MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Omarosa Manigault Newman’s publisher has responded to President Donald Trump’s campaign’s ‘legal threats’ over her tell-all book, saying Trump is fully able to use his ‘bully pulpit’ to refute anything they take issue with — but that the book will be published. The Trump campaign also filed an arbitration action Tuesday against Manigault Newman, alleging she breached a 2016 confidentiality agreement she signed. Responding to a letter from Charles Harder, who is litigation counsel for the Trump campaign, book publisher Simon and Schuster’s outside counsel Elizabeth McNamara wrote: ‘While your letter generally claims that excerpts from the book contain ‘disparaging statements,’ it is quite telling that at no point do you claim that any specific statement in the book is false. Your client does not have a viable legal claim merely because unspecified truthful statements in the Book may embarrass the president or his associates. At base, your letter is nothing more than an obvious attempt to silence legitimate criticism of the president.'”
–Kaitlan Collins, “Exclusive: Omarosa’s publisher tells Trump campaign: We ‘will not be intimidated’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 16, 2018 5:32 pm