The following article by John Wagner was posted on the Washington Post website August 16, 2018:
President Trump’s relationship with Omarosa Manigault Newman goes back to “The Apprentice,” but has turned sour with her tell-all book and White House tapes. (Jenny Starrs /The Washington Post)
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman released a secret recording Thursday in a bid to bolster her contention that she was offered a $15,000-a-month contract from President Trump’s campaign to stay silent after being fired from her job.
On the recording, campaign aide Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, can be heard discussing salary considerations and other aspects of a campaign job with Manigault Newman and makes clear that she expects her to be positive about the president.
The release of the recording, during an interview with MSNBC, was the latest escalation of Manigault Newman’s feud with President Trump in the wake of the release of her tell-all book, “Unhinged,” which depicts him as racist and in mental decline.