An employee for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign is suing the organization in federal court to void a confidentiality agreement she signed, arguing it precluded her from discussing discrimination allegations, according to a report.
Jessica Denson, who worked for the Trump campaign as a national phone bank coordinator and with Hispanic outreach, is the third woman to sue in an attempt to nullity a confidentiality agreement involving Trump.
In her lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan last week, Denson is asking a judge to void the nondisclosure agreement she signed with the campaign. She says the pact is overly vague and broad, and argues a discrimination lawsuit she filed against the Trump campaign last year didn’t include any information she was prohibited from speaking about, according to Bloomberg.
Denson filed the discrimination lawsuit against the campaign in state court last year for $25 million. But according to Bloomberg, the Trump campaign wanted to move the lawsuit to arbitration and argued it was a violation of the confidentiality agreement.
In the discrimination lawsuit, she charged that a male superior harassed and discriminated against her after she received a promotion. She also said the former campaign co-worker falsely accused her of leaking Trump’s tax returns and claimed fellow employees cyberbullied her and attempted to steal her personal laptop.
The nondisclosure agreement precludes her from disclosing confidential information about Trump, the Trump Organization, and members of the Trump family, including his children, Bloomberg reported.
In addition to Denson, former adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal have sued to nullify confidentiality agreements involving Trump.
Daniels said she signed a nondisclosure agreement just before the 2016 campaign and received $130,000 to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she had with the president in 2006. Daniels argued the pact should be nullified because Trump never signed it.
McDougal sued the National Enquirer to nullify a 2016 agreement that prevented her from speaking publicly about an extramarital affair she had with Trump from 2006 to 2007.
