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New Audio Of Lara Trump Offering Omarosa A $15,000/Month in Hush Money

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In the call, Lara Trump, who has a senior role in Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, offers Manigault Newman a job that would pay US$180,000 a year in exchange for occasionally attending meetings in New York and doing “speaking engagements”.

Lara Trump said in the phone conversation that “it sounds a little, like, obviously, that there are some things you’ve got in the back pocket to pull out”. However, she noted that if Mangault Newman joined the campaign, everything she would say about Trump would have to be “positive”.

Omarosa releases tape of US$180,000-a-year ‘hush money’ offer from Lara Trump

Maybe Trump should have given her a suitcase full of cash. She could easily make more than a measly $15k/month on a book deal. Why is the billionaire so cheap with his bribes?

I wonder how many people Trump has paid to keep quiet.

The White House paying people to keep quiet. Let's hear the Trump apologists spin this. It should be fun...

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I voted for Trump, but he deserves this for hiring such an obviously manipulative person.
 
Makes one wonder how many ghost jobs there are connected to the 2020 campaign....?

Makes more sense to have Omarosa in the tent pissing out, than the other way around.........
 
God only knows how many tapes Omarosa has. See has been able to pull up a relevant tape for every circumstance either Trump or his minions have thrown at her for a week now. You can't convince me that she knew exactly how they would come at her and "funny thing" had just the tapes on just the people that she needed. She must have tons of these things and as I said earlier, she is just going to squeeze them out like toothpaste from a tube.
 
I listened to the vid. Seems they were offering her a job on the campaign staff at 180K per year. How does that equate to "hush money"?
 
God only knows how many tapes Omarosa has. See has been able to pull up a relevant tape for every circumstance either Trump or his minions have thrown at her for a week now. You can't convince me that she knew exactly how they would come at her and "funny thing" had just the tapes on just the people that she needed. She must have tons of these things and as I said earlier, she is just going to squeeze them out like toothpaste from a tube.

I would not be surprised to find out she recorded everything that she possibly could. The memory card on her phone must have gotten a strong workout
 
I listened to the vid. Seems they were offering her a job on the campaign staff at 180K per year. How does that equate to "hush money"?

The argument she is making is that it was not actually a campaign job...it was a do whatever you want from wherever you want to do it from for 15k a month which could logically be considered hush money. If they never sent her a job title and a set of job responsibilities, it would be hard to argue that they were actually planning on calling on her to do anything.
 
I listened to the vid. Seems they were offering her a job on the campaign staff at 180K per year. How does that equate to "hush money"?

It was what is known as a sinecure--a do nothing job. It's a common form of bribery in politics. It's clear in the audio that she would asked to do nothing but give a few speeches for $180k / year after being fired from the White House. Why would you fire someone and then hire them in a do nothing job? We all know the answer. It's a bribe to silence her. More Trump hush money.

Do you deny this?
 
It was what is known as a sinecure--a do nothing job. It's a common form of bribery in politics. It's clear in the audio that she would asked to do nothing but give a few speeches for $180k / year after being fired from the White House. Why would you fire someone and then hire them in a do nothing job? We all know the answer. It's a bribe to silence her. More Trump hush money.

Do you deny this?

Yup...in fact the only "requirement" identified in the recording itself is that whatever Omarosa has in her "back pocket" had to stay in her back pocket. In other words, she had to shut up about what she knew. The very definition of hush money.
 
Trump wants Omarosa arrested..

Writing in Vanity Fair, Garbriel reports that President Donald Trump “told advisers that he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to have [Omarosa] Manigault Newman arrested, according to one Republican briefed on the conversations. (It’s unclear what law Trump believes she broke.)”

I'm sure the White House will deny the story that Trump wants Sessions to arrest her and if there are no tapes who is to say what the truth is. Maybe they should make sure that nobody in the room was recording that conversation before they deny it. LOL

With a normal president, I would be shocked at the corruption. But Trump has made it all so comical that I can only laugh. Surely, this is some form of political comedy.
 




Omarosa releases tape of US$180,000-a-year ‘hush money’ offer from Lara Trump

Maybe Trump should have given her a suitcase full of cash. She could easily make more than a measly $15k/month on a book deal. Why is the billionaire so cheap with his bribes?

I wonder how many people Trump has paid to keep quiet.

The White House paying people to keep quiet. Let's hear the Trump apologists spin this. It should be fun...

:popcorn2:


It's quite obvious she could make more with a book deal than 180k/year. Especially since she obviously knows how to manipulate. Trump would know this. Which begs the question...why WOULD Trump offer a measly 180k/year as hush money? Most people would be offering far more.

Anyways, this tape still does not support the claim of "hush money". It was nothing more than a job offer to speak and be positive about Trump. Plus, its an edited tape. I want to hear the FULL tape in order to get full context. Not an edited version.
 
It's quite obvious she could make more with a book deal than 180k/year. Especially since she obviously knows how to manipulate. Trump would know this. Which begs the question...why WOULD Trump offer a measly 180k/year as hush money? Most people would be offering far more.

Anyways, this tape still does not support the claim of "hush money". It was nothing more than a job offer to speak and be positive about Trump. Plus, its an edited tape. I want to hear the FULL tape in order to get full context. Not an edited version.

Wow, it's not a bribe because $180k --- her entire yearly salary -- for doing nothing is not a bribe? We heard the recording. It clearly says she needs to keep quiet about what she has in her "back pocket."

You've proven with your comment that you are willing to defend anything. Why don't you just come out and admit what is obvious, you don't care if Trump is corrupt? You agree with Trump's politics and if he's corrupt and dishonest, so what? That's your position.
 
God only knows how many tapes Omarosa has. See has been able to pull up a relevant tape for every circumstance either Trump or his minions have thrown at her for a week now. You can't convince me that she knew exactly how they would come at her and "funny thing" had just the tapes on just the people that she needed. She must have tons of these things and as I said earlier, she is just going to squeeze them out like toothpaste from a tube.

The Trump camp must be in Red Alert stage trying to remember everyone's conversation with Omarosa. It is actually kind of funny and almost appears to be a comedy.

That is what happens when you let in a Reality TV star into the White House and they in turn bring in another Reality TV star. This is turning out to be a White House Apprentice tv show.


What more can go wrong with these dingbats?
 
The Trump camp must be in Red Alert stage trying to remember everyone's conversation with Omarosa. It is actually kind of funny and almost appears to be a comedy.

That is what happens when you let in a Reality TV star into the White House and they in turn bring in another Reality TV star. This is turning out to be a White House Apprentice tv show.


What more can go wrong with these dingbats?

More like Real Housewives -- White House Edition. Trump is the biggest diva of them all.

The fact that Trump is still president proves that our political system is completely broken.

My concern is that if we end up with a corrupt Democrat version of Trump, Democrats will just point to Trump and excuse everything. Trump has set a new standard. It's OK to be totally corrupt if you have enough support.
 
Under the federal Wiretap Act, it is illegal for any person to secretly record an oral, telephonic, or electronic communication that other parties to the communication reasonably expect to be private. (18 U.S.C. § 2511.)

Om-a-grifter better lawyer up.
 
Under the federal Wiretap Act, it is illegal for any person to secretly record an oral, telephonic, or electronic communication that other parties to the communication reasonably expect to be private. (18 U.S.C. § 2511.)

Om-a-grifter better lawyer up.

Given your support of dishonesty, you should probably change your username to Mendacium

To get some answers, I reached out to Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas who specializes in national security and constitutional law. A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.

Sean Illing
First of all, did Omarosa commit a crime by secretly recording John Kelly in the White House Situation Room?

Stephen Vladeck
Probably not. If you try hard enough, you could make a whole lot of things violations of the Espionage Act, and someone who sat down with a copy of the Espionage Act could probably find a way to argue that Omarosa violated it, but I don’t see any way to make that argument legally plausible.
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Did Omarosa’s secret recordings break the law? I asked a legal expert
 
Under the federal Wiretap Act, it is illegal for any person to secretly record an oral, telephonic, or electronic communication that other parties to the communication reasonably expect to be private. (18 U.S.C. § 2511.)

Om-a-grifter better lawyer up.

Don't think that will play. Single consent recording is legal in DC for one thing.
 
Fact: Omarosa is smarter than Trump. :lamo
 
Show where I supported it or stop lying.

Here you go...

Show me a politician who doesn't lie. As for the MSM, they aren't independent anymore. They are a wing of the Democrat party and further its agenda daily. Outside of Fox, talk radio, the WSJ and a few other places, conservatives get no fair coverage. Look at the daily blubbering about Omarosa. The MSM devotes absurd amounts of time to her because they see another way to attack Trump. When I grew up in the 60's and 70's we knew the MSM was liberal but they had some semblance of impartiality. That is long gone.

I quoted your entire post so as to not take you out of context.

Now is the point where you try to convince us that "show me a politician who doesn't lie" is not a defense of lying.
 
Don't think that will play. Single consent recording is legal in DC for one thing.

That has to be the consent of the other person, not the one secretly recording. Sorry, she broke the law.
 
Here you go...



I quoted your entire post so as to not take you out of context.

Now is the point where you try to convince us that "show me a politician who doesn't lie" is not a defense of lying.

It isn't. It's a statement of fact. Glad I could clear that up for you.
 
No, that is a complete misread. Single consent means ONLY ONE side must consent. Does not matter which side. In single consent environments the consent of the party recording is sufficient to meet the standard.
 
God only knows how many tapes Omarosa has. See has been able to pull up a relevant tape for every circumstance either Trump or his minions have thrown at her for a week now. You can't convince me that she knew exactly how they would come at her and "funny thing" had just the tapes on just the people that she needed. She must have tons of these things and as I said earlier, she is just going to squeeze them out like toothpaste from a tube.

I am waiting for her to slip up and release classified recordings.
 
It isn't. It's a statement of fact. Glad I could clear that up for you.

It is a fact but it's a fact employed to excuse lying. What was your intent in claiming that all politicians lie? What does that have to do with Trump being caught fabricating a claim that U.S. Steel is planning to build six new plants?
 
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