Judge orders Trump to prove why lawsuit against ex-aide should be private

A judge on Thursday ordered presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump to prove why his lawsuit against a former campaign aide should be arbitrated outside of a courtroom, The Daily Beast reported.

Judge Eileen Bransten said the presumptive GOP nominee or his attorneys need to show on Aug. 10 in New York Supreme Court why the suit against former campaign consultant Sam Nunberg should be kept in arbitration.

{mosads}Trump accused Nunberg of violating a nondisclosure agreement by leaking confidential information to reporters.

The candidate is seeking $10 million in damages from the former campaign aide for breaching a confidentiality agreement.

Nunberg, who filed court documents to block private arbitration proceedings that Trump initiated in May, said Trump accused him of being a source in a May New York Post story about a public quarrel between former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and spokeswoman Hope Hicks. Nunberg denied that he was the source. 

He said in court filings Trump was attempting to “use the sword of private arbitration proceedings against me to silence media coverage” of a “sordid and apparently illicit affair.”

Nunberg was fired from Trump’s campaign last August after making racially insensitive comments on Facebook.