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President Donald Trump‘s former aide and confidantOmarosa Manigault Newmanallegedly secretly recorded conversations she had with the president in the West Wing — and she’s played the tapes for others,The Daily Beast reports.
An unnamed source told The Daily Beast that they had listened to least one of Manigault Newman’s recordings featuring Trump, and multiple sources familiar with the tapes told the outlet that it appears to be Trump’s voice on the recordings. The sources described the conversations they heard as inoffensive and commonplace.
The news of the “Omarosa tapes” comes as Manigault Newman prepares to release her “tell-all” book,Unhinged,on Aug. 14.
A spokesperson for Simon & Schuster, the book’s publisher, declined to tell the Daily Beast whether the recordings exist. “Without commenting on the specific contents of UNHINGED,” the spokesperson said, “we are confident that Omarosa Manigault-Newman can substantiate her highly anticipated account of life inside the Trump White House.”
Neither The White House nor Manigault Newman immediately responded to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
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Trump commented on the matter at the time, tweeting, “Thank you Omarosa for your service! I wish you continued success.”
Manigault Newman’s secret recordings may come as a surprise to Trump, who once called his former aide “a loyal friend!”
After leaving the White House, the longtime Trump ally joined the reality showCelebrity Big Brother,where she revealed in February that she would never vote for Trump again “in a million years.”
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Manigault Newman’s alleged tapes follow a scandal that broke less than a month ago in which Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, released asecretly taped conversationhe’d had with Trump. In the recording, the two men appear to be discussing a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006. Trump has denied the affair.
source: people.com
