MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A daily trickle of revealing internal conversations between staffers. Growing anxiety about what one might have once said. No sense of how long it will go on. Omarosa Manigault Newman’s slow release of secretly taped conversations from inside the Trump campaign and White House is having the same effect on staffers as the daily dumps from WikiLeaks had on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, when chairman John Podesta’s emails were trickled out during the final stretch of the race. ‘People are terrified,’ one former Trump aide said of the tapes. ‘Absolutely terrified.’ On Tuesday [8-14-18], the fifth day of her one-woman news cycle, Manigault Newman released a taped conversation from the 2016 campaign, in which former spokeswoman Katrina Pierson and another African-American Trump adviser, Lynne Patton, discussed the possible existence of an N-word tape…The latest reveal indicates that Manigault Newman isn’t just trying to discredit President Donald Trump, who is the subject of her book, ‘Unhinged.’ In her crusade for publicity and payback, she’s willing to embarrass and expose her former colleagues along the way. The result is the same type of psychological warfare that gripped the Clinton campaign two years ago with staffers — and anyone tangentially in their orbit — waking up every morning bracing themselves for what potentially embarrassing missive might be made public, and waiting for the onslaught to end.”
–Annie Karni, “‘People are terrified’: Trump staffers live in fear of Omarosa’s next tape,” Politico, August 14, 2018 8:45 pm