When a politico was once asked “where is the bottom to this administration?”, he replied, “Bottom? There is no bottom.”
Donald J. Trump continues to prove that statement each and every day.
But we’re now hitting new, NEW depths. Omarosa Manigault-Newman, protégé and longtime “friend” of Donald Trump is now bringing this entire reality-show White House into the brightness of Washington DC sunlight.
With tapes!
I don’t care whether you’re for her or against her. What cannot be denied is that she gets under Trump’s skin like no other before her.
And she apparently has the dirt.
Other diaries are more direct on these tapes. So I wanted to relay CNN’s news on how it is effecting employees at the White House.
Please note that this CNN story was published BEFORE Omarosa’s latest tape of her discussions with Katrina Pierson and others concerning the tape of trump using the N-word:
During her whirlwind book tour, former White House aide Omarosa claimed to have heard tape of President Trump using the N-word during his time on "The Apprentice."
In her new book, "Unhinged," Omarosa claims the Trump campaign was aware of the existence of the tape. She describes an October 2016 phone conversation with Lynne Patton, then-assistant to Eric Trump, spokesperson Katrina Pierson and campaign communications director Jason Miller in which they discuss how to deal with the potential fallout from its release.
“I am trying to find at least what context it was used in to help us maybe try to figure out a way to spin it," Pierson is heard saying.
Here is the CNN story
White House paranoia deepens after Omarosa tapes
Washington (CNN) — Secret tapes. Nondisclosure agreements. A lot of name calling.
On Monday, the former senior aide revealed a recording she'd made of the President phoning her on the day after she was fired. Earlier, Manigault Newman released a tape of chief of staff John Kelly doing the firing in the White House Situation Room.
Neither contained outwardly embarrassing language. But the tapes' mere existence confirmed a longstanding reality: in Trump's White House, there are few norms or expectations of decorum that cannot be shattered.
Now, aides are wondering who else might be using a recording device to capture audio from private conversations. And they are girding for Manigault Newman to release more of her tapes, which she has teased at in a string of television interviews.
…….the tapes have only deepened a pre-existing sense of paranoia among Trump staffers, according to senior administration officials, fueling an underlying suspicion that everyone inside the West Wing is out for themselves.
Several senior aides said Monday that they doubted Manigault Newman was the only person taping her conversations at work.
One administration official said Monday that there isn't a belief in the White House that Manigault Newman poses a larger national security risk after taping her conversation with Kelly in the Situation Room since she wasn't part of any classified or secret discussions of a national security nature during her time in the West Wing.
But what stands out to me is that Trump and his White House knew Omarosa was releasing a tell-all book. They responded by claiming it was “riddled with lies.”
And they probably thought, as they did with Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” that this would suffice for a response.
But Michael didn’t have tapes.
Since the surfacing of Omarosa’s tapes, as with Nixon’s White House, all hell is breaking loose.
And since Republicanism, devoid of any real substance, thrives merely on the temporary and fragile alliances between various cheats, criminals and glorified used-car salesmen, when the tapes come out and they can non longer lie, obfuscate and divert, it’s every man, woman and child for themselves.
Picture cockroaches scattering when the lights come on.
No offense intended toward cockroaches.