A top aide to President Trump said she has a recording of a dispute with a White House reporter, and has shared parts of it with journalists.
Omarosa Manigault, a communications official at the White House, engaged in a heated exchange steps from the Oval Office last week with April Ryan, a reporter with American Urban Radio Networks. Ryan said she felt “physically intimidated” by Manigault, who she said told her that Ryan was among a handful of journalists on whom the White House was keeping “dossiers” of negative information.
Ryan said she was not aware that her run-in with Manigault last week was recorded. “I didn’t know she was taping it,” she said. “This is about her trying to smear my name. This is freaking Nixonian.”
Omarosa Manigault, a communications official at the White House, engaged in a heated exchange steps from the Oval Office last week with April Ryan, a reporter with American Urban Radio Networks. Ryan said she felt “physically intimidated” by Manigault, who she said told her that Ryan was among a handful of journalists on whom the White House was keeping “dossiers” of negative information.
Ryan said she was not aware that her run-in with Manigault last week was recorded. “I didn’t know she was taping it,” she said. “This is about her trying to smear my name. This is freaking Nixonian.”
