Omarosa Has Tapes: Former Aide Clandestinely Recorded Trump

Omarosa Manigault, director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, listens to Vice President Mike Pence speak during a listening session with the historically black colleges and universities ... Omarosa Manigault, director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, listens to Vice President Mike Pence speak during a listening session with the historically black colleges and universities at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) MORE LESS
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Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman reportedly has a treasure trove of secretly-recorded tapes of West Wing conversations—including some with President Donald Trump.

According to a Wednesday Daily Beast report, Manigault has been playing the tapes to stir up anticipation for her upcoming memoir. One source confirmed to the Daily Beast that the recordings sounded like everyday office chatter, but that Trump’s voice was audible.

Released pages from Manigault’s book, “UNHINGED,” provide an insider look at the day to day machinations the tapes may contain.

According to pages obtained by the Daily Beast, Manigault depicts the administration’s aggressive anti-leaker tactics, as she and Trump’s daughter Ivanka gathered the names of reported leakers for then-communications director Anthony Scaramucci.

Per Manigault’s account, the final list included: Vanessa Morrone, Lindsay Walters, Janet Montesi, Raj Shah, Kelly Sadler, Lara Barger, Ory Rinat, Kate Karnes, Michael Short and Jessica Ditto. Short denied the accusations to the Daily Beast.

If the tapes do exist, it would be the second time in recent weeks that revelations surfaced that Trump was recorded without his knowledge. His former lawyer Michael Cohen also kept an audio record, and released to CNN a tape in late July on which Trump and Cohen discuss a hush money payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

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  1. So, Onorosa begins her rehabilitation? She is not a dumb person, just another grifter.

  2. IIRC, Spankee has supposedly also taped phone calls, etc., during his many years of cheating and swindling.

    Since he is most highly attracted to people who are as slimy as he is himself, I am surprised that he is surprised to find out that they’re just as slimy and vengeful as he is.

    Spankee is the fattest, ugliest snake in the gigantic nest of snakes that he calls his friends and family.

  3. Sigh. One of the saddest spectacles in our ongoing crisis is seeing all this childish unseriousness at literally the highest levels of our public life. I saw the tapes described as “anodyne,” just normal talk, but I imagine some people find it fascinating because it’s stuff you’re not supposed to hear. It’s like clandestine footage from a changing room. It wouldn’t be remarkable for any reason other than it’s a violation of someone’s privacy. It’s like there’s a culture of boundary violation, and that violation somehow for a certain yucky type of person is an obsessed-over goal in itself. That’s Trump, and people like him. Barging into dressing rooms, looking for dirt on people, taking away their dignity. These tapes are no big deal and yet they’re emblematic of the skulking smallness and vulgarity of what we’re dealing with here.

  4. A grifter with recordings? Who would have thunk it?

  5. I remember being told here about how security would have prevented James Comey (R-Obama Appointee) from recording his conversations with Trump.

    This story shows what a sorry excuse that was.

    Had Comey done his job, he would have opened a criminal investigation and returned to the White House wearing a wire and recorded Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice. But Comey was clearly pro-Trump until the moment Trump fired him.

    If there is any indication of possible relevance, Mueller should subpoena Omarosa’s recordings immediately.

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