Newman says she has personally heard an audio recording of Trump on a racist diatribe against blacks, rumored to have existed throughout the closing days of the 2016 campaign. While that tape is not in her possession, she says that she recorded “plenty” of others over the course of the last two years.She even recorded her own firing in the White House Situation Room, meant to be the most secure room in all of Washington. That tape features John Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff, encouraging Newman to leave quietly. Newman’s public battle with the president once again highlights a pattern in the administration of backstabbing, of surreptitious recording and of efforts by Trump to silence former aides seeking to profit off their access. The New York Times reported that it knows of others who have taped conversations in the West Wing, and Newman claims several other officials have been pressed to sign non-disclosure agreements.The White House dismissed criticism of the president’s tweets.“This has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with the president calling out someone’s lack of integrity,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, when asked whether Trump was continuing a pattern of disparaging minorities. “The president’s an equal opportunity person who calls it like he sees it. He fights fire with fire.”When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018