A Daily Beast Exclusive
By Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng and Maxwell Tani
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, isn’t the only one with secretly recorded audio of the president.
Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Daily Beast that Omarosa Manigault-Newman,
the infamous former Apprentice star who followed Trump to the White
House, secretly recorded conversations with the president—conversations
she has since leveraged while shopping her forthcoming “tell-all” book, bluntly titled UNHINGED.
For months, it has been rumored
that Manigault had clandestinely recorded on her smartphone “tapes” of
unspecified private discussions she had in the West Wing. Audio actually
does exist, and even stars Manigault’s former boss.
One person
confirmed to The Daily Beast they had heard at least one of her
recordings featuring President Trump. Multiple sources familiar with the
so-called “Omarosa tapes” described the recorded conversations between
Trump and Manigault as anodyne, everyday chatter, but said they did
appear to feature Trump’s voice, either over the phone or in-person.
The
mere existence of such recordings represent a dramatic betrayal of
trust by a one-time Trump confidant who has since abandoned years of
professed loyalty to the president and has apparently decided to profit
off her years of closeness to Trump.
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