Conversation she had about Campaign Aides about thencandidate donald trump and the possibility of a tape on which trump uses the nword. This recording made public just hours after the president Accused Omarosa of lying after she called him a racist. And tonight, the white house is pressed. Can you guarantee the American People there will be no such tape . Abcs chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl leading us off. Reporter tonight, president Trumps Campaign is taking legal action to silence omarosa, as the president himself launches a vicious counterattack, calling his former Senior Adviser a crazed, crying lowlife, adding, Good Work By General Kelly for quickly firing that dog is this any way for a president to talk about any american, let alone somebody that he hired and made the highest ranking africanamerican woman that served in his white house . I think the president is certainly voicing his frustration with the fact that this person has shown a complete lack of integrity.
conversation she had about campaign aides about then-candidate donald trump and the possibility of a tape on which trump uses the n-word. this recording made public just hours after the president accused omarosa of lying after she called him a racist. and tonight, the white house is pressed. can you guarantee the american people there will be no such tape? abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. reporter: tonight, president trump s campaign is taking legal action to silence omarosa, as the president himself launches a vicious counterattack, calling his former senior adviser a crazed, crying lowlife, adding, good work by general kelly for quickly firing that dog! is this any way for a president to talk about any american, let alone somebody that he hired and made the highest ranking african-american woman that served in his white house? i think the president is certainly voicing his frustration with the fact that this person has shown a complete lack
issues. he s just kind of digging a hole for himself by clearly tweeting things like dog and other words. if president trump really wanted to silence omarosa, he could have ignored her. i know that we all assume at this point that s not a possibility for this president, but had he ignored her, this story would have gotten way less oxygen. instead, he explicitly acknowledged the allegation. i think had he chosen to rise above, take the high road, not at all even acknowledge this was happening, it would have been much less of a story. you know, it would have been noted that this was unverified, and everybody would have moved on. the book isn t even selling particularly well. he has chosen to magnify this feud and to put it in the spotlight. so to the extent that this has become a bigger controversy than it needed to be, it s because he s called attention to it. exactly right. he had the reality tv response, shall we say, not the more the world wrestling federation response. rig