According to Omarosa Manigault Newman, Lara Trump tried to work some of her father-in-law’s “art of the deal” magic on her. However, Omarosa had learned some Trumpian tricks herself when she appeared alongside Donald Trump on “The Apprentice.” Donald later hired her to be the director of African American outreach for his campaign, and when he won the presidency, she became his communications director for the Office of Public Liaison. When Omarosa lost that gig, it wasn’t her former reality show boss who told her “You’re fired!” again, but former White House chief of staff John Kelly. Apparently, Donald later realized that cutting Omarosa loose was a bad business move, as Lara reached out to her with a new job offer to work for his reelection campaign.
Omarosa secretly recorded a conversation that she and Lara had about the gig and the $15,000 a month she would get paid for it. Speaking to MSNBC, Omarosa said that it amounted to “hush money,” and she dropped the receipts to back up this characterization. In the recording, Lara says, “It sounds a little like, obviously, that there are some things you’ve got in the back pocket to pull out. Clearly, if you come on board the campaign, like, we can’t have, we got to … ‘Everything, everybody, positive,’ right?” In response to Omarosa sharing the conversation with the media, Lara admitted no wrongdoing and instead released a statement (per The Hill) accusing Omarosa of betraying her.
