Official Statement on Omarosa Manigault-Newman
My name is Lynne Patton and I am a senior official in the Trump Administration.
White House leadership, both past and present, can confirm that I was the closest confidante & friend to Ms. Manigault-Newman during her tenure at the White House, Transition and Campaign – texting and speaking multiple times per day.
To that end, Omarosa attempted to contact me just two days ago, but I refused to accept her call.
Like Ms. Manigault-Newman, I have also known and worked for both the President and his family for over a decade and am confident that they would collectively confirm that I know them far better than she.
To be clear, at no time did I participate in a conference call with Katrina Pierson advising me, Jason Miller and Omarosa Manigault-Newman that Frank Luntz had heard President Donald J. Trump use a derogatory racial term – a claim that Luntz himself has also denied.
What I can confirm is the following:
On December 12, 2017, at approximately 11:30PM (EST) – a date I now know to be the evening Omarosa was relieved of her official duties by General Kelly – I received a telephone call from her informing me that she had personally heard a second-hand recording of President Trump using the “N-word” in a derogatory fashion.
She proceeded to tell me the full name of the individual who played this second-hand tape for her, from whom the primary audio tape had originated, as well as the specific context of the President’s usage of this term and to whom the derogatory term was allegedly directed.
Omarosa also proceeded to inform me that she had officially submitted her resignation to General Kelly and that I should promptly do the same before the audio surfaced.
The next morning, I immediately notified senior communications officials and a Trump family member of the same, only to discover the true nature of her departure was termination.
Today, the individual who Omarosa confirmed to me as having played the second-hand audio recording to her last year confirmed that they have no tape, never had possession of a tape, never claimed to have possession of a tape and never played such a tape for Ms. Manigault-Newman.
Tonight, on the MSNBC program, Hardball, Omarosa revealed to the general public what she had told me last December: That former Apprentice producer, Bill Pruitt, was the original source of the “N-word” tape.
Bill Pruitt is a mutual friend.
I just spoke to Bill Pruitt tonight before releasing this statement.
He confirmed to me (before Hardball had even gone off the air) that he does NOT have an audio tape of President Trump using the “N-word” and has NEVER had an audio tape of President Trump using the “N-word.” Period.
Suffice it to say that the past few weeks have been wrought with disappointment, immense sadness, anger and outright disgust.
Based upon her conflicting accounts and the newfound information revealed in my statement, it should be abundantly clear to everyone that not only is her book a complete work of fiction, but that the existence of this elusive “N-word” tape is a figment of her imagination and merely a destructive tool of manipulation applied only when it best serves her interests.
Like countless other minorities and women, the President has given me the opportunity of a lifetime to rise up through the ranks of The Trump Organization and now proudly serve this country.
Therefore, unless directed otherwise, this will be my only statement on this baseless accusation and imaginary audio tape, as falsely claimed by a former friend.
My primary and sole focus remains the low-income and public housing residents of New York & New Jersey, as the President would expect it to be — and as the President has hired me to do.
Thank you. 🇺🇸 #MAGA
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Deranged Omarosa
Perzactly.
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Didnt she sign more than 1 nda? One in campaign and one in WH? And recording in the WH like she did is supposedly a crime. So is she not going to be in significant trouble?
Also, if she is the example and precedent for recirding in WH and POTUS with outrage on left and right, what about being recorded by O administration?
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Odd that no one has brought up that Omarosa used the “n word” accusation before, in 2004. The citation is actually on that bastion of liberals, Wikipedia.
This woman, Omarosa, is obviously mentally ill. Does not take a pscho-logist to recognize that. Would that someone do an intervention and haul her off to a clinic or something. Odd that Pres Trump never noticed. Or, perhaps more accurately, did not want to believe.
Thx 4 for statement, Stella. Would not have seen it otherwise.
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I don’t think Omarosa is mentally ill as definable in the DSM-V. I really don’t. I think she is an egotistical, elitist, opportunist, self centered, horrible person.
I believe that she has no idea of what our country is about or what the Office of the Presidency is about, I think she lives in her own universe and thinks that life is a reality TV show. When it all came crashing down around her she suffered severe delirium tremens from the immediate loss of power and stature.
I don’t know anything about her husband other than that he is a pastor. Whether he is a pastor serving himself so that he can enjoy the spoils of celebrity pastor-hood or whether he is a true believer I have no idea. He married Omarosa so 😏.
I whole heartedly believe Omarosa is in bed with Clinton/Obama/Ryan.
Filthy vile degenerate people.
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Gee, I thought that was a given back the first time she was on The Apprentice.
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Donald Trump had given many people from all walks of life opportunities and chances and its up to them where they take it…
A homeless woman got into one of Trump’s hotels in the City and into one of the rooms
When discovered by staff they were going to throw her out
Trump gave her that hotel room free to live in along with 3 meals a day fresh cut flowers weekly and cleaning room service
GOD BLESS the USA
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“Suffice it to say that the past few weeks have been wrought with disappointment, immense sadness, anger and outright disgust.”
So another public person who is somewhat at the center of things is announcing their awareness of reality.
This is another reflection, in a slightly different context, of the #walkaway movement: individuals who finally decide that they cannot continue to pretend that the disconnect between reality and lying manipulators is tolerable for them.
Apparently there is a point at which even the most “inside” insider sees that if they don’t break ranks and speak up, it will impact their personal reputation, not only in terms of future opportunities but also in terms of present relationships with others in their circle.
I will not give black people or white people or Mexican people or office holders or garbage collectors a pass when it comes to lying and manipulating. I never have, but my perspective has been considered bigoted by some in recent years.
There are some people in each of those groupswho have made a living off being given a pass. A very, very nice living.
It’s encouraging that their disintegration and insanity is becoming more apparent, to the point where those who have felt compelled to hold steady in silent participation are finally saying, “No. No more.”
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I think this goes beyond that. This woman was compelled to defend herself, calling out the lies that Omarosa had told that involved her and at least one close friend.
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You’re right.
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We all know liars. Almost everyone lies, and sometimes people lie more than they tell they truth. It used to be that it was rare for someone to tell a lie involving you when you knew it was flat out a lie. I worked with a man like that once, and it constantly amazed me that he expected me to participate in his very self serving lies. He never stopped doing it, even though I never covered for him.
I guess it isn’t so uncommon to find people who lie like that now.
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Piers Morgan Says Omarosa Manigault Offered Him Sex to Win ‘Celebrity Apprentice’
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/piers-morgan-omarosa-offered-me-sex-to-win-celebrity-apprentice/
“Omarosa sidled up to me at the New York Mercantile Exchange and said, quite seriously: ‘Piers, do you want a showmance?’ ‘A what?’ I replied. ‘A showmance. You know, a romance on the show — we get it on together. Happens all the time on Apprentice. Everyone has sex together. Then we can make lots of money out of it,’” Morgan wrote. “I stared at her grasping, ferociously ambitious little eyes, and laughed: ‘You must be joking, you deluded woman.’ She didn’t take it well. ‘What are you? Gay?’”
“Because I’d rejected her revolting sex plot, she decided the best line of attack was to repeatedly question my sexuality in the most crude and offensive manner imaginable,” Morgan’s op-ed continued. “On another occasion, in front of boxing champion Lennox Lewis, she said: ‘Hey Piers, I hear you got caught sucking a gay waiter’s c—k in a hotel pool?’ This was a lie. I’m not gay and she hadn’t heard that about me. She’d just made it up to smear me and to provoke me into a confrontation.”
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She is a deranged woman with ferociously ambitious little eyes.
What a a dandy first sentence has been handed to us.
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