A former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign alleges in a discrimination suit that she was dumped from the campaign staff and barred from getting a White House job because she was impregnated by her supervisor.
Arlene “AJ” Delgado, a prominent conservative pundit, joined the Trump campaign in August 2016 and says she made more than 100 TV appearances over the next three months to stump for the the future president.
Delgado learned in November 2016 that she became pregnant with campaign strategist Jason Miller’s child — and the alleged discrimination started soon after, according to her suit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday.
When she told Miller, he responded that she could not be seen “waddling around the White House pregnant,” according to the suit. Miller, who has a wife, has publicly admitted that the child is his.
After she told senior campaign staff of her pregnancy, she was ostracized further, according to the suit.
Sean Spicer, who would eventually be named Trump’s press secretary, allegedly told Delgado during a December 2016 call that the White House is “no place for a new mom.”
Delgado says her supervisors stripped her of her job responsibilities from late December until Trump’s Jan. 20, 2017, inauguration and has since been denied a job with the White House.
She “was even prohibited from making previously scheduled television appearances on and around Inauguration Day,” her suit states.
Delgado, a Harvard grad who practiced law in the Big Apple, said she was snubbed for a White House job despite that fact that she had been a vocal supporter of Trump as far back as 2015, when elected officials in his own party expressed opposition to his campaign.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.