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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReporter was taped by White House in heated exchange...
A top aide to President Trump said she has a recording of a dispute with a White House reporter, and has shared parts of it with journalists.
Omarosa Manigault, a communications official at the White House, engaged in a heated exchange steps from the Oval Office last week with April Ryan, a reporter with American Urban Radio Networks. Ryan said she felt physically intimidated by Manigault, who she said told her that Ryan was among a handful of journalists on whom the White House was keeping dossiers of negative information.
Ryan said she was not aware that her run-in with Manigault last week was recorded. I didnt know she was taping it, she said. This is about her trying to smear my name. This is freaking Nixonian.
aking such a recording is legal under District of Columbia law; the city has a one-party consent law, which makes it legal to record a phone call or conversation if one person in the conversation consents. It is illegal, however, to record both parties if neither has consented.
Manigault, who appeared as a contestant on Trumps reality shows The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice, asserted that White House press staff regularly records interviews between reporters and officials. We do it all the time, she said. When you come into [the press staffs offices], youre on the record.Several veteran White House reporters said interviews are sometimes recorded by officials but that it was unheard of to do so without a reporters prior knowledge.Manigault said a colleague, whom she didnt identify, made the recording of her encounter with Ryan.
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Reporter was taped by White House in heated exchange... (Original Post)
HipChick
Feb 2017
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underpants
(182,950 posts)1. So that's why the question about dossiers at the presser yesterday
Thanks. I'd heard about the confrontation but not this.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)3. April has been fairly vocal in asking not so softball questions...
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)2. This is getting scary.
Taping and threatening reporters.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)5. Yeah, but there is another side.
I am a teacher and live in a one-party state. I have recorded meetings with parents that I thought could go badly without the parent's knowledge. It's legal and was a way for me to make sure they didn't say things went differently than they did. I never had to use them, but I still have them.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)7. I understand.
This woman though sounds like she was making a threat. Also, taping was by a 3rd party. Probably illegal unless she told this person earlier to tape it
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)6. How about threatening a reporter "steps from the Oval Office "?
Steps?
2naSalit
(86,843 posts)4. She needs a security detail...
hope she doesn't "disappear" or end up "floating" in the river.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)8. Here: