Donald Trump seeking damages from former campaign consultant amid leak claims

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seeking 10 million US dollars in damages from a former senior campaign consultant&comma; claiming he leaked confidential information to reporters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a court filing Sam Nunberg accused Mr Trump of trying to silence him &&num;8220&semi;in a misguided attempt to cover up media coverage of an apparent affair&&num;8221&semi; between two senior campaign staff members&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The highly unusual legal dispute reflects Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s efforts to aggressively protect the secrecy of his campaign&&num;8217&semi;s inner workings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was reported last month that Mr Trump requires nearly everyone in his campaign and businesses to sign legally binding non-disclosure agreements prohibiting them from releasing any confidential or disparaging information about the billionaire businessman&comma; his family or his companies&period; Mr Trump has also said he would consider requiring such agreements in the White House&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the court filings&comma; Mr Nunberg denied disparaging Mr Trump and accused the presumptive Republican nominee of attempting to &&num;8220&semi;bully&&num;8221&semi; him into silence after he decided to publicly support Texas senator Ted Cruz&&num;8217&semi;s presidential bid&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s actions in starting a 10 million dollar arbitration&comma; seeking to silence Mr Nunberg and have the proceedings sealed&comma; are a cautionary tale of what the American people face if Mr Trump is elected president&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Andrew Miltenberg&comma; Mr Nunberg&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Miltenberg said Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer argued for the documents to be sealed in a hearing on Wednesday morning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In particular&comma; Mr Nunberg said Mr Trump filed a 10 million dollar arbitration claim against him and falsely accused him of being a source of a New York Post story from mid-May that recounted a public quarrel between former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Lewandowski was fired from the campaign in June after months of tension with other senior Trump advisers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Nunberg denied being the source of the article&comma; but in court papers referred to the quarrel as being part of an &&num;8220&semi;apparent affair&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Hicks did not respond to detailed requests to respond to the allegations sent via email and text&comma; as well as a voicemail&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Nunberg has filed the court documents in an attempt to block private arbitration proceedings initiated by Mr Trump in May&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition to asserting a right to discuss the campaign on free speech grounds&comma; 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