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GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump is suing former senior campaign consultant Sam Nunberg – who was fired from the Trump camp last year – accusing the former aide of breaching a confidentiality agreement when he allegedly leaked to the media information about an “apparent affair.”
The Associated Press cited a court filing in which Nunberg accused Trump of attempting to silence him “in a misguided attempt to cover up media coverage of an apparent affair” between two senior campaign staffers.
The two senior campaign staffers appear to have been former campaign manager Corey Lewandoski and spokeswoman Hope Hicks.
In May, Lewandowski and Hicks reportedly had a public screaming match on a Manhattan street.
“Onlookers were stunned to see Hicks, 27, hollering at Lewandowski, 42, in plain view of passersby on 61st Street near Parke Avenue,” the New York Post’s Page Six reported May 19.
One witness told the site: “Hope was screaming at Corey, I am done with you! It was ugly, she was doubled over with her fists clenched. He stood there looking shocked with his hands on his head.”
Other sources claimed it was a campaign-related disagreement.
But the lawsuit – which doesn’t specifically name Lewandowski and Hicks – claims Nunberg went to the Post about an alleged affair.
The only Trump staffers who had a public dispute reported by the Post were Lewandowski and Hicks.
Nunberg, according to the AP, “said Trump filed a $10 million arbitration claim against him and falsely accused him of being a source of a New York Post story from mid-May that recounted a public quarrel between former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks.”
Trump routinely asks campaign staffers to sign legally binding nondisclosure agreements banning them from leaking confidential or disparaging information about Trump, the Trump family or Trump companies, the AP reported.
Nunberg denied being the source of the leak. He accused Trump of trying to “bully” him after Nunberg chose to support Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for president, according to court filings cited by the AP.
“Mr. Trump’s actions in starting a $10 million arbitration, seeking to silence Mr. Nunberg and have the proceedings sealed, are a cautionary tale of what the American people face if Mr. Trump is elected president,” Andrew Miltenberg, Nunberg’s attorney, told the AP.
Miltenberg told the news organization Trump’s attorney sought to seal the documents in a Wednesday hearing.
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