The $10 million breach of confidentiality lawsuit against former Donald Trump aide Sam Nunberg just keeps getting juicier – and looking like more of a potential crap chute for the candidate.
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Trump accused Nunberg of violating a nondisclosure agreement by leaking confidential information to reporters.
For his part, Nunberg denied disparaging Trump and said the arbitration initiated by Trump was an attempt to “bully” him after Nunberg publicly supported Texas Senator Ted Cruz in his White House bid.
The agreement also says that if Trump chooses, he can sue Nunberg in NY court or decide to take the case to binding arbitration, and Nunberg cannot contest Trump’s decision. Nunberg claims Trump is trying to silence him “in a misguided attempt to cover up media coverage of an apparent affair between two campaign staffers”.
Nunberg says in court papers that Trump improperly used the entity, “Trump 2012 PCA”, while the billionaire “toyed” with a presidential run in 2012.
A former political advisor to Donald Trump, Samuel Nunberg, has asked a judge in NY to block the presumptive Republican presidential candidate from moving forward with an arbitration case against him.
But in his 9-page lawsuit, Nunberg calls that a pretext to chill his “constitutionally protected rights of free speech and association while also interfering with his political consulting business activities”. Lewandowski and Hicks apparently were arguing about the announcement that Manafort would be taking a larger role in Donald Trump’s campaign.
Nunberg also claims he’s being sued for endorsing Sen.
Nunberg was sacked last summer when his long history of incendiary Facebook posts came to light.
Trump and Nunberg have engaged in a number of testy back-and-forths in the press since parting ways in 2015.
Hicks and Lewandowski have reportedly denied the allegations that they had an affair.
“Nunberg referred further questions to his attorney”.
Trump requires almost everyone in his employ to sign extensive nondisclosure agreements.
Judge Eileen Bransten ruled that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee or his attorneys must show cause in New York Supreme Court on August 10 as to why the suit against former adviser Sam Nunberg must be kept in arbitration and out of a courtroom.
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Instead, Nunberg says the contract that should apply is the consulting agreement he signed with the Trump exploratory committee.
