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Trump Aide Lied to the Court About Employment to Avoid Child Support Payments

Jason Miller signed secret deal to stay with DC-based Teneo after ‘resigning’ and then appeared to misrepresent employment status

by Murray Waas, The Guardian

March 25, 2021

A top aide to Donald Trump was secretly re-engaged by a leading political strategy firm after being forced to step down after a social media scandal, the Guardian can reveal. The company, Washington-based Teneo, wanted access to top Republicans in the then president’s inner circle, and to conceal his ongoing work.

Jason Miller – who remains close to Trump, and who today serves as a senior adviser to the former president – also later appears to have misled a Florida court about this employment status, asserting in a sworn statement that he could no longer comply with a court order requiring him to pay child-support payments because of an alleged “major financial setback” and was effectively out of work.

Miller cited his termination as a reason he could not meet court-mandated payments – even though he had secretly agreed to a new contract with Teneo that meant doing the same work for the same fee.

Miller resigned as a managing editor of Teneo, the powerhouse corporate advisory firm, on 21 June 2019, after posting a series of obscenity-laced tweets about Democratic congressman Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House judiciary committee.

“I have parted ways with Teneo by mutual consent and look forward to … my next move,” Miller said in a statement he provided to the New York Times and other news outlets.

But Miller’s departure from Teneo was a sham. Previously undisclosed confidential records from inside Teneo show that on the same day Miller signed a formal “separation agreement and general release” from Teneo, he signed a new contract with the firm, whereby Teneo agreed to secretly engage Miller as a consultant, through a hastily formed LLC, at the very same base compensation of nearly $500,000 doing the very same work.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/25/jason-miller-trump-aide-teneo-secret-deal-pr-firm

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37 minutes ago, Dan T. said:

But Miller’s departure from Teneo was a sham. Previously undisclosed confidential records from inside Teneo show that on the same day Miller signed a formal “separation agreement and general release” from Teneo, he signed a new contract with the firm, whereby Teneo agreed to secretly engage Miller as a consultant, through a hastily formed LLC, at the very same base compensation of nearly $500,000 doing the very same work.

 

 

 

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I like how they say it is a big announcement as if anyone is shocked a Trump is going to be a Fox contributor.

 

Also, the Murdoch is about to launch a version of Fox News in the U.K.   I really hope these other countries have better ways at combating the nonsense than America has, because it's been a takeover of the mindset for almost 50% of this country.

 

The wealthy are no longer content in just turning America into ultra right-wing savages that advocate for billionaire-friendly economic policies, they are spreading the message now. 

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Indiana Senate congratulates Pence on his 'retirement'

 

Mike Pence’s political career is over.

 

That at least is the opinion of the Republican-controlled Indiana Senate, which unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday congratulating the former vice president and Indiana governor on his “retirement.”

 

Senate Resolution 33 declares the Senate honors Pence “upon his retirement" and "thanks him for his many years of service to the state of Indiana and the United States of America.”

 

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Pence signs a seven-figure book deal, but Trump and other administration alums face a tough market in publishing

 

Mike Pence has signed a multimillion-dollar, two-book deal with publisher Simon & Schuster, making him one of the first alums of former President Donald Trump's inner circle to ink such a lucrative contract.

 

Two people in the publishing industry tell CNN the former vice president's deal is worth seven figures, somewhere in the range of $3 million to $4 million.


News of it comes as the publishing industry grapples with questions of how to handle high-profile would-be authors from the Trump administration.


The concern, according to highly placed sources in publishing, is whether the writers could be counted on to tell the truth -- and whether a publisher might provoke a damaging backlash in the culture of cancellation.


"I would try to keep an open mind," said one publishing source. "That doesn't mean I would sign them."


Recent veterans of the Trump administration who want to write books are already facing a higher bar than others for getting a contract, according to seven senior people who work in the book publishing industry. They agreed to speak candidly about trends in the industry in exchange for anonymity.


Kellyanne Conway, the former counselor to Trump who left the White House last August, is also reportedly writing a book for a major publishing house.

 

A book from Trump would likely be an instant best-seller, but publishers anticipate he'll expect an exorbitant advance and that the process of putting it together could be too difficult to make it worth the effort and money. Trump, major publishing executives say, would likely have to self-publish, especially if the smaller independent houses won't be able to pay a large enough advance.


"It's not that the book wouldn't sell, it's that he is impossible to fact check or do business with," said one person at a major publishing house.

 

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