Trump's case against Omarosa exposes another problem: Unpaid legal bills

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Source: POLITICO



The case is just one of many lingering court battles the campaign has launched but not completed with two weeks left before Election Day.


10/20/2020 04:30 AM EDT

Donald Trump’s campaign wants Omarosa Manigault Newman to pay up for penning an incriminating tell-all book about the president in 2018. But it’s the Trump campaign that hasn’t paid its bills.

The delinquent $52,000 payment — revealed in a previously unreported letter dated Oct. 14 and obtained by POLITICO — is just one example of how the Trump campaign is handling the flurry of legal actions it has taken to both protect the president and attack his enemies in the final weeks of the campaign.

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In the action against Manigault Newman, the campaign may simply let the case dissolve. In 2018, the Trump campaign filed an arbitration case against the former West Wing aide over her book, which rocked the White House with stories of Trump using lewd, sexist and racist language. At one point, Trump’s attorneys suggested Newman pay for a nearly $1 million ad campaign “to counteract the long-term adverse effects” of her remarks.

Yet the campaign has thus far stiffed the arbitrator assigned to mediate the case, according to a letter sent to the parties in the case. If Trump’s attorneys don’t pay the outstanding bill by next week, the case could be tossed out.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/20/trumps-case-omarosa-problem-unpaid-legal-bills-430237

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[AZ8theist]

1. Deadbeat Donnie.

What a shocking revelation!! He didn't pay up???

[llashram]

3. nothing new here

he's always been a deadbeat loser, coward and traitorous bastard. Being POTUS has brought these facts out into the sunlight and it's not pretty.

[Gothmog]

2. The Democratic War room is full of researech on trump being a dead beat

I was part of the Clinton Victory Counsel program where we reviewed 6000+ lawsuits involving trump. The DNC has this research https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/08/inside-democrats-2020-trump-war-room/

“The DNC research team has mined thousands of lawsuits from nearly 50 states as part of a massive new trove on President Trump that will be weaponized through pols and reporters in key battlegrounds,” Axios reports.

“This new plan shows what Democrats think Trump’s biggest vulnerabilities will be. And unlike in 2016, Trump now has a policy record.”

“The research includes roughly 7,000 lawsuits, as well an extensive document detailing every time then-candidate Trump told supporters at his 2016 campaign rallies that Mexico would pay for the wall.”

“A source familiar said this document will likely find its way to local reporters, groups and Democrats in battleground states as Trump diverts funds from the military to pay for his border wall.”

tump is a dead beat

[Nitram]

4. LOL!

[maxsolomon]

5. He uses lawsuits to intimidate. Always has.

He doesn't care if he wins, he only wants to make it so expensive for the defendant that they concede. There were stories about this right and left in 2016.

It's been a successful strategy for him: he's POTUS and has a pile of NDAs 10' tall.

[FakeNoose]

6. Here's further proof that Chump's bogus NDAs are worthless

These people (including Omarosa) never worked for him or for his company. They work for the American people and their salaries are paid for by our taxes.

Chump can't make them sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (legally) because it's not his call. The NDA's are just another attempt at bullying because that's all he is, a mean-spirited bully.

Any federal employee who was made to sign an NDA should just tear it up right now. It's not worth the paper it's printed on.

[EndlessWire]

7. Oh, dear Nancy, I love that! n/t

[EndlessWire]

8. I'm really confused over this

Why does Trump get to START lawsuits over stuff he doesn't like, but gets to say that it's an official act to ANSWER a lawsuit and he isn't responsible??