The word on the street is that White House staffers are terrified of the next recording Omarosa might release that could include them:
POLITICO – A daily trickle of revealing internal conversations between staffers. Growing anxiety about what one might have once said. No sense of how long it will go on.
Omarosa Manigault Newman’s slow release of secretly taped conversations from inside the Trump campaign and White House is having the same effect on staffers as the daily dumps from WikiLeaks had on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, when chairman John Podesta’s emails were trickled out during the final stretch of the race.
“People are terrified,” one former Trump aide said of the tapes. “Absolutely terrified.”
According to someone who’s heard the recordings, they don’t contain any bombshells. But they are still juicy:
The latest reveal indicates that Manigault Newman isn’t just trying to discredit the president, who is the subject of her book, “Unhinged.” In her crusade for publicity and payback, she’s willing to embarrass and expose her former colleagues along the way.
The result is the same type of psychological warfare that gripped the Clinton campaign two years ago — with staffers, and anyone tangentially in their orbit — waking up every morning bracing themselves for what potentially embarrassing missive might be made public, and waiting for the onslaught to end.
Like the WikiLeaks dump — which severely damaged the Clinton campaign by taking it off message, but never produced a smoking gun — Manigault Newman’s tapes, according to someone who has listened to them, are juicy to listen to, but ultimately don’t contain any bombshell about the president or his family.
Former senior staffers also said they felt safer because Manigault Newman was not included in small, high-level meetings. And they doubted that she taped the one broader senior staff meeting that she attended, which included about 25 people.
“But if I was on the communications staff, where she was interacting more with people,” said another former senior administration official, “I can see how people might be nervous.”
Who in the world will ever trust Omarosa again after all of this? Not only did she secretly record people without their permission, but by releasing them like this she’s using it to bully Trump and the White House.
She’s really doing a lot of harm to her reputation in her quest for revenge after being fired. And it wouldn’t surprise me at the end if the day if the DOJ found a reason to nab her and all her recordings.