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-staffer-aj-delgado-now-says-her-boss-jason-miller-raped-her

LeftInTX

(34,317 posts)
13. From 2017: A.J. Delgado Opens Up About Affair with Campaign Co-Worker Jason Miller : It Wasn't 'Vulgar, Scandalous'
Fri Jul 5, 2024, 11:47 AM
Jul 2024

A.J. Delgado told The Atlantic that former Trump campaign communications director Jason Miller told her he was separated from his wife when they began their affair

A few weeks after the November election, Delgado learned she was pregnant – news she initially kept to herself. “I finally told him one night when we were in bed and I couldn’t fall asleep,” Delgado says.

Miller’s response to her announcement, according to Delgado, was: “Well this is going to be extra awkward for me to handle because my wife is expecting.”

https://people.com/politics/aj-delgado-jason-miller-affair-son-the-atlantic-interview/

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I haven't followed this enough to hear that she was raped. The AJ Delgado/Jason Miller thing hasn't exactly been on my radar. I remember in 2017, she said they were having an affair and she was dumped. After that I didn't follow the story. She recently changed her story. I'm not gonna go down a rabbit hole following this, cuz I've got a life. I know they went through a bunch of child custody/child support stuff. I was responding to an OP that supposedly against Trump himself, but the lawsuit is against his campaign. She was told that they didn't want a pregnant working at the WH. Trump's team supposedly settled for $1.2 million in 2017, but then didn't pay her. I think Miller is creepy and I personally don't see why anyone would have an affair with him.

TommyT139

(2,357 posts)
14. This is last November
Sat Jul 6, 2024, 12:37 AM
Jul 2024

Here's a DU thread - this phase of the saga is from Nov. 2023.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143161357

It wouldn't be surprising for someone's understanding to develop in cases like this. There are still people who aren't aware that a drunk person cannot give consent. Not sure if that played a part in this very tangled story, though.

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
6. It's 'Days of Our Lives' meets National Enquirer!
Fri Jul 5, 2024, 06:15 AM
Jul 2024

Calling Jenna Ellis honest and with integrity had my head spinning.

LeftInTX

(34,317 posts)
10. I remember AJ from CNN..LOL She was super obnoxious.
Fri Jul 5, 2024, 06:40 AM
Jul 2024

Then I found out she get pregnant by Jason Miller and I was like "eew""...... Then, I found out there was a rift. There were a few articles about it on DU.

LeftInTX

(34,317 posts)
15. Well what do you know. There is a post in LBN today about this.
Sat Jul 6, 2024, 12:43 AM
Jul 2024
Former Trump Staffer Shares Texts Revealing Secret Payoffs

A.J. Delgado, a former staffer on Trump’s 2016 campaign, shared bombshell texts alleging that the campaign “settled multiple” gender discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuits. The texts, reportedly between Delgado and former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, came to light in new filings Delgado made as part of her ongoing discrimination lawsuit.

“Jenna, [between] us, do you know of anyone who complained of gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, or sexual harassment, in the 2020 campaign? Do you know if the 2020 campaign settled any lawsuits regarding such?” texts allegedly from Delgado ask. “Yes. Off record—Boris. The campaign settled multiple suits,” a text reply allegedly from Ellis reads. “Have your investigator subpoena Michael Glassner,” the texts advise, apparently referring to the Trump 2020 campaign strategist.

While the “Boris” named in the text exchange isn’t clear, it could be Boris Epshteyn, strategic adviser for Trump’s 2020 campaign. Forbes’s Zach Everson noted while alerting to the filing that Epshteyn was arrested in 2021 following numerous complaints of groping women at a club.

The text exchange follows earlier sworn declarations by Delgado asserting that Trump’s 2016 campaign repeatedly used middlemen to send hush money with the direct intention of obscuring discrimination settlements from the public and from the Federal Election Commission.





https://newrepublic.com/post/183468/former-trump-staffer-delgado-texts-secret-payoffs-sexual-harassment

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Sure beats having to rummage through old articles and court filings to get a better context!

Ex-Trump Staffer Alleges Campaign Settled Seedy Suits in Bombshell Filing
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143266810

LeftInTX

(34,317 posts)
19. The tweet in the op was a bit cryptic...LOL
Sat Jul 6, 2024, 03:29 AM
Jul 2024

Then I found out it was AJ Delgado, so it gave some sort of direction, but now we know what the tweet is specifically about. AJ was looking to see if there were other recent cases of Trump staffers engaging in sexual harassment.

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