Trump Cant Legally Make New Staff Sign NDAsYet

[applegrove]

by Patricia Murphy at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/16/trump-can-t-legally-make-new-staff-sign-ndas-yet.html

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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.

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[Ms. Toad]

1. Ya know - as big a stink as he made about Clinton's email server,

you'd think he'd know that what you do as a public employee is . . . ummm . . . public.

[smirkymonkey]

2. He'll find a way to make them sign.

"He has the power to do it,” she said. “I don’t think it’s a matter of someone signing a contract with Trump. Rather, he’ll use his executive powers to make it law that you have sign this to work for him.” Friedman said a court would have to agree that the new restrictions serve the public interest, which would be a very high bar. But it’s not impossible.

“It is unheard of and it’s never happened,” she said. “But I think we all have learned in the last year that just because it’s unheard of, that doesn’t mean Trump’s not going to make it happen.”

[uponit7771]

3. Same thing with tagging Muslims and deporting Hispanics... DPutin could care less