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    Omarosa Tells NPR She Heard Trump 'N-Word Tape,' Contradicting Her Own Tell-All Book

    Former reality TV star and Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman spoke to NPR about explosive allegations in her new book, Unhinged, but part of her account changed in the interview.
    by Tamara Keith Aug 10, 2018 5 minutes
    In her new book, <em>Unhinged,</em> former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman writes as a Trump world insider overjoyed at his election while airing concerns about his rhetoric, policies and mental state.

    "Hearing it changed everything for me," former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman told NPR on Friday.

    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's Rachel Martin, 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

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