Omarosa Manigault told NPR that hearing Donald Trump say the n-word on tape “changed everything for me.”
Yet, her own words seem to contradict what the former reality star villain turned fired White House staffer says in her new book, UNHINGED.
NPR’s Rachel Martin pointed out the discrepancy to Manigault during the interview, prompting Manigault to try to tell Martin that she hadn’t read the book.
But, as NPR reported, the very section that Manigault told Martin to read actually was the part that contradicted her claims.
Here it is, via NPR:
Incredibly, this person – who shall remain nameless – picked up the phone.
We spoke.
On this phone conversation, I was told exactly what Donald Trump said – yes, the N-word and others in a classic Trump-goes-nuclear rant – and when he’d said them.
During production he was miked, and there is definitely an audio track.
For over a year I’d been so afraid of hearing the specifics from someone who’d been in the room. Hearing the truth freed me from that fear. And only now that it’s gone, do I realize just how heavy it’s been.
In other words, Manigault said this to NPR: “Hearing it changed everything for me.”
Yet, in her book, she claims she did not hear it herself but her source told her about the conversation, writing, “On this phone conversation, I was told exactly what Donald Trump said – yes, the N-word and others in a classic Trump-goes-nuclear rant – and when he’d said them.”
The contradiction is important because in Manigault’s version of the events she was hot on the trail of Trump’s n-word tape when she was called in to speak with Chief of Staff John Kelly who told her there were “significant integrity issues” and “pretty significant legal issues that we hope won’t make it ugly for you.”
It is also not the only time the veracity of Manigault’s claims has been called into question.
Earlier today, pollster Frank Luntz called out Manigault for her flat out false claim she made about him also in the pages of her new book.
Listen above, via NPR
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