Omarosa Manigault Newman leaks audio of Trump allegedly reacting to her firing: 'I don't love you leaving at all'
Omarosa Manigault Newman‘s press tour shows no sign of cooling. Following her appearance on Meet the Press on Sunday, during which the ousted White House aide played an audio recording of a conversation with chief of staff John Kelly, Manigault Newman hit up Today on Monday morning to share what she claims is President Trump‘s reaction to Kelly’s firing her last December.
Manigault Newman — who is promoting her tell-all book, Unhinged, about her time in the White House — claims to have secretly taped conversations with various officials. Having already leaked a snippet of her dismissal by Kelly, she’s now revealing a clip in which her former Apprentice co-star Trump bemoans her departure.
#Breaking: @OMAROSA provides @NBCNews with this exclusive excerpt of a recording of a phone call that she says she received from President Trump the day after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired her. pic.twitter.com/OJe47RdcDC
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 13, 2018
The audio recording — which does not provide the full conversation with Trump — allegedly dates back to the day after Kelly fired Manigault Newman. The president expresses disbelief at her dismissal, which he claims he “didn’t know” about until he saw it on the news.
He also sounds upset, saying “Goddamn it. … I don’t love you leaving at all.” In an interview with Today‘s Savannah Guthrie, Manigault Newman said Trump was “absolutely” a liar, but she became defensive when Guthrie pressed her about why she chose to work for him.
“Do you think the President lies often?” –@savannahguthrie
“Oh, absolutely.” –@OMAROSA pic.twitter.com/6PXZ21UMTD
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 13, 2018
“He is known to be an entertainer, to exaggerate, but I never expected him to lie to the country,” she responded.
She also repeated her claim that there is footage of Trump using a racial slur during filming of The Apprentice.
“It’s about 3 minutes… it’s audio.” @OMAROSA says of alleged tape from “The Apprentice” years in which Donald Trump used the N-word pic.twitter.com/DHfqjSR1rJ
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 13, 2018
Meanwhile, Maggie Haberman of the New York Times quotes Trump as calling Manigault Newman a “lowlife.”
In the press pool today, I asked @realDonaldTrump if he had a response to Omarosa. He held hand to mouth, as if to whisper: “Lowlife. She’s a lowlife.”
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 11, 2018
He has since tweeted a new attack on Manigault Newman.
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
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