Oh, Mr. Kellyanne!

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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Such a lawsuit could have some serious issues, according to national security attorneys Mark Zaid and Brad Moss.

Zaid noted in a tweet that an NDA that is meant to apply to Sims after Trump’s inauguration would be “legally unenforceable,” except when it comes to classified information.

Moss, who is Zaid’s law partner, explained in an email to Law&Crime that while a campaign NDA could be fine if they were only looking to enforce it regarding Sims’ experiences before becoming a federal employee, they’d have trouble enforcing it when it comes to Sims’ work as a White House staffer.

“If the campaign is trying to impose their NDA upon Sims for disclosures tied to his time in the White House, they’re going to run into the brick wall of established precedent on the subject,” Moss said. “They would in effect be arguing that the court should allow a president’s campaign to censor a former federal employee in a way that the government is barred from doing. Good luck with that argument.”

  Law & Crime

Of course, Trump never cares whether a lawsuit is valid, only if it can hurt someone politically or financially and act as a deterrent to others who might have something negative to say about him. Sims can probably use the extra money he'll be getting for the sales of his book now that Trump has brought more attention to it, or maybe a GoFundMe, to pay any legal costs. Oh...wait...

Zaid and Moss have offered to represent Sims should he face a lawsuit, with Zaid saying they would do it pro bono.

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Well.

Coffee boy

From what I've read, Sims' book is one of the more favorable ones.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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OOOOOOOOOOHH, George!

The tell-alls from the White House just keep on coming

And the more turnover of personnel, the more people will have stories.

The new book, “Team of Vipers,” is written by Cliff Sims, a former aide in the White House communications office who had previously worked on the Trump campaign.

[...]

The common thread for most of the half-dozen books that have been published about the Trump administration has been the affirmation of real-time news accounts of chaos behind the White House gates.

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An author’s note [in Sims' book] describes a venomous den in which people are constantly at each other’s throats. But Mr. Sims’s goal, according to people familiar with the book, was not to damage Mr. Trump. And he is said to have at times painted an unflattering portrait of himself.

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Mr. Sims, whom Mr. Trump often saw as a buddy, was pulled into several meetings that were well beyond the scope of his duties, according to the announcement from the publisher.

He kept hundreds of pages of notes during his time at the White House, the people familiar with the project said. He was among the Trump loyalists who left this year after clashing with the White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly.

The White House declined to comment.

  NYT

They have to wait until someone reads it.

Mr. Sims writes: “I suspect that posterity will look back on this bizarre time in history like we were living on the pages of a Dickens novel.” He added: “Lincoln famously had his Team of Rivals. Trump had his Team of Vipers. We served. We fought. We brought our egos. We brought our personal agendas and vendettas. We were ruthless. And some of us, I assume, were good people.”

Good one.

“I was there. This is what I saw. And, unlike the many leakers in the White House, I have put my name on it,” he writes.

Looking forward to the reviews.

Do you think the eventual Trump Library will include all these books?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.