Trump campaign loses legal dispute, ordered to pay ex-staffer $350,000

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Former President Donald Trump's campaign organization lost a legal dispute and has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to a former staffer and her attorneys due to an "unenforceable" nondisclosure agreement (NDA) that it attempted to enforce.

Alva Johnson, the former staffer, worked on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and has alleged that he grabbed her hand and leaned in to kiss her on the lips on August 24, 2016, in Tampa, Florida, The Washington Post reported in February 2019. The former Trump campaign staffer has said that she turned her head and that the then–GOP presidential candidate's attempted kiss landed on the side of her mouth.

On Friday, BuzzFeed News first reported that the Trump campaign organization was ordered to pay Johnson and her lawyers a sum of just over $350,000 after it attempted to enforce an NDA when she took legal action. The arbitrator, retired federal magistrate judge Victor Bianchini, in the case determined that the NDA was not legally sound.