Omarosa released an audio which was played exclusively on Today, and appears to show Trump having no idea that Newman had been dismissed by his Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Trump is heard saying on the tape, which Newman said was made one day after her termination in December 2017 when Trump called her.
“Omarosa? Omarosa what’s going on? I just saw on the news that you’re thinking about leaving? What happened?”
Newman responds,
“General Kelly—General Kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave.”
Trump says,
“No… I, I, Nobody even told me about it.
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.”
The White House had no comment when asked about the exchange between Trump and Newman.
In an interview on Today, after the audio recording was played, Newman accused Trump of lying to the American people and said he didn’t know what was going on within his own administration.
“He doesn’t even know what’s happening in his White House. General Kelly, John Kelly is running this White House and Donald Trump has no clue what’s going on.
He’s being puppeted and that’s very dangerous for this nation.”
Newman said she had known Trump
“to be an entertainer — but I never thought he’d lie to the country.“
(Now THAT is hilarious!)
Omarosa told NBC’s Meet the Press, in an exclusive interview on Sunday, that she has personally heard a tape of Trump using the N-word during filming for NBC’s The Apprentice — a revelation she says
“confirmed that he is truly a racist.“
Newman made the charge days before the release on Tuesday of her new book, Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.
Today she said there were “multiple tapes” but that the one she had described previously was an audio tape that was “about three minutes” long.
On it, Trump
“was talking about some African-Americans in the production during the course of The Apprentice.‘”
Newman also alleged that the existence of the tape was known by top campaign aides back in 2016 and that a campaign spokesperson had said on a campaign conference call,
“I have heard from a credible source that yes, he said it.“
When asked Monday on Today, how she managed to tape Kelly inside such a secure area, Newman replied,
“I’ll just leave that to your imagination.“
The White House has slammed Newman in recent days as a “disgruntled” former employee. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Friday,
“Instead of telling the truth about all the good President Trump and his administration are doing to make America safe and prosperous, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations. It’s sad that a disgruntled former White House employee is trying to profit off these false attacks, and even worse that the media would now give her a platform, after not taking her seriously when she had only positive things to say about the President during her time in the administration.”
On Saturday, Trump blasted Newman as a “lowlife” in response to questions from reporters about her claims. And just a few minutes ago released these tweets…
Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her but heard….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
…really bad things. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work. When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me – until she got fired!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
(via NBC News)
