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Source: The Daily Beast
Not even the interns are exempt from the legally dubious rite of passage practiced by the Trump White House.
Asawin Suebsaeng
02.21.19 5:00 AM ET
When the Trump White House welcomed its newest batch of interns earlier this year, the director of the internship program, Zoe Jackman, did what administration officials normally do when fresh blood arrives: She warned them against being leakers.
Soon enough, according to three sources familiar with the process, a representative from the White House counsels office materialized to greet the newcomers, and to demand what the Trump White House has required of so many other interns and senior officials.
Upon orientation, the interns signed their very own non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), with the envoy of the counsels office warning them that a breach of the NDAblabbing to the media, for instancecould result in legal, and thus financial, consequences for them. Interns were also told that they would not receive their own copies, these sources said.
This was all a standard facet of the Trump intern orientation process, billed as an ethics trainingunderscored by implicit legal threats from President Donald Trumps in-house lawyers.
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