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The former Trump campaign staffer who claims she was fired and harassed after becoming pregnant said in court papers filed Thursday night that the campaign had agreed to pay her more than $1 million in a settlement — but never coughed up the cash.
AJ Delgado claims in the letter that top campaign officials offered her the $1.2 million after learning in the spring of 2017 that she planned to file a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights over the alleged discrimination.
In her suit filed late last year, Delgado alleged Trump’s campaign directors — Steve Bannon, Reince Preibus and Sean Spicer — discriminated against her after she became pregnant with fellow staffer Jason Miller’s child in 2016.
Spicer, who would eventually be named Trump’s press secretary, allegedly told Delgado during a December 2016 call that the White House is “no place for a new mom.”
When she was stripped of her duties on the campaign and denied a White House job after Trump’s election, Delgado informed her former bosses that she intended to file a complaint with the human rights watchdog.
Before she filed the claim, Delgado and the campaign’s lawyers had a phone call in the spring of 2017 to hash out a settlement agreement, which they agreed would be $1.2 million, according to her letter.
Delgado’s lawyers then sent an email to the campaign lawyers confirming the amount, according to court papers.
“Confirmed as to amount, need to work out payment and other terms and reduce to a formal signed writing,” campaign lawyers wrote back.
“Notably, Counsel for the Defendants did not reserve any right to not be bound by the settlement absent it being reduced to writing,” Delgado’s lawyers wrote in the letter filed Thursday.
Delgado believes the phone call and emails constitute a written and oral agreement to the $1.2 million sum, which the campaign has refused to pay.
She’s now asking for the court to schedule a conference so the parties involved can discuss the payment.
Lawyers for Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond.