Posted on 09/10/2018 9:52:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Monday released new tapes of President Trump in a private meeting talking about former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's ties to Russia.
Manigault Newman played the audio recording on ABC's "The View," prefacing it by saying it is from an October 2017 meeting with the White House communications and press teams.
"When Donald Trump got bored, which was very often because his attention span was very short, he would sometimes try to figure out what meetings were taking place in the White House and he would crash those meetings," Manigault Newman said. "This was a meeting with the entire communications staff and the press shop. We were meeting to talk about tax reform or his trip to North Korea."
"He came into the meeting, he sat down, and he starts rambling from topic to topic, none of it makes sense," she said. "And this is in October of last year, so this is … twelve months after the election, and he’s still talking about Hillary Clinton."
In the tape, Trump claims the "real Russia story is Hillary and collusion," a statement that he has made in public multiple times. He alleges the Clinton campaign paid $9 million for an unidentified "phony report."
When White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says it is "closer to six [million]," Trump says she is wrong, adding the money was "spent through a law firm."
"That way, they can't trace it," he says. "But they traced it. One thing in this business is they trace it."
"The reason a law firm is because this way you don’t have to give any papers," he adds. "But they found out, it’s definitely illegal and it’s illegal from a campaign standpoint, from a campaign financing standpoint."
At the end of the tape, Trump looks to his staff for affirmation.
"So the whole Russia thing, I think, seems to have turned around. What do you think, Sarah?" he asks.
"Absolutely," Huckabee Sanders can be heard replying.
Manigault Newman said the tape backs up her claims that Trump is mentally unstable.
The former Trump ally and co-star of reality television show "Celebrity Apprentice" has released multiple tapes from her time in the White House. In one tape, chief of staff John Kelly can be heard firing her in the Situation Room; in another, Trump acts surprised to hear that Manigault Newman has been fired.
She has been releasing the tapes as part of a media blitz following the release of her tell-all White House memoir "Unhinged."
"Do you think y’all knowingly lied to the American people?" one of the "View" hosts, actress Whoopi Goldberg, asked Manigault Newman on the show.
"Absolutely," Manigault Newman replied. "We would have to go out as the comms team and repeat verbatim what you just heard."
Exactly! I even think Trump talks about he is cultivated this habit in his books. He would show up unannounced because he wanted to know how the lower level employees felt about upper management decisions.
“Yeah, but he said $9 million when it may only be $6 million.”
Between Hillary and the DNC, the payments (laundered through Perkins Coie) were over $10 million. There was almost another million from Obama.
All told, the payments for the Russia Dossier are $12 million.
Where it all went I do not know.
Omarosa wasn’t a member of the communications team.
Omarosa was the coffee fetcher for the communications team.
She doesn’t get the difference.
Trump, in contrast to Clinton, is a very stable genius.
Is she a secret double agent for Trump??
She will have to be prosecuted for both recording and sharing information about a military operation now.
>> Arrest this effing C-word!<<
What are you smoking? You know very well that short of committing a homicide on camera by shooting and stabbing to death a wheelchair-bound Muslim in front of a mosque, she couldn’t possibly be arrested and charged with a crime because not only is she a female, she’s a non-white female! Welcome to the USA!
I missed any comment that it was a meeting about military ops, but I tend to agree she should be prosecuted, particularly for any tapes made in a SCIF. My nothing-burger comment was that her ‘reveal’ was about nothing, in case that wasn’t obvious.
Much ado about nothing.
This ain’t the Watergate tapes. Donald Trump is the opposite of Richard Nixon.
Like I said, they really need to keep this up. They aren’t detaching us from Trump.
What’s happening is these attacks are backfiring on the Left.
“In the tape, Trump claims the “real Russia story is Hillary and collusion,” a statement that he has made in public multiple times. He alleges the Clinton campaign paid $9 million for an unidentified “phony report.”
And.....? So what’s the big deal here?? President Trump is 100% correct.”
Yeah. I don’t get it. Why would Omarosa and the View play that clip? It just reinforces that Hillary is corrupt.
Whoopi can say it’s a lie, yet if it were a lie wouldn’t there be an audio clip of the POTUS saying something to the effect that what he said about Hillary was incorrect and just for show?
What the heck is going on? It doesn’t make sense to release this nothing tape nor does it give the Dems the advantage.
Yeah, I’m beginning to wonder if Omarosa is an idiot...or a Double-Naught spy.
LOL. I loved the Beverly Hillbillies.
I just wondered...maybe...as these recordings leak drip by drip....what if they ALL support what PDJT says in public?
Could it be possible...this is part of “the plan”??????
lol
Used to do it a lot and it works great with top level, A quality people.
Other people can be really intimidated and freaked out when the CEO walks in to see how things are going and discuss the status of their projects.
Nope.
Funny...
Thanks.
That’s funny.
One party.
Monday on ABC’s “The View,” former Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman played a newly released tape she said was from a White House meeting last October.
Trump was referring to reports about the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee using a law firm to retain Fusion GPS to do research about potential connections between candidate Donald Trump and Russia.
Fusion GPS hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele who authored the controversial dossier.
Partial transcript as follows:
DONALD TRUMP: I think Hillary is getting killed now with Russia. The real Russia story is Hillary and collusion. Somebody told me, Hope you told me it was $9 million they spent on the phony report.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: Closer to six.
HOPE HICKS: Yeah, someone just said, ‘She’s far worse for the country than we thought, she didn’t know her own campaign was spending $9 million dollars.’
DONALD TRUMP: Did you see? Nobody knows who spent. No I heard it was nine. I heard it was 5.7 but now they say it was nine. It was spent through a law firm so that way they can’t trace it. But they trace it, one thing in this business they trace it. And yeah, close to nine million dollars I can’t even believe it. The reason a law firm, you don’t have to give any papers. But they found out. It’s definitely illegal and it’s illegal from a campaign standpoint, from a campaign financing standpoint. So the whole Russia thing I think seems to have turned around. What do you think, Sarah?
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: Absolutely.
Manigault Newman said the tape backs up her claims that Trump is mentally unstable.
So, this proves Trump is mentally unstable?
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