The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday blasted President Donald Trump following reports that White House staffers were made to sign nondisclosure agreements.
According to The Washington Post, staffers in Trump's White House were required to sign agreements, which extend past his time in office, early in his term.
"Public employees can't be gagged by private agreements," said Ben Wizner, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology project director, said in a statement. "These so-called NDAs are unconstitutional and unenforceable."
Although the White House did not respond to the Post's requests for comment, Trump expressed support for making federal employees sign nondisclosure agreements prior to his election.
"I think they should," Trump said in April 2016, when asked if he would make federal employees sign NDAs. "And I don't know, there could be some kind of a law that you can't do this. But when people are chosen by a man to go into government at high levels and then they leave government and they write a book about a man and say a lot of things that were really guarded and personal, I don't like that. I mean, I'll be honest. And people would say, 'oh, that's terrible, you're taking away his right to free speech.' Well, he's going in."
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