2/22/19: President Trump proves once more that he is one of the least-informed human beings ever to take a seat – and that includes visitors – in the Oval Office. Reporters ask him about voter fraud in North Carolina. That is: Republican orchestrated, proven voter fraud. Trump responds by saying he’s opposed to all voter fraud, including made up voter fraud cases.
For example: Texas! (See: 1/31/19.)
It turns out Mark Harris, the Republican candidate in the Ninth Congressional District in North Carolina, was warned by his son (a lawyer) that he was breaking a variety of campaign laws. Dad decided to break them anyway. He rolled up a 905-vote victory margin, out of a total of 275,000 votes cast. Next stop, Washington D.C. where Harris planned to help drain the swamp.
Instead, an elections board voted unanimously to overturn the
results and called for a new election.
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YET ANOTHER former Trump campaign aide is fighting enforcement of a non-disclosure agreement, which all persons working for this president are required to sign, even though courts may decide such NDA’s are illegal in the realm of government. The aide in this case is Jessica Denson, who ran into trouble in the early days of the Trump administration.
Her claim is that her boss, Camilo Sandoval, a former senior staffer at Veterans Affairs, harassed her and then tried to steal and hack her electronic devices. Denson alleges that Sandoval tried to engage others in a plan to snatch her personal laptop, and slandered her reputation.
“I went to the campaign, thinking that they would support and protect me, and instead the chief information officer, Jeff DeWit, and the human resources director, Lucia Castellano, completely retaliated against me,” she alleges, “took away all the work I was doing, banned me from Trump Tower, told people to keep me away from Donald Trump and ultimately prevented me from being able to continue any kind of career or opportunity to serve in the administration.”
“In retrospect,” she tells CNN, “what I feel is that these
NDAs created an environment where people like Camilo Sandoval, who wanted to
commit abuses on other people, felt they could act with impunity and engage
in illegal conduct [emphasis added] and it would never see the light of
day.”
BLOGGER’S NOTE: The Trump campaign eventually sued Denson for $50,000, for violating
her NDA, and won a temporary judgement. During the 2020 campaign, Denson
lambasted the president. She described Trump’s first campaign as “a vile, self-serving branding
exercise for one man and his family.”
On March 31, 2021, a federal court ruled, in a class action lawsuit filed on her behalf, that the NDAs required by the Trump campaign stood in violation of free speech guarantees in the First Amendment.)
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Jessica Denson. |
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