Omarosa may have taped conversations inside the Trump White House and now fears being pulled into the Mueller investigation.

Courtesy of the New York Daily News: 

Manigault-Newman has met with Harvey Weinstein’s former attorney Lisa Bloom and former Bill Cosby lawyer Monique Pressley, among others.

It is not immediately clear why the former “Apprentice” star is seeking legal help, but those with knowledge of her unceremonious removal from the White House say she is “very concerned” that trouble is on the horizon. 

The 43-year-old apparently believes she may become a fixture in Mueller’s investigation into possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia’s election meddling.

“Everyone knows Omarosa loves to record people and meetings using the voice notes app on her iPhone,” a source disclosed. “Don’t be surprised if she has secret audio files on everyone in that White House, past and present staffers included.” 

A recent ban on personal cell phones in the West Wing, which followed the release of Michael Wolff’s explosive White House tell-all was related to Manigault-Newman’s track record of recording conversations, the source added. 

The White House of course poo poos the idea that Omarosa may have recorded conversations, but let's face it they deny essentially everything these days.

By the way I actually think my headline is misleading (I wrote it to reflect the reporting from the New York Daily News.), as I am positive that Omarosa would LOVE to be subpoenaed by the Mueller team and get all of that sweet sweet press attention.

As for whether or not she recorded conversations in the White House, I certainly think it is possible, but it is also possible that this was a story that she planted herself in order to drum up interest in her book.

Donald Trump fires Omarosa. Update!

Courtesy of the New York Daily News:  

The White House said Wednesday that Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former “The Apprentice” contestant turned political neophyte, is leaving the administration next month. 

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told The Associated Press that Manigault Newman’s resignation is effective Jan. 20, one year since Trump’s inauguration. 

Manigault Newman’s departure was rumored back in September following a number of controversies. 

A month earlier, the 43-year-old endured a chaotic trip to the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in New Orleans. 

Her appearance at an event during the convention was described as confrontational and hectic as she aggressively insisted reporters “Ask me a question about me,” while sidestepping inquiries about the administration. 

The two-time “Apprentice” villain turned senior White House official also ruffled feathers when she reportedly brought members of her 39-person bridal party to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for an extended wedding photo shoot. 

The unannounced April visit to the White House in her bridal attire caught fellow senior aides and some security officials by surprise.

"Ask me about me." That right there was probably enough to get a megalomaniac like Trump to fire her.

Omarosa is just one more of Trump's closest confidants who is now being ushered out the door.

That leaves this unhinged and volatile lunatic even more isolated and alone than before.

I certainly hope that somebody is keeping those nuclear codes well hidden.

Update: Well this is delicious.

H/T to Raw Story.

Chief of Staff blocks Omarosa and other toxic advisers from attending "serious" White House meetings.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

President Trump's chief of staff John Kelly is reportedly freezing out aides to the president he deems unfit for serious meetings, including aide Omarosa Manigault. 

The New York Times reported on Friday that Kelly has created a "no-fly list" of aides who previously wandered into meetings unannounced and uninvited but who no longer have that power. Manigault, the Times reported, is chief among them. 

In charge of this list is Kirstjen Nielsen, Kelly's longtime aide, who was recently appointed as an assistant to the president and his principal deputy. Nielsen is described in the article as "brusque" and "no-nonsense," and in charge of wrangling aides in Trump's outer circle.

Kelly is not fucking around, that's is for damn sure.

Still it is hard to imagine that Trump is going to let him micromanage his life like this for much longer.

Trump LOVES the fact that he is surrounded by internet trolls come to life who share stories from Info Wars with him and shit talk his enemies.

That is his life blood.

I just don't see his Kelly guy lasting to even the end of this year.

And when he is gone, Whoa Nelly is the shit going to hit the proverbial fan. 

New White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, has identified "patient zero" in who triggers Trump the most, Omarosa.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:

Newly minted White House chief of staff John Kelly has sought to put a dent in the influence of one of President Donald Trump’s most famous advisers: Omarosa Manigault. 

The former Apprentice co-star—who currently serves as the communications director for the Office of Public Liaison—has seen her direct access to the president limited since Kelly took the top White House job in late July, sources tell The Daily Beast. In particular, Kelly has taken steps to prevent her and other senior staffers from getting unvetted news articles on the president’s Resolute desk—a key method for influencing the president’s thinking, and one that Manigualt used to rile up Trump about internal White House drama. 

Multiple sources in and outside the Trump White House told The Daily Beast that, until recently, it was common practice for aides to slide into the Oval Office and distract and infuriate the president with pieces of negative news coverage. Manigault, they say, was one of the worst offenders. 

“When Gen. Kelly is talking about clamping down on access to the Oval, she’s patient zero,” a source close to the Trump administration said.

Apparently Kelly is also screening the materials that make it onto Trump's desk, and has rejected items from the Daily Caller, Breitbart, or Info Wars, which means that Trump's hunger for conspiracy theories is left un-satiated.

Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, and confidant, is also leaving the White House most likely due to Kelly's influence.

Courtesy of CNN: 

President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller has told people he intends to leave the White House, three sources familiar with the decision told CNN. 

Schiller has told associates within the last two weeks that he plans to leave the White House at the end of September or in early October, the sources said. Schiller has told people his primary reason for leaving was financial, the sources said. Schiller earns a $165,000 annual salary at the White House -- a downgrade from his annual earnings before he followed Trump to the White House. 

Schiller's planned departure comes just over a month after Kelly became chief of staff with the mission of instilling new order inside Trump's often chaotic White House. 

This removes key members of Trump's inner circle, and follows the removal of Steve Bannon, who also fed Trump's baser instincts.

But how long can all of this really last?

Courtesy of the New York Times: 

Like every other new sheriff in town Mr. Trump has hired to turn things around at the White House or in his presidential campaign, Mr. Kelly has gradually diminished in his appeal to his restless boss. What is different this time is that Mr. Trump, mired in self-destructive controversies and record-low approval ratings, needs Mr. Kelly more than Mr. Kelly needs him. Unlike many of the men and women eager to work for Mr. Trump over the years, the new chief of staff signed on reluctantly, more out of a sense of duty than a need for affirmation, personal enrichment or fame. 

“It is inevitable that a guy who will not be contained and does not want to be handled or managed was going to rebel against the latest manager who wanted to control him,” said Roger Stone, the longtime Trump adviser, who believes Mr. Kelly represents a kind of management coup by “the triumvirate” of two powerful retired generals — Mr. Kelly and Jim Mattis, the defense secretary — and one general who is still in the Army, the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster. 

“Ultimately Donald Trump is his own man, and he’s going to resist all the control and regimented systems Kelly is trying to impose,” Mr. Stone said.

I can only imagine what happens once Trump tires of being handled and fires Kelly.

And unfettered Donald Trump is a batshit crazy Donald Trump and that may be too much Donald Trump for even die hard Trump supporters to stomach.

Omarosa, Trump's communications official, is now stating that her boss has collected dossiers on several journalists full of "negative information." Can you say suppression of the First Amendment?

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Conflict and controversy seem to follow Omarosa Manigault, who stirred up plenty of both as a reality-TV star and a longtime associate of President Trump. 

Manigault, who is now a communications official in the Trump administration, got into a heated argument with a White House reporter just steps from the Oval Office last week, according to witnesses. The reporter, April Ryan, said Manigault “physically intimidated” her in a manner that could have warranted intervention by the Secret Service. 

Ryan also said Manigault made verbal threats, including the assertion that Ryan was among several journalists on whom Trump officials had collected “dossiers” of negative information. 

Manigault, a onetime friend of Ryan’s, declined to address Ryan’s accusations on the record, offering only this emailed statement: “My comment: Fake news!” She did not specify what she considered false. 

This account follows a Politico report that state sponsored hackers, ie Russians, have been targeting journalists: 

Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine said he received several messages from Google warning him about an attack from a government-backed hacker starting shortly after the election. He said the most recent warning came two to three weeks ago. 

Julia Ioffe, who recently started at The Atlantic and has covered Russia for years, said she got warnings as recently as two weeks ago. 

Ezra Klein, the founder of Vox, said he had received the warning as recently as a few days back. CNN senior media reporter Brian Stelter said he has been getting the alerts for the past few months. 

Other journalists who confirmed they’ve recently gotten the warnings include New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger, Times columnist Paul Krugman and Yahoo Washington bureau chief Garance Franke-Ruta. 

GQ special contributor Keith Olbermann said the warnings started a few weeks after the election, and he received the most recent alert earlier this week, a “big bright red bar” across the top of his Gmail. Some of the reporters say they are tightening up their email security to try to prevent the hackers from getting in.

There are other journalists listed in the Politico article, but you get the drift.

Most, if not all, of these reporters are also convinced that the attempts are coming from Russia.

So now that Putin has helped Trump get elected he is going to use the same technique to protect him from criticism by America's free press.

Is there ANYBODY still not convinced that Donald Trump is a tool of Russia?