A former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign claims she was fired and barred from getting a White House job because she was impregnated by her supervisor, according to a new lawsuit.
Arlene “AJ” Delgado, a conservative pundit who joined the campaign in August 2016, claimed she made more than 100 television appearances to promote then-candidate Trump over the span of three months. She learned she was pregnant in November 2016, the father of her child being then-campaign strategist Jason Miller.
She said discrimination started soon thereafter, according to her suit against the campaign filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday and several top advisers. In the complaint, Delgado alleged that Miller told her she couldn’t be seen “waddling around the White House pregnant.”
“Immediately after Plaintiff Delgado announced her pregnancy, the Campaign and TFA, including Spicer, Bannon and Priebus, Plaintiff’s supervisors, stripped Plaintiff of her job responsibilities and duties throughout for the remainder of her employment from late December of 2016 and through the Inauguration in late January of 2017,” the suit said.
“Plaintiff immediately and inexplicably stopped receiving emails and other communications from the Campaign and TFA, including about projects on which she was currently working,” Delgado’s complaint added. “Plaintiff was excluded from participating in the communications work of the Inauguration or in any capacity, even though she was still formally part of the Communications Transition team.”
Sean Spicer, who later became Trump’s first press secretary, allegedly told Delgado that the White House is “no place for a new mom” in a December 2016 phone call, according to the New York Post.
