Former President Donald Trump may have more than one reason to refer to autumn 2021 as his “fall.”
Last week, a New York arbitrator dealt Trump a massive blow when he ruled that former Apprentice contestant and White House advisor Omarosa Manigault Newman’s non-disclosure agreement was too vague to enforce. Trump had sued Manigault Newman after she penned a tell-all book about her time in the White House.
The Daily Beast reports that Trump will have to reimburse all of Manigault Newman’s legal fees for the three-year fight over the lawsuit. The site also reports that the implications of the ruling in Omarosa’s case could have far-reaching implications, as it will enable other former Trump associates to speak out without fear of legal reprisal under NDA rules.
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“This is going to have a massive impact, and it’s because of the way Trump treats people when he’s done with them,” Manigault Newman told the website. “I really do feel that folks who have been mistreated or embarrassed, who certainly have information to share will go, ‘Hmm—well they haven’t heard this story.’ There were so many people in the room when he was doing things that were so clearly unlawful, unethical, unhinged—whatever ‘un-’ you want to use—especially people in the White House. It’s not because they’re unloyal or don’t care about the office or the country; it’s because of how he treated people.”
A judge had reached a similar conclusion regarding the Trump NDAs earlier this year in the case of former staffer Jessica Denson, who has accused Trump of gender discrimination. The one-two punch of both cases could signal a coming flood of grievances from former Trump associates no longer bound by the rules of an NDA.
The news comes amid a wave of devastating articles about Donald Trump’s malfeasance and incompetence–and even physical health after his bout of coronavirus that almost killed him last year.
Following her win in arbitration, Omarosa Manigault Newman raised questions about Trump’s health–something that Trump himself seems concerned over. In a RealClearPolitics interview, Trump dialed back his 2024 Presidential ambitions, saying his health may prevent him from running.
The news also comes as Trump faces renewed criticism over his continued, false claims that the 2020 Presidential election was “stolen,” and as a probe of misconduct by Trump and his lap dog Lindsay Graham over election tampering in Georgia is poised to release its findings.
Trump has also faced personal financial woes, with his hotels facing a massive downturn in business following his encouragement of the January 6 Capitol Insurrection.
Cato
Even better is this story from TFG’s estranged niece, Mary Trump, who recorded an interview with Dean Obeidallah just moments after being served with legal papers:
MARY TRUMP: Yes, Donald is suing me, The New York Times and the three Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters who wrote that extraordinary piece of journalism in 2018, for $100 million for reasons which don’t necessarily stand up to scrutiny, but obviously we’ll have to let the courts decide. But in an unusual move, a process server came to my home to serve me with papers–which typically doesn’t happen if you’re represented by counsel. It’s usually sent to the attorney’s office, so I’m guessing it was some kind of power play. But to lighten the mood, I guess, the process server also asked me to sign a copy of my first book which he had brought with him.
OBEIDALLAH: He had your first book with him?!
TRUMP: He had it with him and I asked him what his name was, and I signed the book for him.
OBEIDALLAH: So the guy is serving you papers to sue you from your uncle, but you’re like “sure?”
TRUMP: It’s a little weird – you’re serving me with a lawsuit and asking me to sign a book for you, but okay…
Kangol2
That is a great story. BTW, Dr. Mary Trump has had Don the Con’s number since Day 1. She laid out how mentally unstable and dangerous he was from a clinical psychological standpoint, and we all ignore her, and other psychologists like Dr. Bandy X. Lee, who also assessed that Don the Con was a very ill man, at our peril.
Mack
I really don’t care. Hopefully something will happen, jail, incapacitated, dead, whatever, so he can’t run again.
Mr. Stadnick
Enjoy the international schadenfreude.
JFK
Trump is getting what he deserves. You get what you sow. He’s rude and dangerous for the United States. He organized the whole insurrection with his Twitter account. His inaction resulted in a pandemic which we are still fighting. He failed America and tried to overturn our democracy.
Jacity
That is the exact truth as observed from another country, I have no allegiance or agenda, I’m not Republican or Democrat. Why doesn’t your whole country understand what he did? It’s truly baffling to see how many still voted for him.
plazaro1
Trump Crime Family For Prison #ArrestTrumpsTaliban
Gadfeal
My main concern is to make him irrelevant to the political process. As for “getting what he deserves”, he has avoided consequences of his behavior ever since he was a toddler, silver spoon fed by his nanny.
Until he cannot ever run for public office again, there will always be some PAC funded by the cult followers that pay to keep his house of legal cards going.
What of the effort to “censure” him in Congress?
Prax07
The only Trump news that I care to read is that he’s died. Until then I just don’t care.
MynameisSid
I wake up and check my phone for that headline every damn day.
JRinDallas
That would be great, but I would still prefer him to spend the rest of his miserable life in prison, getting frequently sodomized by inmates of color, racist that he is. The image of him being led off to prison in handcuffs and leg irons, deranged and weeping like the coward that he is, would be a high point of my life.
Cam
I love that he has to pay for her legal fees.
RyanMBecker
You are correct but the article is wrong. It actually incorrectly states that, “Trump will NOT have to reimburse all of Manigault Newman’s legal fees.” I assume that the author actually meant to type, “NOW” instead of “NOT.”
Regardless, while I’m no fan of Omarosa, I’m glad Trump is being punished.
UncleFloppy
Also today (10/4) Trump learned that the defamation lawsuit filed in 2016 by Summer Zervos (a 2006 contestant on “The Apprentice”) must go forward now that he is no longer President.
Zervos is suing Trump over his denial that he sexually assaulted her in 2007.
The judge in the case has ruled that Trump can no longer postpone the case because he is now a private citizen and that he must complete his deposition by December 23 so that the case can proceed.
cassiew
Almost didn’t read this article because I’m so TIRED of Queerty’s dumb, vague, click-baity headlines.
“Donald Trump’s very, very bad autumn just got much worse” – why not just tell us what TF the article is about??!
I swear you have a variation on this headline at least once a week. “So-and-so’s week is really bad!” This formula is boring.
Heywood Jablowme
Apparently the Queerty writers were very, very impressed with the children’s book “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” which seems to be their intellectual reference point for practically everything. But for me it works since I’m usually curious enough to see what happened on Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day! I haven’t seen this Omarosa story anywhere else yet.
BLAKENOW
and yet you still waste time to comment…go figure
Vince
Must be tough having to read things that are so below your intellectual greatness. Eye roll.
That or you can always apply to Queerty to write for them instead of just bitching about it.
Abraxas020
Hear Hear ! I agree.
Like, so totally lame
Fahd
With all the money he spends on lawyers – it’s no doubt Bill Cosby level — how stupid is Trump to hire a lawyer who drafts an NDA that even pathetic Omerosa can get around. Sad!
RyanMBecker
From the article: “The Daily Beast reports that Trump will NOT have to reimburse all of Manigault Newman’s legal fees for the three-year fight over the lawsuit.”
According to the Daily Beast article, the opposite is true. Trump will have to reimburse Omarosa’s legal fees. So either the author misread the article or made a gross typo which states the opposite of the truth. If the latter, I think the correct wording is, “…Trump will NOW have to reimburse all of Manigault Newman’s legal fees…”
RyanMBecker
“In a RealClearPolitics interview, Trump dialed back his 2024 Presidential ambitions, saying his health may prevent him from running.”
Yeah, MENTAL health concerns should’ve disqualified him from running, even in 2016. As far as I know, he is the first world leader in history whose behavior invoked medical experts to publicly state that he’s not fit to lead while he was still in power. The result was a NY Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. The book contains essays by 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health experts, stating why he was a danger to the nation. Sadly, they were later proven right, as evidenced by the January 6th Insurrection. Of note, many of the contributors risked their careers for speaking out because the Goldwater Rule prevents “diagnosing” a patient that they themselves did not examine (even though TV experts, especially forensic psychologists, do so all the time).
Trump even provoked Terrence Tao, arguably the greatest living mathematician, to write a blog — with mathematical precision — on why it’s “self-evident” that Trump was unfit for president. It was posted early in his presidency, way before the Trumpian horrors to follow. For those unfamiliar with Tao, go to his Wikipedia entry. He scored 760 on the SAT math section at age 8, and started taking university classes in math at age 9. He was also the youngest participant in the Math Olympiads at age 10, winning Gold at 13. He finished his Bachelor and Masters degrees by 16. He then attended Princeton on a Fulbright Scholarship at 17, finishing his PhD by 21. Tao had published 300 papers to date, and is arguably the most sought-after mathematician by colleagues. And he’s kinda cute, if you like the mild-manner nerdy types.
You know something’s wrong with you if an apolitical mild-manner mathematician was alarmed enough to denounce you in a formal post. Along those lines, the much-respected New England Journal of Medicine and Scientific American both made history with their first presidential endorsements ever — and it was against Trump. Of course, it made no difference to Trump’s undereducated supporters since most prefer QAnon over academia.
Cam
Notice how the very second polls showed DeSantis polling even with Trump, suddenly he ight not run. LOL
OhPlease
NOPE, not by a long shot. George W. Bush, Ronald “Dementia King” Reagan, Richard “Nearly Drank Myself to Death Every Night in Office” Nixon, Adoph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, et al, all come to mind as people whose mental state and physical ailments led to public statements about their fitness. Bush Jr.’s alcoholism and religiosity in particular were examined. There were plenty of questions about Bill Clinton’s mental state as well when he was caught committing perjury and especially in light of the credible rape allegations AND disclosures that he was a victim of domestic abuse by Hillary while in office.
The allegations that he has congenital neurosyphilis should have been addressed long before he was allowed to file papers to run (this should be mandatory for ALL politicians going forward!), but most of his schtick is a very carefully groomed act just like Biden’s alleged senility is being used as a tool to avoid prosecution and also to lay the groundwork for his removal which was supposed to take place in November. What no one anticipated was the unilateral lack of support for Kamala Harris who quickly turned into dead weight for her lack of ability to deal with foreign heads of state.
The one that cracks me up is Rudy Guiliani laying the groundwork for his own diminished capacity plea. He was never known as a drinker or for having mental “issues” before Trump’s term, but there were rumors 20 years ago about some kind of blackmail material on him that was allegedly in Hillary’s possession.
Tombear
You do realize when Trump dies there will be gay parties and picnics everywhere!
Max
“…non-disclosure agreement was too vague to enforce…”
Trump’s best was in action LOL