Exclusive: Former Trump aide Omarosa may have taped White House discussions, fears Mueller wants to talk to her
Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman may have taped confidential West Wing conversations and fears being caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, sources told the Daily News on Thursday.
The former reality-TV star’s official last day in the Trump administration is Saturday — despite the abrupt announcement of her departure last month — and her next step seems to be lawyering up.
The soon-to-be former assistant to President Trump and director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison has held exploratory meetings with several high profile attorneys for potential representation, a source told The News. Manigault-Newman has met with Harvey Weinstein’s former attorney Lisa Bloom and former Bill Cosby lawyer Monique Pressley, among others.It is not immediately clear why the former “Apprentice” star is seeking legal help, but those with knowledge of her unceremonious removal from the White House say she is “very concerned” that trouble is on the horizon. The 43-year-old apparently believes she may become a fixture in Mueller’s investigation into possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia’s election meddling.
“Everyone knows Omarosa loves to record people and meetings using the voice notes app on her iPhone,” a source disclosed. “Don’t be surprised if she has secret audio files on everyone in that White House, past and present staffers included.”A recent ban on personal cell phones in the West Wing, which followed the release of Michael Wolff’s explosive White House tell-all, was related to Manigault-Newman’s track record of recording conversations, the source added.
But a White House insider balked at the idea of Manigault-Newman being privy to any inside information that could be relevant to Mueller’s probe — or of interest to anyone else for that matter.
A recent report from Life & Style Weekly claimed Manigault-Newman could get upward of $10 million for a book deal. The White House and Manigault-Newman did not respond to requests for comment.
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We will see what happens with this, I'm not sure of the source of the story but, if it is true she could have the "missing tapes" that will prove a "Watergate" in this White House.
This story is much too "maybe" for me to get excited. We need to learn a LOT more...
Same here, I always presumed She was mere fluff and had little to do with day to day operations. But then again it seems that the WH suffers from diarrhea of the mouth as a group, so She may have been in the proximity to record whatever goes on in that madhouse.
As you said, we shall see.
ever notice how the wrongly named 'right' will run with ANYTHING even without facts, while those left or central, tend to be cautiously optimistic...
That's the problem with being fact-oriented. We are skeptical of everything.
There's no symmetry. On the right, denialism is the rule. On the left, realism is the rule. There are exceptions, of course, but this is one of the fundamental left-right differentiations today.
IMHO, there's just one other: the left is "us" while the right is "me". This is the most fundamental difference, but the other is required in order to justify me-oriented policies in a community.
Remember what Will Rogers said, "I don't belong to an organized political party, I'm a Democrat."
I think it’s illegal to tape other people’s conversations in DC, unless one party to the conversation consents. So, if she taped something and doesn’t have consent, then she may need a lawyer.
It occurred in DC so it's alright, nothing is illegal there unless you get caught, then you get book and movie rights.
They have different rules than you and I it would seem.
If that's true, it's the fault of the GOP Congress since they are in control of DC, and I don't mean just in the Federal government. The Congress has control of most of the laws in the District of Columbia.
The person with the tape recorder can give consent to recording the conversation.
Meaning, she had to be a party to the conversation.
She is 'one party to the conversation'.
If she was present during the conversation then she is ONE of the PEOPLE involved in the conversation, she gave herself permission to record.
I can't help but wonder whether a LLC is being created somewhere in Delaware to cut a check for her.
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Cohen would know that.