Remnants of Trump campaign will no longer try to enforce NDAs

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“In another resounding victory for my team, the Trump campaign is waiving the white flag in my yearslong battle for truth and accountability,” Denson said. “But we will not allow the Trump campaign to circumvent the legal steps necessary to ensure that these NDAs are wholly unenforceable by both the campaign itself and the multitude of third parties it purports to empower, including the former president himself.”

Protect Democracy alongside Bowles & Johnson and Ballard Spahr had battled the remnants of the Trump campaign to release Denson and others from nondisclosure agreements. Between 400 and 500 former campaign workers are estimated to have been subject to the nondisclosure agreements, David Bowles, a lawyer for Denson, told the Washington Examiner, while noting an official count is not available.

“The Campaign hereby vows that it shall not ever enforce or attempt to enforce any confidentiality or non-disparagement provisions contained in any written agreements signed by any employees, independent contractors, or volunteers who worked for the Campaign on the 2016 Presidential Election,” PAC Treasurer Bradley Crate wrote in a court declaration Tuesday.

Crate said he made the declaration on behalf of the PAC, which was formerly registered with the Federal Election Commission as the Donald J. Trump for President campaign. He made the filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Bowles surmised that the PAC, which previously served as a nexus of the Trump campaign, took voluntary action to release staffers to avoid a court order mandate to release its staffers. Denson’s legal team has vowed to keep fighting for a legally binding court order to make it illegal for the campaign remnants to enforce the nondisclosure agreements.

Precedents established in Denson’s legal battle with the Trump campaign helped others win release from nondisclosure agreements, according to Bowles. Last year, the PAC was also dealt a massive defeat in its attempt to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman and was subsequently ordered to cough up $1.3 million in legal fees for Manigault Newman.

John Phillips, a lawyer for Newman who previously won the nondisclosure agreement case against the campaign, hailed the move as a massive defeat for the Trump campaign. He also tweeted a photo of a letter that released a person with a blanked-out name from a nondisclosure agreement.

“After @OMAROSA publicly defeated the Trump Campaign and substantial attorneys fees were awarded and the Campaign’s NDA was held unenforceable, the Campaign has officially given up and is releasing everyone from the NDA. Kudos to AJ, Jessica and all who [fought] these NDAs,” he said.

Last September, a court arbiter overseeing the Manigault Newman case concluded the terms of the nondisclosure agreement were too vague and essentially meaningless. The Trump campaign remnants had sought to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against her for the book Unhinged detailing her experiences with the campaign and working with Trump.

The decision followed a string of other similar cases in which courts determined the nondisclosure agreement was overly vague. In March, Trump’s campaign was forced to pay $300,000 in legal fees to a former campaign aide who alleged Trump attempted to kiss her, the New York Times reported.

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This article was updated with additional context about the role of Denson’s legal efforts in ushering in the release of former Trump campaign staffers from their nondisclosure agreements.