The Republican National Committee released a digital ad Monday aimed at impairing the credibility of former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman ahead of her book release this week, which she has teased with clandestine recordings from her time in the Trump administration.
The 45-second spot features a montage of damning soundbites where prominent journalists, former White House officials, and bipartisan figures dismissed Manigault Newman as “unethical” and questioned the truthfulness of claims contained in her book. In one passage shared with the Washington Post last week, Manigault Newman claimed she was offered a job on the president’s re-election campaign and a $15,000-a-month contract if she agreed to stay silent about her time inside the West Wing.
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Over the weekend, she released a recording of a conversation with White House chief of staff John Kelly that occurred inside the situation room when she was fired last December.
“It’s a very unprofessional thing to do. It’s extremely unethical,” former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said in one clip, referring to Manigault Newman’s secret recordings of President Trump and other colleagues.
“Some of what she’s written is unbelievable. There are basic mistakes in the text and… there was apparently a lack of fact-checking [and] a lack of editorial rigor associated with this book,” CNN host Brian Stelter said in another soundbite.
Manigault Newman served as communications director for the Office of the Public Liaison for nearly a year, earning an annual salary of $179,700. She previously oversaw African-American outreach for the Trump’s 2016 campaign.
