Secretly taping conversations is not unknown in Trump world

But critics condemned Manigault Newman for secretly recording in the White House’s Situation Room. “So she’s very well advised to get legal counsel”.

Wright noted that the agreements would be “void” on whistleblowing obligations or matters involving potential criminal wrongdoing.

Ms Manigault-Newman writes in her tell-all book: “Taken as a whole, all of her style rebellions have served the same objective”.

Trump on Monday called Manigault Newman “wacky”, but he clearly thought highly enough of her to give her a top post at his White House following his election. It prohibited signees from disparaging Trump, his family members, or any of his businesses.

Manigault Newman says she considered the statement a “threat”. Because yesterday you told Chuck on “Meet the Press” you think he did know you were fired. “We’ve all signed them in the West Wing”.

She released the tape to NBC’s Today programme, in which Mr Trump appears to admit he only learnt of her sacking from watching the news.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to the claims on August 10.

Trump officials and a number of outside critics denounced the recordings as a serious breach of ethics and security – and White House aides anxious about what else Manigault Newman may have captured in the West Wing.

Prof O’Connor admits everything that occurs in Mr Trump’s White House should be taken with a “grain of salt”, but says it’s still important to take this latest incident seriously. [MUSIC] There were a lot of things that I observed during the previous year that I was very unhappy with.

Not so, said the president in a tweet on Monday. Nondisclosure agreements. A lot of name calling. Richard Painter, White House ethics czar for George W. Bush, said the NDAs “aren’t worth the paper they are printed on”.

Some national security experts and White House officials say Manigault Newman may have violated ethics and security rules for making the secret White House recordings. “Why did you do that?'” Manigault Newman writes.

This is the same woman who was described by Al Gore’s former office administrator as “the worst hire we ever made” – who was described by the Department of Commerce’s under secretary for technology administration as “unqualified and disruptive” and ultimately “removed” from the job, The New York Times reported. But the problem isn’t as simple as not believing her, because it only gets even more complicated when she has people like former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen tweeting that Trump didn’t eat a piece of paper. “You know what made Omarosa look legitimate?” he asked.

During the campaign and throughout her White House service, Manigault Newman was publicly supportive of the president and his policies.

“Oh, he’s just a whiny punk b–“, Trump responded, according to Manigault Newman.

Trevor Noah noticed the vicious attacks coming from Trump and the White House, too.

“There might be the perception, particularly by our enemies, that the entire White House might be compromised, and that’s kind of scary”, she said, adding: “The audience isn’t just us and Omarosa and Trump”.

But then in an NBC interview on Sunday, she claimed she had heard a tape of Trump using racist language to discuss former contestant Kwame Jackson.