White House briefing about Secret Tape of Omarosa

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On Tuesday, the press secretary of White House Sarah Sanders said that she couldn’t guarantee that there aren’t any recordings of the U.S President Donald Trump using the N-word. Sanders said in response to a series of questions from Kristen Welker of NBC regarding whether Trump has ever used the racial accusation. She added that she can’t guarantee anything, but she said that President Trump addressed this question directly. She also declined to promise that American people will never hear Trump say it on a recording. She added that she acknowledged but never asked him the question herself. The White House Tuesday briefing followed the publications of a book from former Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. Sanders said that she was fired by the chief of staff John Kelly due to she was investigating rumors that Trump had used the word during tapings of The Apprentice (long-running reality show of NBC).

Manigualt Newman informed on Sunday to Chuck Todd of NBC that she has since heard a recording of Trump saying it. On Monday, the president took it on Twitter to reject the existence of such a tape. Trump and his aides have continued to wage a rhetorical war on Manigault Newman and her book, (Unhinged) an Insider’s Account of the Trump White House. On Tuesday morning, the U.S President called Manigault Newman a “dog” on Twitter, which sparked another round of accusations that he used racist language. Sanders said Trump is an equal opportunity denigrator who fights fire with fire. She said that it has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with the president calling out someone’s lack of integrity. The U.S President has said similar things about a number of individuals, certainly, that is not African-American or any other minority. Sanders said that she and other White House aides would quit their jobs if at any point we felt that the President was who some of his critics claim him to be.