President Donald Trump "absolutely" knew about the massive WikiLeaks document dump ahead of its release, former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman told MSNBC on Tuesday, per The Hill.
"He knew what was coming out before WikiLeaks released them?" anchor Katy Tur asked.
"Yes," Manigault Newman responded, referring to the dissemination of emails stolen from Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta and other Democratic officials during the campaign.
But Manigault Newman, who is on a press tour for her new book, "Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the White House," did not provide any evidence to back up her claim.
When pressed on whether Trump had a backchannel to WikiLeaks, Manigault Newman said, "I didn't say that, you did" and refused to give further details, telling MSNBC to ask the White House instead.
"I am going to expose the corruption that went on in the campaign and the White House," she added. "I am going to continue to blow the whistle on all of this."
Manigault Newman, a former contestant on NBC's "The Apprentice," joined the Trump campaign as the Director of African American Outreach during the 2016 Republican National Convention. She then served in a communications role in Trump's administration, but was fired by chief of staff John Kelly last December after just one year in her position.
She released a secret recording Sunday of her purported conversation with Kelly in the Situation Room, saying he "threatened" her while firing her and another Monday of a phone conversation between Trump and Manigault Newman where Trump suggests he was disappointed in the firing.
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