Days after Manigault Newman left the administration last December, President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, called to offer her a $180,000 salary in-line with her White House pay if she was willing to join the Trump campaign team. Part of Manigault Newman’s conversation with Trump was aired on MSNBC.
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Omarosa releases secret tape of Lara Trump offering her $15K-a-month campaign job. The tape, which was broadcast on MSNBC, was made just days after the former "Apprentice" contestant left her White House job. Breaking News Emails. Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
In another excerpt of the recording, Lara Trump, who is married to Donald Trump's son Eric, is heard explaining to Manigault Newman that "the only thing that we have to consider, where we're talking salary as far as the campaign is concerned, is that, as you know, everything is public."
Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former reality TV star who became a top White House aide to President Donald Trump, on Thursday released exclusively to MSNBC a secret tape of campaign official Lara Trump offering her a $15,000-a-month job after she was fired from the administration.
On the new tape, Lara Trump says: "It sounds a little like, obviously, that there are some things you've got in the back pocket to pull out. Clearly, if you come on board the campaign, like, we can't have, we got to," she continues, before Manigault Newman interjects, "Oh, God no."
Trump tweeted a link to the video, and wrote, "Thank you for the kind words Omarosa!"
In another excerpt of the recording, Lara Trump, who is married to Donald Trump 's son Eric, is heard explaining to Manigault Newman that "the only thing that we have to consider, where we're talking salary as far as the campaign is concerned, is that, as you know, everything is public.".
In another excerpt, Trump says the job would require Manigault Newman to be flexible about where she is working, pointing out that she would have to come to New York occasionally, but could remain in Washington, if she wanted to, and might be asked to do speaking engagements for the campaign.
When asked by Melvin why she did not share the full tape for NBC to play, Manigault Newman responded that she wanted to "undergird everything" in her book.
Asked if she saw it as "hush money," Manigault Newman responded, "Absolutely."
The tape — which, according to Manigault Newman was made on Dec. 16, 2017, just days after she had left the White House — appears to corroborate claims she made in her new book about receiving an offer from the president's re-election campaign.
The tape, which was broadcast on MSNBC, was made just days after the former "Apprentice" contestant left her White House job.