Washington – It’s not just audiotapes.
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Omarosa Manigault Newman has a stash of video, emails, text messages and other documentation supporting the claims in her tell-all book about her time in the Trump White House, a person with direct knowledge of the records told The Associated Press Friday.
Manigault Newman has made clear that she plans to continue selectively releasing the pieces of evidence if President Donald Trump and his associates continue to attack her credibility and challenge the claims in her book, “Unhinged.” She’s already dribbled out audio recordings of conversations, and video clips, texts or email could follow, according to the person who described what Manigault Newman has called a multimedia “treasure trove.” The person was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly and asked for anonymity.
“I will not be silenced. I will not be intimidated. I’m not going to be bullied by Donald Trump,” the former Trump aide told The Associated Press this week as she seemed to dismiss a threat from Trump’s campaign. She spoke to the AP hours after Trump’s campaign announced it was filing an arbitration action against her alleging she’d violated a signed agreement with the campaign that prohibits her from disclosing confidential information.
She told PBS in a separate interview this week: “I have a significant amount, in fact, a treasure trove, of multimedia backup for everything that’s not only in “Unhinged,” but everything that I assert about Donald Trump.”
Manigault Newman claims Trump officials offered her a job on the campaign as a way of silencing her, after she was fired from the White House. She’s accused Trump of being racist and suffering from a mental decline.
The White House has countered by branding Manigault Newman as a disgruntled former staffer with credibility issues who is now trying to profit from a book based on false attacks against an individual she has called a mentor and has admired for more than a decade.
Trump has also lashed out at Manigault Newman, calling her a “lowlife,” ”wacky and deranged” and a “dog.”
Simon & Schuster this week also dismissed threatened legal action from Trump’s campaign. A campaign attorney told Simon & Schuster in a letter that “Unhinged” violated Manigault Newman’s confidentiality agreement, but the publisher responded that it was acting “well within” its rights.
“Unhinged” has spent the past few days at No. 2 on Amazon.com’s best-seller list, trailing only Rachel Hollis’ lifestyle book “Girl, Wash Your Face.”
Manigault Newman was director of communications for a White House office that networks with various constituency groups until she was fired last December by chief of staff John Kelly, citing “significant integrity issues.” Before joining the administration, Manigault Newman handled African-American outreach for Trump’s presidential campaign. She has known Trump since 2003, when she became a contestant on Trump’s TV show, “The Apprentice.”
She has already released several secret audio recordings, including of the meeting in which she was fired by Kelly.
In another recording, Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is heard offering Manigault Newman $15,000 a month – after she was fired from the White House – for a campaign job requiring her to be “positive.” Lara Trump is a senior adviser on Trump’s re-election campaign.
Manigault Newman also alleges that tape exists of Trump using a racial slur while working on “The Apprentice.” Trump has denied this, saying on Twitter that “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up.”
Shes a danger to Trump. Im afraid his silencing her will only make her go wilder. DEfinetly a breach in security at the WH if she cldve recorderd what she claims she has. You cannot trust a “dog” these days either.
My bro Munch says she really should not expect people to start liking her now just because she turned against Trump after he was already in office.
If it was about the Clintons she would be suddenly dead, remember White Water and how many deaths that added up. I can’t imagine no one notice she had all that equipment on her unless someone else was helping her with all that. Look for a second helper???
She knows Trump very well and she is not afraid and she builds her life to bring him down.
The White House staff did not like Omarosa, as in their eyes, she was “too uppity” for them. They felt threatened by a strong Black female. She was not fired for not doing her job . She was fired for not putting up with the BS, which was thrown her way. Trump has no legal case against her, and he knows it, in spite of his threats, and bullying. D.C. is a one way telephone recording jurisdiction; legally, that means that one does not need the other consent of the other party to record telephone conversations. Further, there was no classified information recorded, and hence, no federal laws were broken. Trump had a lot of chutzpah in trying to intimidate Simon and Shuster, to stop publishing her book. This is still a free country. Trump is now going to lose sleep over what else Omarosa may or may not release. Bring it on!