This morning Omarosa released a new recording of a phone call with Trump – after she was told about her termination from John Kelly. The call confirms that Trump didn’t know she was getting fired.
Watch:
#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
Here’s more from Fox News:
The recording was released on NBC’s “Today” Monday morning, purporting to capture a conversation between Manigault-Newman and Trump after she was fired by Kelly in December.
“Omarosa what’s going on? I just saw in the news that you’re thinking about leaving. What happened?” Trump asks on the recording.
“General Kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave,” Omarosa responds.
“No. Nobody ever told me about it,” Trump replied.
“Wow,” Omarosa said.
“You know, they run a big operation, but I didn’t know it,” Trump is recorded saying. “… God dammit. I don’t love you leaving at all.”
White House responds…
Reacting to the tape, White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley described the frenzy as the work of a “disgruntled” and “self-serving” former official.
“The thought of doing something like that to a fellow employee, not to mention the leader of the free world, is completely disgraceful,” he told “Fox & Friends.”
Giuliani responds…
“Donald Trump made her,” Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told “Fox & Friends” on Monday. “What kind of ingratitude is this?”
When asked about Manigault-Newman’s secretly recorded conversations with both the chief of staff and the president, Giuliani said the former aide was in violation of White House rules.
“She’s certainly violating national security regulations,” Giuliani said Monday.
Giuliani also denied that White House officials pressured or attacked her, saying if anyone wanted to hurt her, they could have leaked derogatory information to the media, like, “Everybody in the White House thinks she’s a backstabber.”
CNN is suggesting this morning that nothing will likely happen to Omarosa for these recordings, but I think that remains to be seen.
We’ll let you know if something develops on that front.