Omarosa Manigault Newman said Tuesday she does not believe she violated a nondisclosure agreement by releasing a tell-all book about her time in the Trump White House, hours after the president’s campaign team filed a claim against her with a private arbitrator.
“I don’t believe that I violated it, but I’m going to leave that to the lawyers to sort that out,” Manigault Newman told MSNBC.
“It’s interesting that he’s trying to silence me. What is he afraid of?” she added of Trump.
The president’s re-election campaign announced the legal move earlier Tuesday, shortly after Manigault Newman provided CBS News with a recording from the 2016 election in which she and two other campaign hands can be heard discussing whether Trump used the N-word during a taping of “The Apprentice.”
President Trump has denied using the word, and claimed in a tweet Monday night that the show’s producer Mark Burnett informed him no such tape exists.
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Manigault Newman told MSNBC she plans to release more recordings from her time inside the Trump campaign and the West Wing, though she declined to confirm if any contain audio of the president.
“I think [Trump] should be afraid of being exposed as the misogynist, the racist, the bigot he is,” she said, claiming the president and his team have also been “hiding things from the American people” during the course of the special counsel investigation into Russian election meddling.
A lawyer for Manigault Newman told the Washington Examiner Tuesday afternoon they had yet to receive an arbitration action from the Trump campaign “and don’t have a comment on it.”
Manigault Newman’s new book, “Unhinged,” debuted Aug. 14.
