Sam Nunberg was a former aide/adviser to the Donald Trump campaign who was fired for previously leaking salacious inflammatory information to the media. Upon firing Nunberg went to join the Ted Cruz campaign, and became a Cruz advocate.

Later it was revealed that Nunberg had written very divisive and racist material to his social media.

Everyone distanced themselves from him.

However, as a result of the initial firing, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against Nunberg for violating the terms of a confidentiality agreement. Mr. Nunberg is facing the very real possibility of losing a $10 million civil action.

That’s the backdrop for today, when, in an effort to skirt around the non-disclosure confidentiality agreement, Nunberg, through his lawyers, leaked their response to the Trump lawsuit.

The Associated Press was first out of the gate with the story. The remaining MSM, generally -and transparently- biased against Trump, latched on to the leaked Nunberg legal filing and is now selling their own custom story about the lawsuit.

Time Inc, provides copies of all the current legal Nunberg response filings which can be seen here.

Nunberg previously claimed Ms. Hope Hicks (Trump Communication Lead) and Mr. Corey Lewandowski (former Trump Campaign Head) were having an affair. This claim was without any foundation other than the asserted word of Mr. Nunberg.

In essence that’s what led to Nunberg’s original firing, and the reason the Trump campaign lawyers requested the lawsuit be sealed to protect the character of Hicks and Lewandowski.

Both Ms. Hicks and Mr. Lewandowski have families who Donald Trump sought to protect from any salacious media inquisitions.

Mr. Nunberg is attempting to litigate/deflect the substantive issues surrounding his firing, and the associated breech of contract, through the media as a legal strategy. In doing so Nunberg’s “leverage” per se’, is to get the $10 million lawsuit dropped by positioning (threatening) an uncomfortable story (Hicks/Lewandowski) to come out amid the published headlines of the lawsuit.

In order to maximize the impact, the Nunberg legal response, and the associated media leak, was timed to coincide with the lead-up to the GOP convention. The timing is simply to provide greater leverage, and to create additional anxiety around a time when the removal of distractions is a campaign goal. Nothing more.

Those of you familiar with CTH discussion threads will note our own presentation surrounding why Mr. Lewandowski was later released from the Trump campaign.