Katrina Pierson Responds to Omarosa: I Humored Her About Trump N-Word Tape

There are tapes of people talking about tapes and it’s causing all kinds of drama.

ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
08.14.18 10:31 AM ET

Omarosa week may never die and it’s causing mass hysteria in Trumpland.

As The Daily Beast first reported last week, former senior Trump administration official and former senior Apprentice villain Omarosa Manigault-Newman had secretly recorded President Donald Trump and has played the audio for others. She leveraged these conversations and secret audio while shopping her forthcoming supposedly “tell-all” book Unhinged.

This week, Manigault-Newman made clear that she has recordings of her conversations with several other high-ranking figures in the Trump orbit—including White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, senior adviser on the Trump re-election campaign Katrina Pierson, and HUD official Lynne Patton—by making the audio available to the media.

The most recent clip was played Tuesday morning, when CBS News revealed a recording of what appears to be an October 2016 phone conversation among Manigault-Newman, Patton (then an assistant to Eric Trump), and Pierson. In the recording—which was not independently verified—the group is heard talking about how they would handle the situation if a long-rumored tape of Trump saying the word “n----r” actually existed and if it were ever made public.

“I am trying to find at least what context it was used in to help us maybe try to figure out a way to spin it,” Pierson says on the audio CBS News obtained.

Patton then says, “I [told Trump], ‘Well, sir, can you think of any time where this happened?’ And he said, ‘no’… He goes, ‘How do you think I should handle it?’ and I told him exactly what you just said, Omarosa, which is well, it depends on what scenario you are talking about. And he said, ‘Well, why don’t you just go ahead and put it to bed.’”

In the audio recording, Pierson then replies, “No, he said it. He is embarrassed.”

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