Omarosa releases secret tape of Lara Trump offering her $15K/month campaign job

[mobeau69]

Source: NBC News

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 her she was fired from the administration.

The tape — which, according to Manigault Newman was made on December 16, 2017, just days after she left her White House job — appears to corroborate claims she made in her new book about receiving an offer from the president's re-election campaign. Manigault Newman wrote in her book that the job offer came with the condition of signing a non-disclosure agreement; she said she did not accept it.

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."

"Everything, everybody, positive, right?" Trump continues.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/omarosa-releases-secret-tape-lara-trump-offering-her-15k-month-n901306

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This was an obvious hush money offer.

[Freethinker65]

1. All in the family

[DownriverDem]

25. Sean Spicer

It's out there that Sean Spicer got the same deal that was offered to Omarosa. 15k per month = $180,000 per year.

[Scarsdale]

34. tRump's former bodyguard

for many years at tRump Tower, also got that deal. Keith Schiller?? They will make more by writing their books. The tRump train is losing steam, and about to pull into the station. Please, Mr. Mueller - SOON.

[Maraya1969]

47. All of these idiots who appear on shows and support Rump by saying stupid things have to be

getting paid. There is that black man with the last name of Paris and Sam Nuneberg (?) Cory Lewindowski etc.

Everyone who says nice things about him is being paid.

[Fred Sanders]

2. So Shitler fired her FOUR times....and wanted to hire her again?? Only the best!

How desperate was the racist campaign to have at least one woman of color playing along...kind of like how mentor Fox does it.

[Botany]

3. $180,000 per year hush money from campaign funds

But really what about HRC's emails?

[iluvtennis]

37. Indeed.

[C_U_L8R]

4. There needs to be a deep audit to follow the money trail

Where are all these $15K/mo checks coming from?
How are they being passed through to groups like the RNC?
What part is money laundering and what part is plain old corruption?
Law enforcement should want to know. Perhaps the IRS too.

[lagomorph777]

26. Cashflow: Putin to Oligarch to Mariia to NRA to RNC to Trump to Omarosa (or Stormy or whoever)

[Perseus]

42. Talking about Stormy

How come we don't hear about her anymore?

[lagomorph777]

43. Not much left to tell.

But she and Avenatti helped provide a window into a number of sleazy aspects of Trump's world, including Cohen. Cohen, who is now under the SDNY microscope as a result. Mission accomplished.

[at140]

5. Is offering a campaign job bribery?

to stop Omarosa from exposing more tapes or something??

[mobeau69]

7. Boris?

[at140]

13. No! not Russian lol

[C_U_L8R]

8. Bribery is up there next to High Crimes, Treason and Misdemeanors.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

23. In other words, each is as likely to be ignored as the others. NT

[Maraya1969]

48. Considering that she was working for the government and not Rump I think there is a big problem

in trying to shut her up, along with the rest of them. Maybe it goes against the 1st Amendment.

[bettyellen]

6. Same as his bodyguard... mob like "no show" jobs for everyone! Including the cabinet.

[mobeau69]

9. Same salary that she was getting while in the WH.

What a coincidence!

[Mr.Bill]

10. Maybe she took the job

and the "job" is to provide a distraction to draw people's attention away from other things. I mean she's got the press sitting up and begging like a dog and her "tapes" are nothingburgers so far.

[mobeau69]

12. An offer of hush money using campaign funds really can't be classified as a

"nothing burger" IMO.

[Mr.Bill]

15. Depends on what you want to compare it to.

I bet no one goes to jail for it. On the list of crimes committed by the Trump crime family I'd say it's about 46,378th on the list.

[Cosmocat]

14. it is "nothing burger" only in the world that exists post 45 Presidency

This, like any of about 900,000 other things would have effectively ended any other presidency.

Republicans sure as fuck would already have impeachment hearings set to roll tomorrow had this been a D POTUS.

[mobeau69]

20. BINGO!

[brush]

27. You call those tapes nothing burgers. Better re-think that.

[Mr.Bill]

28. Let us know when anyone gets charged with a crime over them. n/t

[brush]

29. We'll see soon in Nov. how many votes this bit of BRIBERY costs the repugs.

[Mr.Bill]

33. I hope you're right. n/t

[ScratchCat]

11. Every democrat

who is interviewed about this or who otherwise comments on this has to refer to it as BRIBERY from this point forward. Just like we need to say conspiracy instead of collusion, this is plain and simple a bribe to keep quiet.

[Achilleaze]

16. "Oh God, no." - the endless republican family-values sleaze is revolting

With their ceasless mendacity, cupidity, treason, grabby-grubby grifting, and pitiless pettiness, republicans make the SleazeBall Cellar of Hell look like a safe space.

[Honeycombe8]

17. It was another "catch & kill" effort, like the other ones to Trump's liaisons.

They would have paid her, but would not have required any work from her. It was an excuse for a payoff...a way to keep her quiet.

They should have thought of this before they fired her.

[yallerdawg]

18. She's going after his NEXT campaign!

Shit!

My money ain't on the bear!

[Snellius]

19. $15K a month NOT to do something. Nice gig.

[Cracklin Charlie]

22. So, maybe someone should look into how many campaign employees...

Are hush money recipients. I think the campaign was begun immediately after inauguration in order to hide hush money payees from nosy eyes. Pretty sure he can spend that however he wants.

[mopinko]

45. this

lets take a look at the inauguration fund while we are at it.

[DeminPennswoods]

24. "Featherbedding" is the term I learned

in labor economics class.

[Snellius]

31. Interesting origin of the term "featherbedding":

According to Wikipedia:

The term "featherbedding" originally referred to any person who is pampered, coddled, or excessively rewarded. The term originated in the use of feathers to fill mattresses in beds, providing for more comfort. The modern use of the term in the labor relations setting began in the United States railroad industry, which used feathered mattresses in sleeping cars. Railway labor unions, confronted with changing technology which led to widespread unemployment, sought to preserve jobs by negotiating contracts which required employers to compensate workers to do little or no work or which required complex and time-consuming work rules so as to generate a full day's work for an employee who otherwise would not remain employed.

[jayschool2013]

30. I'm surprised they didn't use their favorite technique

This is how the Trump Crime Family usually distances itself from former employees:

[Pepsidog]

32. Trump women as shady as the men. All scumbag grifters who belong in prison

[SunSeeker]

35. Of course. What other kind of woman would hitch herself to a Trump?

[Texin]

36. Isn't this akin to hush money? A kind of "keep you mouth shut" allowance for no work?

Or were they seriously going to keep her on the payroll?

[BigmanPigman]

38. I like Pelosi pushing "corruption in the W House"

as a campiagn issue for Dems. They really need to push this big time...tell the GOP voters that the "swamp" has never been swampier.

[Solly Mack]

39. The Snopes family goes to Washington

Faulkner's The Snopes family - (The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion)

Snopes are the kind of people who would burn down all the barns in town because somebody crossed them.

Another Snopes would take the last dollar you have to your name, claim they never had it, and then buy penny candy for your starving children so as to appear generous.

[world wide wally]

40. No wonder Stormy got pissed off..

She was only offered a onetime payment of $130,000

[IronLionZion]

41. I hope Mueller punishes these people so hard

that crooks like this never even think about running for president ever again

[TheBlackAdder]

44. That sounds like some sort of campagin regulation was violated.

[Scurrilous]

46. K&R