Omarosa Is Using Secret Trump Tapes to Sell Her Book

Loyalty, unsurprisingly, seems to be severely lacking among President Trump’s cronies. Today, we found out that former Apprentice contestant and Trump staff Omarosa Manigault-Newman secretly recorded conversations with the president and has played those tapes for others, according to a report from The Daily Beast.

Unlike Trump’s former lawyer and confidante Michael Cohen, who was the last of Trump’s friends to secretly record him, Manigault-Newman’s tapes aren’t being used as leverage in court. Instead, she seemed to be using them to secure a book deal. Her forthcoming book, UNHINGED, will be published by Simon & Schuster.

However, the mere existence of these tapes doesn’t mean there’s anything interesting on them. The Daily Beast writes that “[m]ultiple 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.”

Her publisher would not confirm the existence of the tapes. “Without commenting on the specific contents of UNHINGED, we are confident that Omarosa Manigault Newman can substantiate her highly-anticipated account of life inside the Trump White House,” a Simon & Schuster spokesperson told The Daily Beast.

It’s still hard to believe that a notorious reality TV star was even allowed to work in the White House. But she’s gone now, and everything can go back to normal! Haha. Ha.