Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Wednesday that confidentiality agreements required of employees in the White House and on the campaign probably aren’t enforceable.
“I don’t know if they’re valid whatsoever,” Mr. Lewandowski said of the nondisclosure agreements at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “I don’t know how you hold a public employee accountable.”
The Trump campaign filed an arbitration claim Tuesday against former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, arguing that she broke her nondisclosure agreement by publishing a critical tell-all book about the president. She signed the agreement with the campaign in 2016.
Mr. Lewandowksi, who remains close to the president, said he signed a nondisclosure agreement when he started with the campaign. Mr. Trump’s lawyers didn’t object to a book he wrote last year, he said.
But he said of such agreements, “I don’t know if they’re enforceable,” because they may violate the First Amendment.
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