Omarosa Manigault Newmanhas released another recording from her stash of secret tapes — this time of campaign official Lara Trump offering the ex-White House aide a $15,000-a-month job onPresident Trump‘s re-election campaign.
“Clearly, if you come on board the campaign, like, we can’t have, we got to,” she continues, before Manigault Newman cuts in, “Oh, God no.”
Lara continues, “Everything, everybody, positive, right?”
She added that she “absolutely” saw the offer as “hush money.”
Manigault Newman also describes the phone call in her explosive new tell-all,Unhinged, about her time in the Trump White House, claiming that the job was offered on the condition of signing a non-disclosure agreement. Manigault Newman says she didn’t accept the job.
Lara responded in a lengthy statement on Thursday, saying:
From the beginning of my father-in-law’s campaign, Omarosa was welcomed into our family as a trusted friend and confidant. On the Women for Trump tour, including Omarosa, we formed a sisterhood bond that is unlike any I have experienced in my life. We toured together, laughed together, and worked really hard towards a common goal. We never would have imagined that one of our own was secretly recording all of our private conversations.
Manigault Newman did not play the full recording of the call on MSNBC, instead sharing four excerpts. NBC News said itlistened to the full conversationand that “the clips are in context.”
In another excerpt Manigault Newman released on Thursday, Lara is heard saying that “the only thing that we have to consider, where we’re talking salary as far as the campaign is concerned, is that, as you know, everything is public.
“And that all the money that we raise and that pays salaries is directly from donors, small-dollar donors for the most part. So, I know you, you were making 179 at the White House. And I think we can work something out where we keep you right along those lines,” Lara continues, later adding, “So that’s $180,000. Does that sound like a fair deal for you?”
The formerApprenticestar, who is in the midst of a media blitz promoting her new book, has claimed that she also secretly recorded private phone calls withIvanka TrumpandJared Kushner,Politico reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
Politico says that the alleged new tape could serve as proof that Kushner and Ivanka, both senior advisors to the president, were not in the loop on important staffing changes.
“And it would show them offering emotional support to Manigault Newman even after Kelly pushed her out for ethical breaches — capturing on tape the power play between the family and the retired four-star general that has played out in the White House since Kelly joined the administration,” Politico writes.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has saidManigault Newman’s book is “riddled with lies and false accusations.”
In the past week, Manigault Newman has released recordings of conversations with Kelly and the president that she claims prove Trump “has no idea what’s happening in the White House.”
On Sunday, she took to NBC’sMeet the Pressto release a tape ofKelly firing her last yearin the Situation Room.
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At one point on the recording, Manigault Newman asked whether Trump was aware that she was being fired, and Kelly responded, “Let’s not go down the road,” adding that “the staff and everyone on the staff works for me, not the president.”
Manigault Newman told NBC’s Chuck Todd that she believed that statement showed that “Donald Trump has no idea what’s happening in the White House” — although she went on to admit that after having “subsequent conversations” with Trump, she learned that he did in fact know she was being fired.
In the audio tape, a voice purportedly belonging to Trump sounds surprised to hear that Kelly had given Manigault Newman the axe.
“Omarosa? Omarosa what’s going on? I just saw on the news that you’re thinking about leaving? What happened?” Trump is heard saying on the tape.
He goes on to say that “nobody even told me about it,” adding, “You know they run a big operation, but I didn’t know it. I didn’t know that. Goddamn it. I don’t love you leaving at all.”
Trump has also accused Manigault Newman of lying in her book, calling her a “dog” and a “lowlife” in a series of vicious tweets this week.
source: people.com
