'Their pattern': Trump White House aide Omarosa says she's 'seen him pay off people'
Former President Donald Trump's alleged hush payment scheme to adult film star Stormy Daniels, now the focus of the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan, is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the Trump world's efforts to buy silence, former White House aide and "The Apprentice" participant Omarosa Manigault Newman told MSNBC's Joy Reid.
This comes after Tuesday's dramatic testimony from Daniels, who went into salacious detail about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump and how victimized she felt by the situation.
"The reality is — and I've said this in other interviews — he's running against what would be the first woman president, also has to position himself to win women voters, but his whole history, the leering at his daughter, the gross things he said about women and Miss USA pageants, etcetera," said Reid. "Was there a sense that they had to shut these women down, and does it ring true to you what he's being charged with, that he was willing to pay and reimburse Michael Cohen for him to pay to keep Stormy Daniels from being added to the list?"
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"Well, Joy, I want to take you back a little bit to 2006," said Manigault Newman. "Something that I think Stormy Daniels referenced. When he was promising her that she could be on 'The Apprentice,' she was talking about 'Celebrity Apprentice.' I actually appeared on that season, the first season of the 'Celebrity Apprentice.' And there was actually another Playmate that actually ended up on the cast of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' I don't know if you recall that, but Tiffany Fallon was selected for the cast instead of, I believe ... Stormy Daniels or these other women that were lobbying to be in that spot. Donald was successful in getting one of his paramours on our season ... I've seen him pay off people. I've seen him try to pay off folks to try to silence them. I don't know if you recall, they tried to do the same thing to me."
"I do," confirmed Reid.
"$20,000 a month or something like that, for me to work on the campaign for several years so that I wouldn't share what I actually shared in my book," continued Manigault Newman. "So this is kind of their pattern. This is par for the course in Donald Trump's world."
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