Trump Suggests Omarosa Pay $1 Million Ad Spending
Charles Harder, a lawyer for Mr. Trump who has been handling the arbitration case for the campaign, did not respond to an email seeking comment. Mr. Rose also did not respond to an email.
Jenna Ellis, a legal adviser to the Trump campaign, said Mr. Rose’s document did not constitute a demand for a contribution to the Trump campaign. Rather, she said, “the report evidences the extent of damages suffered by the Trump campaign as a direct result of Ms. Manigault Newman’s breach of her unambiguous contractual obligations.”
Yet campaign finance experts said that if Ms. Manigault Newman were to finance an advertising campaign, it would effectively represent a campaign contribution.
Having her pay for an ad campaign “in my opinion would be an illegally large in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign,” said Paul S. Ryan, the vice president for policy and litigation at the good-government group Common Cause.
She also taped Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, offering her a five-figure monthly sinecure from the campaign, which Ms. Manigault Newman said was being done in order to keep her from speaking out.
