{"id":178831,"date":"2018-08-09T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/09\/pass-the-pop-fit-bring-the-popcorn-by-truck\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T23:20:00","slug":"pass-the-pop-fit-bring-the-popcorn-by-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/09\/pass-the-pop-fit-bring-the-popcorn-by-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Pop \u2026\u2026\u2026 F%$#it, Bring the Popcorn by Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Omarosa is writing a book, and while in the White House, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/omarosa-secretly-recorded-trumpand-played-the-audio-for-people-while-shopping-her-new-book-sources-say\/\">she taped conversations in the White House, including conversations with Donald Trump<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Michael Cohen, Donald Trump\u2019s former personal attorney and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/michael-cohens-to-potential-clients-stay-away-from-corey-lewandowski\">fixer<\/a>, isn\u2019t the only one with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/dead-to-each-other-team-trump-prepares-to-bury-michael-cohen-weakling-and-traitor\">secretly recorded audio<\/a> of the president.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Daily Beast that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/omarosa-was-feared-in-the-white-house-for-her-vengefulness-now-shes-out-to-prove-why\">Omarosa Manigault-Newman<\/a>, the infamous former Apprentice star who followed Trump to the White House, secretly recorded conversations with the president\u2014conversations she has since leveraged while shopping her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/omarosa-book-excerpt-trump-has-mental-decline-that-could-not-be-denied\">forthcoming \u201ctell-all\u201d book<\/a>, bluntly titled <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KFakZP\">UNHINGED<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For months, it has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/omarosa-taped-confidential-white-house-discussions-article-1.3765147\">rumored<\/a> that Manigault had clandestinely recorded on her smartphone \u201ctapes\u201d of unspecified private discussions she had in the West Wing. Audio actually does exist, and even stars Manigault\u2019s former boss.<\/p>\n<p>One person confirmed to The Daily Beast they had heard at least one of her recordings featuring President Trump. Multiple sources familiar with the \u201cOmarosa tapes\u201d described the recorded conversations between Trump and Manigault as anodyne, everyday chatter, but said they did appear to feature Trump\u2019s voice, either over the phone or in-person.<\/p>\n<p>The mere existence of such recordings represents a dramatic betrayal of trust by a onetime confidante who has since abandoned years of professed loyalty to the president and has apparently decided to profit off her years of closeness to Trump. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am way more amused by this than I should be by this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omarosa is writing a book, and while in the White House, she taped conversations in the White House, including conversations with Donald Trump: Michael Cohen, Donald Trump\u2019s former personal attorney and fixer, isn\u2019t the only one with secretly recorded audio of the president. Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Daily Beast &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-178831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}