Omarosa Releases Tape She Made of President Trump Reacting to her Dismissal

Former Apprentice contestant turned White House aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman, released a second audio recording on Monday that appeared to show President Donald Trump having no idea Newman had been let go by his Chief of Staff, John Kelly. 

"Omarosa? What's going on? I just saw on the news that you're thinking about leaving? What happened?" Trump can be heard saying on the tape provided to NBC's "Today." 

"General Kelly - General Kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave," Omarosa said.

"No ... I, I, nobody even told me about it," the President says. 

Newman reacts to the president's statement, "Wow."

"You know they run a big operation but I didn't know it," Trump continues on in the recording. "I didn't know that. G**damn it. I don't love you leaving at all."

NBC News says they do not know what was said before, or after the exchange. 

President Donald Trump responded to the tape Monday morning tweeting:

"Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her but heard really bad things. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work. When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me - until she got fired!"

The tape follows one Newman played on "Meet the Press" Sunday that she says she recorded while in a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House with Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly. In it, Kelly can  be heard talking about Newman's reputation and about some "pretty serious integrity violations" against her. 

“If we make this a friendly departure we can all ... look at your time here in the White House as a year of service to the nation without any difficulty in the future relative to your reputation,” Kelly can be heard saying on the tape.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a statement on Friday calling Newman a "disgruntled" former employee. 

"Instead of telling the truth about all the good President Trump and his administration are doing to make America safe and prosperous, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations," Sanders said. 

"It’s sad that a disgruntled former White House employee is trying to profit off these false attacks, and even worse that the media would now give her a platform, after not taking her seriously when she had only positive things to say about the President during her time in the administration,” she added.

Newman told Chuck Todd on Sunday that if she didn't have those recordings, no one "in America would believe me." 

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