Omarosa Newman Manigault used a personal phone to tape her conversations with fellow White House officials, according to a report Sunday.
A source told Axios that she often taped discussions with colleagues and all of her talks with members of the Trump family.
In order to record conversations she had on her government-issued phone, Newman Manigault would set it to speaker mode and record it on her personal device. Other times she would set her phone to record and place it in her purse before entering meetings.
Manigault Newman “wouldn’t write me on email or text me — many [conversations] happened on Facebook Messenger (she didn’t want what happened to Hillary Clinton and her emails to happen to her),” the source told Axios.
It wasn’t until January, a month after she was fired from the White House, that chief of staff John Kelly banned personal devices in the West Wing on weekdays during certain hours.
In recent weeks, amid a media blitz for her recently released book, Unhinged, Manigault Newman has released three recordings, including one of Kelly firing her, and has threatened to release more.
