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30 Mar, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Trump's effort to silence a former campaign aide named Jessica Denson & punish after she claimed sex discrimination/harassment by his campaign is effectively voided today as federal court judge rules that non-disclosure agreement Denson signed as campaign aide in 2016 is invalid
I wrote about this case--and others where Trump used his campaign funds to punish former aides that had been critical of him or his campaign--late last year. nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/…
Here is the full story on how Trump drew on campaign funds to pay tens of millions in legal bills. Jessica Denson, his former campaign aide, was one of his many targets. nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/…
Here is the whole opinion (see link, with no bill paid to PACER) issued today by US District Judge Paul G. Gardephe in New York. Thanks @BenWeiserNYT for letting me know about this int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
Statement now just arrived in my in-box from Jessica Denson's legal team, which includes some high-powered lawyers trying to broadly overturn Trump non disclosure agreements. But so far, just Denson's is nullified.

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THREAD: Lets take a closer look at the ways that Elaine Chao & staff violated federal ethics rules while she DOT Secretary--using fed taxpayer resources to benefit her family. DOT staff (OST) here worked on planned trip to China slated to include her dad James Chao, AKA Dr Chao
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Obviously, this was a bet on deregulation in Texas that did not work.
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