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Trump Can’t Legally Make New Staff Sign NDAs—Yet
The president-elect would love to bar his White House team from sharing insider details or disparaging him, but he can’t do so legally—at least for now.
Patricia Murphy
11.16.16 1:00 AM ET
As a businessman and presidential candidate, Donald Trump not only valued discretion in his employees, he legally guaranteed it by requiring them to sign lengthy nondisclosure agreements.
One Trump NDA obtained by the Associated Press gagged Trump associates throughout their employment and “at all times thereafter.” It barred them from sharing any insider details in the future and made it clear that they could be sued for disparaging any member of the Trump family, including Barron and Melania Trump or any of Trump’s 10 grandchildren. The NDA applied to everyone from Trump’s top employees in the Trump Organization to campaign volunteers and even the guy who made the famous “Make America Great Again” hats.
But as Trump begins to assemble his new team at the White House and in the Executive Branch, federal employment-law experts say there’s no way for Trump to put a similar gag order in place as president. Yet. And it’s not because he doesn’t want to.
In an interview with The Washington Post in March, Trump told reporter Robert Costa that if he won the White House, he would want to require his new team, who would all be federal employees, to also sign NDAs.
“I don’t know, there could be some kind of a law that you can’t do this,” he said (fact check: true). “But when people are chosen by a man to go into government at high levels and then they leave government and they write a book about a man and say a lot of things that were really guarded and personal, I don’t like that.”
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/16/trump-can-t-legally-make-new-staff-sign-ndas-yet.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
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