Trump campaign files for arbitration against Omarosa over confidentiality breach

Trump's campaign has filed for arbitration against former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, alleging she violated a non-disclosure agreement by publishing a tell-all book.

A Trump campaign official said in a statement it filed a claim with the American Arbitration Association in New York City against Manigault Newman "for breach of her 2016 confidentiality agreement with the Trump Campaign."

The legal action ramps up the feud between Trump and his former adviser, who has engaged in a days-long media tour to promote her new book "Unhinged," in which she assails the president as a racist and an incompetent leader.

The book draws upon her time on Trumps' 2016 campaign and in the White House.

Manigault Newman has also released secret audio recordings of Trump, White House chief of staff John Kelly and Trump associates Katrina Pierson and Lynne Patton that she says back up explosive claims in her book.

Manigault Newman, who was fired from the White House in 2017, has admitted she signed a confidentiality agreement with Trump's 2016 campaign. She also claims she was offered $15,000 per month and a job with Trump's reelection campaign in exchange for signing a new non-disclosure agreement that guaranteed her silence.

She did not take the offer. Her book is set to be officially released on Tuesday.

Manigault Newman has caused a headache for the White House by making a series of explosive claims about Trump, including that he used the n-word on the set of "The Apprentice," which the president has denied.

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