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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Sat Mar 9, 2019, 11:22 AM Mar 2019

Fox news reporter's lawyer wants NDA lifted re Stormy

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Fox news reporter's lawyer wants NDA lifted re Stormy (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2019 OP

More on this story if you missed Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2019 #1

How can an NDA stop someone from reporting the details of a crime? PeeJ52 Mar 2019 #2

You would think. Bet there's an entire floor of Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2019 #3

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

1. More on this story if you missed

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2019, 11:23 AM

Mar 2019

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/non-disclosure-clauses-and-the-reporter-who-first-discovered-the-stormy-daniels-affair

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)

2. How can an NDA stop someone from reporting the details of a crime?

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2019, 11:44 AM

Mar 2019

If covering up the affair of pResident tRump and the resulting payoff is considered an illegal campaign contribution, then being told to withhold evidence of that affair and payoff is a crime. If I am told to withhold evidence of a crime, the person that makes me withhold evidence would be an accessory to the crime. Wouldn't an NDA be invalid in the event of the commission of a crime? I can see it enforceable over an embarrassing act or company secret, but not a crime.

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

3. You would think. Bet there's an entire floor of

Reply to PeeJ52 (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 9, 2019, 01:24 PM

Mar 2019

Trump tower filled with filing cabinets of NDAs. And fox co obviously approves? Geez it's like trump invented the nda

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