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photograph of 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump in a residential
backyard near Jordan Creek Parkway and Cody Drive in West Des Moines, Iowa, with lights and security cameras. Photo: Tony Webster | FlickrCC. |
Elizabeth Davidson, who once
worked as an organizer for Donald Trump in Iowa, was fired in January and has filed
a discrimination complaint against the campaign. She says that she was
fired for being quoted in a New York Times article. She was accused of
violating a non-disclosure agreement and disparaging campaign leadership.
She says she didn’t do either
of those things and that the men in the same position who had done worse had
not been fired. She also said that she was paid less than her peers, all of
whom are men, and that when she met Trump in April, he commented on her
appearance and not on her performance as an organizer.
The allegations are easy to
prove in her favor. For one, the article in question is available to re-read,
and in that article, Ms. Davidson was praised as one of the most effective
organizers they had, which puts the lie to Trump’s own statements.
He said he didn’t know who she
was, and that she was fired because she was terrible at her job, something his
people assured him was true. He also stated that he never made a statement
about her appearance, and that such language isn’t in his vocabulary. However,
we know that isn’t true at all because everyone is familiar with how Trump
treats women.
As to the pay scale, those
numbers are easy enough to find. According to the New York Times Davidson was
paid $2,000 a month for her work, while her peers were paid $3,500 to $4,000
for the same job. She was listed as part time because she had another job, an
irrelevant fact in this economy, but one of her male peers, who was paid more,
also had another job.
Trump hasn’t responded to the
charges, other than the comment on Ms. Davidson’s appearance, but he did make
sure to criticize the Times for printing an article about the complaint before
the Iowa caucus because it could have hurt his chances. Maybe that’s why he
lost to Cruz.
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