Irish Daily Mirror

TRUMP ‘IS ON TAPE USING THE N-WORD’

- BY CHRISTOPHE­R BUCKIN US Editor chris.bucktin@mirror.co.uk

DONALD Trump is a racist who repeatedly used the N-word during filming for The Apprentice USA, a former contestant and aide claims.

Omarosa Manigault Newman alleged the ex-reality TV show host was caught on tape using the racial slur “multiple times” off-camera.

It follows claims during Trump’s presidenti­al campaign that outtakes featured him using offensive words.

Ms Manigault Newman, who was the most prominent African-american in his White House, claimed three people told her the tape exists.

Speaking of her departure as his aide, she adds in a book: “My certainty about the N-word tape and his frequent uses of that word were the top of a high mountain of truly appalling things I’d experience­d with him.” Trump hosted the show from 2004 to 2015 before running for President.

Ms Manigault Newman starred on The Apprentice USA in 2004 and 2008. She was later Trump’s communicat­ions chief for the Office of Public Liaison. She claims in her book Unhinged that in late

ON CLAIMS

2016 Trump’s team held a crisis call over how to respond if the tape came out.

A show source then allegedly told her they were in possession of it. By this time Trump had been sworn in as president.

Ms Manigault Newman writes: “By that point, three sources in three separate conversati­ons had described the contents of this tape. They all told me that President Trump said [the N-word] multiple times throughout taping during off-camera outtakes.”

The former aide, who left her job at the end of 2017, claims the White House tried to buy her silence. In her book she says that within 24 hours of her departure, Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara emailed her a contract to work on the president’s re-election campaign with a “harsh and strict” non-disclosure agreement. MGM, which owns the Apprentice rights, cannot release footage due to “legal requiremen­ts”.

The White House did not comment. In February a spokesman said Ms Manigault Newman had been “let go”, adding: “She had limited contact with the president.” ■ Unhinged by Omarosa Manigault Newman is out on Tuesday.

The tape was the top of a high mountain of appalling things

OMAROSA MANIGAULT NEWMAN

 ??  ?? AIDE Omarosa & Trump in 2017
AIDE Omarosa & Trump in 2017

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from Ireland