“TAPING CONVERSATIONS” NOW REQUIRED IN THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE

…This woman apparently has a treasure trove of taped White House conversations.

It will be many years before anyone will trust the statements coming from the White House

How would you feel about working in an environment where so many false statements were made, that you needed to tape every conversations with fellow workers just to protect yourself?

The following situation has been substantiated by more than one anonymous source in the Trump White House.  That being that when Sarah Huckabee Sanders meets with the president before her press meetings, she has White House lawyers present to figure out how to present some of the president’s false statements.  (Of course this is anonymous, as the leakers want to keep their jobs.)

The Trump White House has lost so much credibility that if you work there, you now need to secretly record your conversations to confirm what was actually said, especially if you have any need to talk to the media.

Because so many in the White House, including the President of the United States telling so many falsehoods, the only way if you need to prove what was said, is if you have a recording of the conversation.  It’s a pretty sad situation, and it will take many years to once again have any confidence in anything that comes out of the White House.

As an example of this issue, the fired White House employee, Omarosa Manigault Newman, previously had zero credibility after her 17 years of working with Donald Trump.  So, when she decided that she was going to make some money by writing a book about the real Donald Trump, she was smart enough to realize she had been part of all the on-going lying coming out of the White House.  Therefore, she rightly decided after the election, that the only way to get back any of her credibility, she would need both written and recorded records and conversations

Therefore, Omarosa started recording various White House conversations, and she has also collected documents, such as the non-disclosure agreements that she was asked to sign about not discussing anything, after she was fired.

Now, don’t get me wrong.  I am not a big fan of Omarosa.  But she is a good example of just how bad the environment is within our current president’s residence.

It's pretty bad when you need the White House lawyers to figure out how you should lie to the people about what’s going on in that big house owned by the American public……

I think it’s ironic that Omarosa initially achieved her single-name fame as an on-going contestant on Trump’s show “The Apprentice”.  In that reality TV program, she performed her villainy by using the same lying, cheating, and backstabbing.  She basically advanced her own interests by sabotaging her rivals.

Trump evidently found all of this admirable, because he agreed to bring her into his administration as a top-level adviser despite her utter lack of experience and qualifications. (Like everyone else he picked.)  They really did deserve each other.

Even now, with her tapes, it is still hard to take Omarosa’s word for anything that isn't backed up. But she does have those tapes, and they do offer vivid proof that Donald Trump’s White House is part clown show, with a nest of vipers.

It is no surprise that she wrote a tell-all book after she was fired. It’s shocking, however, that she managed to secretly record her dismissal that took place in the White House Situation Room.  This room is meant to be a super-secure bunker where the nation’s most closely guarded secrets can safely be discussed.

Part of Omarosa’s recording of that meeting was aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”  Kelly is heard making what sounds very much like a real threat to Omarosa: “I think it’s important to understand that if we make this a friendly departure, we can all be, you know, we can look at your time here in the White House as a year of service to the nation. And then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation.”

Why does that not sound shocking for what has apparently has become “status-quo” for what goes on regularly in the Trump White House?

But it doesn’t stop there.  As with others that have left the White House, Omarosa also received a very generous offer. She could receive $15,000 a month for performing various duties for Trump’s reelection campaign. But she would have to sign a nondisclosure and non-disparagement agreement pledging not to say negative things about President Trump, Vice President Pence or their family members.

Omarosa declined the offer, but she kept those documents she was asked to sign and she showed them to The Post last week.   Because she refused to sign the documents and accept the $15,000 a month, the White House has refused to return the 5 boxes of her personal effects from her White House office.

Omarosa has revealed a recording of a phone call she received from Trump the day after she was fired. “Omarosa, what’s going on?” Trump is heard to ask. “I just saw on the news that you’re thinking about leaving. What happened?”  When she tells him she was asked to leave, Trump then claims ignorance. “Nobody even told me about it,” he says. “You know they run a big operation, but I didn’t know it. I didn’t know that. Goddammit. I don’t love you leaving at all.”

I personally agree with Omarosa that she believes that Trump told his Chief-of-Staff to fire her, so Trump could keep his hands clean.  So yes, I believe that Trump once again lied about not knowing about the firing of Omarosa.  (I doubt that anything goes on in the White House that Trump doesn't know about.)

But Omarosa actually claims to have realized only recently that Trump is a “racist, misogynist and bigot.” Yet this same woman has heard Trump’s attacks against Latino immigrants, and she still went to work for his campaign. She was aware that after the Central Park Five, young black and Latino men years ago, due to DNA evidence, were all found innocent of attacking a white woman.  But Trump still wanted them imprisoned. Omarosa had heard his Access Hollywood rant about how he sexually assaulted women, and she still took a job in his administration. She also heard his many appeals to white racial grievance and still vigorously defended him, even after the Charlottesville debacle.

                            

Therefore, I’m not inclined to believe anything she claims without documentary evidence to back it up. But her tapes and the documents have not been disputed.

Omarosa may not have obtained them honorably, but the old saying is true: “There is no honor among thieves.”

The White House is now trying to go after Omarosa through legal efforts for keeping the many other tapes she says she has from being released.  Because they were recorded in the White House, they will probably use “National Security” excuse as the issue.  But the tapes could then be reviewed by a NSA, FBI or a Pentagon official to see if any conversations were in violation of any national security issues.

However, with this administration, we don’t know yet what else might be in those conversations with Trump that his lawyer Michael Cohen taped. In addition, we don’t know how many other recordings Omarosa might have made. And we definitely don’t know who else in the White House might have been keeping their own unauthorized tapes or records of conversations and events.

But we do now know why the people in Trump’s world feel they need such insurance coverage: Dishonor, disloyalty, all the liars, and the den of thieves, is at the top of the pile.

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