Did Omarosa secretly tape Trump?

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Omarosa Manigault Newman plays nice at the White House but she’s proving to be skillful at promoting her “tell-all” book regarding her entire time at the White House with leaked hints and allegations. The latest semi-juicy gossip regarding the forthcoming Unhinged (An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House) landed on Wednesday in The Daily Beast. It was reported that the flamboyant former reality-TV star secretly taped her conversations with President Donald Trump on her smartphone. On August 14, 2018, Omarosa could be reached for comment on whether or not this is true. But her publisher, Gallery Books (a division of Simon & Schuster) said in a statement to USA TODAY that without commenting on the specific contents of Unhinged, they are confident that Omarosa Manigault Newman can substantiate her highly-anticipated account of Trump’s life inside the White House.

The mere existence of such recordings represents 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,” The Daily Beast sniffed. The president has already demonstrated he’s not a fan of being secretly recorded as his ex-attorney Michael Cohen learned when Trump found out Cohen had secretly taped his former client. But the longtime mutual admiration between Trump and Omarosa evaporated for good in December, when she was terminated and escorted from the White House complex following a turbulent year when she was a presidential assistant who clashed with people she shouldn’t have clashed with.