“Former President Donald J. Trump has lost an effort to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former White House aide and a star on ‘The Apprentice’ who wrote a tell-all book about serving in his administration. The decision in the case, which Trump’s campaign filed in August 2018 with the American Arbitration Association in New York, comes as the former president is enmeshed in a number of investigations and legal cases related to his private company. ‘Donald has used this type of vexatious litigation to intimidate, harass and bully for years,’ Manigault Newman said in a statement. ‘Finally the bully has met his match!’ The decision, dated on Friday and handed down on Monday, calls for her to collect legal fees from the Trump campaign. Trump’s campaign filed the case shortly after Manigault Newman published her book, ‘Unhinged.’ It claimed that she violated a nondisclosure agreement she had signed during the 2016 campaign stipulating that she would not reveal private or confidential info about his family, business or personal life.”

“The book paints a picture of an out-of-control president who is in a state of mental decline and is prone to racist and misogynistic behavior. Manigault Newman’s book also casts the former president’s daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in a negative light. When Trump advisers tried to cast doubt on Manigault Newman’s accounts, she released audio recordings that backed up several of her claiIn a statement on Tuesday morning, Trump said nothing about the arbitration case, and instead attacked Manigault Newman in personal terThe media- and image-obsessed Trump has for years used nondisclosure agreements as a way to prevent staff members from speaking about him publicly, and to deter them from making disparaging comments or writing books like Manigault Newman’s” – New York Times.