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"Hearing it changed everything for me," former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman said. Manigault Newman was referring to what she calls the "N-word tape" — a long-rumored but never surfaced tape of Donald Trump on the set of  The Apprentice allegedly using the racial slur. In her interview with NPR, Manigault Newman claims to have heard the tape and heard Trump using that slur on the tape. But that's not what it says in her tell-all book,  Unhinged,  due out on Tuesday. When asked by Martin about the discrepancy during the interview, Manigault Newman insisted Martin must not have read the book (she had) and pointed to a section at the very end of it. But in that section, Manigault Newman doesn't actually describe hearing the tape. She writes of calling one of her "sources" who had a lead on the "N-word tape." Incredibly, this person - who shall remain nameless - picked up the phone. We spoke. On this phone conv...

WASHINGTON — Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former pantomime villain of Donald Trump's  Apprentice  television show before becoming a senior aide to President Trump, has resigned, the White House said Wednesday. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Newman resigned Tuesday "to pursue other opportunities," and that her departure is effective Jan. 20 — exactly one year into the Trump presidency. Newman, 43, was the most prominent African-American face of Trump's White House, working on outreach to historically black colleges and universities and racial disparities in the military justice system.  But, Manigault Newman's tenure was marred by stories about her ill-defined responsibilities and her frequent clashes with fellow White House aides. The former television personality made headlines earlier this year when a White House reporter, April Ryan, claimed a disagreement between herself and Manigault Newman nearly got physical. But it w...