Omarosa Manigault Newman Claims She Recorded John Kelly In The Situation Room
I have no use for grifter and former Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, who has been making the rounds promoting her new book, but the question that's worth asking here is that if Newman was allowed to make these recordings without their knowledge, who else was recording as well? Other staffers? The Russians?
Newman made an appearance on this Sunday's Meet the Press, where host Chuck Todd played a portion of the recordings of Newman's firing by John Kelly, and amazingly, that possibly didn't set off alarm bells with Todd:
CHUCK TODD: Alright. I want to go to your White House time and we'll start—
OMAROSA MANIGAULT NEWMAN: Please.
CHUCK TODD: -- on your last day. Were you fired or did you resign? What's the story?
OMAROSA MANIGAULT NEWMAN: Oh, it's –
CHUCK TODD: What, what, what do we call this?
OMAROSA MANIGAULT NEWMAN: It's pretty clear from that recording that John Kelly came in and said "This is the end, we want you to leave." But what's interesting is, they take me into the Situation Room, the doors are locked. They tell me I can't leave. And they start to threaten me, put fear in me, to put me under duress.
CHUCK TODD: Look I'm going to play -- I want to play this tape but I'm curious, how is it -- you recorded the Chief of Staff –
OMAROSA MANIGAULT NEWMAN: Absolutely.