Omarosa’s Publisher Responds To Trump Campaign’s Legal Threats: We ‘Will Not be Intimidated’
Omarosa Manigault‘s publisher is not backing down in the face of legal threats from the Donald Trump campaign.
On Tuesday, the Trump campaign said in a statement to CNN that “Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. has filed an arbitration against Omarosa Manigault Newman, with the American Arbitration Association in New York City, for breach of her 2016 confidentiality agreement with the Trump Campaign.”
Charles Harder, the litigator for the Trump campaign also sent a letter to Simon and Schuster, the publisher of the book.
Responding to that letter, the publisher’s outside counsel Elizabeth McNamara replied, according to CNN’s reporting: “While your letter generally claims that excerpts from the book contain ‘disparaging statements,’ it is quite telling that at no point do you claim that any specific statement in the book is false. Your client does not have a viable legal claim merely because unspecified truthful statements in the Book may embarrass the president or his associates. At base, your letter is nothing more than an obvious attempt to silence legitimate criticism of the president.”
The response continued on: “My clients will not be intimidated by hollow legal threats and have proceeded with publication of the Book as schedule. Should you pursue litigation against S&S, we are confident that documents related to the contents of the Book in the possession of President Trump, his family members, his businesses, the Trump Campaign, and his administration will prove particularly relevant to our defense.”
Reporting on Simon and Schuster’s response on Thursday as well as the surrounding controversy over Omarosa’s book, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins was asked by Jim Acosta if Trump had responded to the controversy centered around Omarosa’s comments.
Collin’s replied, “No response from the president today. He was asked several times not just about Omarosa and the claims she makes in her book but also about the White House’s decision to announce yesterday that they are revoking the security clearance of the former CIA director John Brennan and considering revoking the clearances of nine other officials. So far they have nothing else to say about that.”
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