- Senior White House staffers were pressured to sign nondisclosure agreements, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
- One draft NDA viewed by The Post said violators could face $ 10 million penalties.
- The NDAs also applied to “all times” after President Donald Trump’s term in office.
President Donald Trump required senior White House staff members to sign nondisclosure agreements that not only threatened stiff financial penalties for violations, but extended far beyond Trump’s time in office, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus reported on Sunday.
According to a draft agreement Marcus said she viewed, violators could face $ 10 million penalties for each unauthorized release of “confidential information,” though it’s possible the final NDAs reduced the penalty amount. The agreement applied not only to staffers’ White House tenures but “all times thereafter.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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