The White House is looking into legals steps it could take to keep former staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman from releasing more damning recordings she made while working in the White House, ABC News reported Sunday evening.
According to White House officials who spoke to ABC, the inquiry into legal options would also serve as an opportunity to punish Manigault Newman for privately recording her conversations with Chief of Staff John Kelly. The threat of legal action comes on the heels of increasing paranoia in the West Wing over the former staffer’s recordings.
Publicly, the White House has sought to completely discredit Manigault Newman, but privately, aides are “terrified” of what the tape release could mean.
“She’s on a different level,” a senior White House official told ABC News. “She terrified me.”
“If you pissed off Omarosa, buckle up — it’s going to be a tough couple of weeks,” another former official told ABC.
Read the full report here.
This whole thing is being presented as “This has never happened before”… assuming that what has been printed is true, no one is searched before entering the situation room. Therefore, I have a difficult time believing that this is the first time anyone has recorded what is said. It may be the first time recordings have ever been played for reporters.
So much for public servant…
“She’s on a different level,” a senior White House official told ABC News. “She terrified me.”
I think what terrifies y’all now isn’t her. It’s the possibility of what Trump and other senior WH staff might be heard actually saying on the tapes.
Well, Kelly threatened her with legal problems if she talked, and she’s talking anyway. She’s very like the boss, isn’t she? No restraints at all when the id kicks in. This is what happens when you don’t care about character or competence. All Trump wants is loyalty and he doesn’t even get that. Pathetic. #toomuchwinning
Did she have clearance to be in on conversations touching on security? Then she won’t have tapes of those. Other conversations should be free from any risk of security breech.
Now…if the WH allowed a person into conversations for which the person did not have clearance, that’s something different.
They still don’t understand the job they are pretending to do.