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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sam-nunberg-donald-trump-lawsuit_us_5786a9d1e4b08608d332d58d

Ex-Staffer Alleges Trump Misused Funds, Set Up Fake Company

“This is happening on the worst possible day for him,” said a Trump adviser.

 07/13/2016 07:12 pm 19:12:35

Christina Wilkie 


A former Donald Trump campaign staffer says in response to a Trump lawsuit against him that the campaign may have broken laws against mingling corporate and campaign funds.

Sam Nunberg, in a legal answer to a $10 million lawsuit claiming Nunberg violated a confidentiality agreement, said Trump may have illegally funneled corporate money into the campaign, and created a fictitious company that was listed as a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

Nunberg was fired from Trump’s presidential campaign last summer, after it was revealed that he had posted racist messages on Facebook. Trump’s lawsuit against him, made public on Wednesday, claims Nunberg in May told the New York Post about a public screaming match between two top Trump staffers: campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks, and Trump’s then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. Nunberg vehemently denies leaking the story.

At the time of the argument between Hicks and Lewandowski, Nunberg hadn’t been involved with Trump’s campaign for more than 10 months.

Nunberg says in his answer to the lawsuit that the Trump campaign illegally created a fictitious company, called Trump 2012 PCA. The company is listed as a plaintiff in the suit against Nunberg, along with Trump’s formal campaign.


Nunberg also claims the campaign “may very well” have violated campaign finance laws by using Trump company resources for Trump’s political campaign.


News of the lawsuit and response upstaged Trump’s search for a running mate, according to a source close to the campaign, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“This is happening on the worst possible day for him,” said the adviser, who added that Trump disregarded advice not to file the lawsuit in the first place.

At the time the lawsuit was filed in May, Trump was relying on Corey Lewandowski, his campaign manager who was subsequently fired. Lewandowski advocated the suit as a way to make sure his relationship with Hicks ― which Nunberg’s filing calls a “sordid and apparently illicit affair” ― didn’t become public, the adviser said.

“Corey egged him on this suit,” the adviser said, adding that once it was filed, Trump was not interested in dropping it. “Trump never backs down.”

“Nunberg will go for Trump’s throat. This is going to be all-out war,” the adviser predicted. “This is going to be ugly.”

Indeed, there were already signs on Wednesday that Nunberg plans to make the legal battle about Trump’s presidential campaign. Nunberg contends his endorsement of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), Trump’s former rival for the Republican nomination, sparked the lawsuit.

A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment from The Huffington Post.
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Re: Ex-Staffer Alleges Trump Misused Funds, Set Up Fake Company
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2016, 01:26:24 am »
You beat me by 10 seconds. :)

It looks like Nunberg won't settle after all. Considering he is making possible criminal accusations, he now may be able to get whistleblower protections over the NDA lawsuit.

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« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2016, 01:30:08 am »
You beat me by 10 seconds. :)

It looks like Nunberg won't settle after all. Considering he is making possible criminal accusations, he now may be able to get whistleblower protections over the NDA lawsuit.
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« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2016, 01:58:32 am »
Disgruntled employee is going down hard.

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« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2016, 02:06:35 am »
I have to wonder why Trump chose to press the NDA issue.  None of this would have come out if he hadn't done that.  He just can't seem to help himself, even when the results could end up hurting him.

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« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2016, 02:16:17 am »
OK, supposedly a Trump advisor is saying all this???
Yeah right! It all happened in May!

I read it and laughed!  Especially when I saw HUFFPO?????? **nononono* **nononono*


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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2016, 03:02:00 am »
OK, supposedly a Trump advisor is saying all this???
Yeah right! It all happened in May!

I read it and laughed!  Especially when I saw HUFFPO?????? **nononono* **nononono*

Even me, a Trump skeptic, saw Huffpo and thought, not so fast...
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« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2016, 03:33:36 am »
Trump might have sunk his own campaign by suing this guy

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« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2016, 03:35:37 am »
Even me, a Trump skeptic, saw Huffpo and thought, not so fast...

It doesn't matter when it happened

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« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2016, 03:52:04 am »
It doesn't matter when it happened

Like Joe Friday said, "Just the facts, ma'am".
We know Huffpo is not a fan.
If it has legs, It will come out with credible sources.


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« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2016, 12:02:16 pm »
Even me, a Trump skeptic, saw Huffpo and thought, not so fast...

Easy enough to check.  Court filings are in the public domain.
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« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2016, 12:05:54 pm »
Remember, its the seriousness  of the charge that matters, not its validity.
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« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2016, 12:44:17 pm »
Disgruntled employee is going down hard.

Maybe.  But not quietly.  Not easily.  And not soon.  This will be causing headlines throughout the campaign.

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« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2016, 12:54:12 pm »
Maybe.  But not quietly.  Not easily.  And not soon.  This will be causing headlines throughout the campaign.
Just like all the others that you thought would harm Trump....  :silly:

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« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2016, 01:07:59 pm »
OK, supposedly a Trump advisor is saying all this???
Yeah right! It all happened in May!

I read it and laughed!  Especially when I saw HUFFPO?????? **nononono* **nononono*

And yet you take s gospel two stories about Cruz that were planted in the National Enquirer?

Pathetic.
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« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2016, 01:08:12 pm »
Trump might have sunk his own campaign by suing this guy

That scow is already taking on water but it won't matter to the cult of stupidity that supports him.

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« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2016, 04:05:05 pm »
And yet you take s gospel two stories about Cruz that were planted in the National Enquirer?

Pathetic.
National Enquirer, anything from Red State, Washington Post, NYT, Huffington, etc, no difference between them.
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« Reply #19 on: July 14, 2016, 05:35:38 pm »
FWIW, the Daily Beast is reporting this now, also.
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« Reply #20 on: July 14, 2016, 05:40:58 pm »
The usual anti-Trumps will run with it hoping this time they can help the Establishment. But as always it falls flat because other then anti-Trumps who are looking for anything to damage Trump, nobody gives a dam about this kind of stuff.
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« Reply #21 on: July 14, 2016, 05:52:53 pm »
..add The Guardian to the list of those reporting it now.
That's 3 that I am aware of.
Looks like it is getting those legs I was referring to.
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« Reply #22 on: July 14, 2016, 06:01:41 pm »
I have to wonder why Trump chose to press the NDA issue.  None of this would have come out if he hadn't done that.  He just can't seem to help himself, even when the results could end up hurting him.

And how does that personality trait bode for the USA, should he miraculously (it would take a miracle at this point) become CIC?  My guess?  Not well.
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« Reply #23 on: July 14, 2016, 06:04:48 pm »
Remember, its the seriousness  of the charge that matters, not its validity.
Yup, we all learned that from Trumps attacks on Cruz, didn't we?