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*Veteran White House correspondent April Ryan stands by her account of Omarosa Manigault being fired and physically removed from her White House post despite the former reality star’s denials on “Good Morning America.”
“I stand by my story. My company stands by my story. And I’m going to tell you again, sources in and outside the White House gave me the information,” Ryan told Joe Madison this morning on SiriusXM’s “Joe Madison Show.”
Shortly after the White House released an official statement Wednesday saying Omarosa had resigned from her White House post, Ryan – a longtime White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks – cited her sources in reporting that the former reality star was actually fired by Chief of Staff John Kelly and had to be forcibly removed after trying to enter Trump’s residential quarters.
Without naming names, Omarosa called out Ryan’s reporting as false and blamed it on the journalist’s “personal vendetta to bring me down.”
“Let’s be clear, only one person,” Omarosa told “GMA’s” Strahan, “no one else has reported what she’s reporting. And this is the one person who has attacked me for the past year — so you know this is personal.” (FYI, multiple outlets cited independent sources in reporting that Manigault had to be escorted out of the White House.)
Strahan later asked Manigault about reports that Kelly had to restrict her access to the president, which she denied. “I was very respectful of the process,” Manigault said. “Certainly I had more access than most, and people had problems with that. …It is ridiculous to assert that anyone would be able to violate the security parameters that is outlined in the most secure building in the world.”
Alluding again to April Ryan, she then mentioned that the Secret Service denied having to physically remove her in a tweet. “I think we should take the word of the Secret Service over someone who has a personal vendetta to bring me down, and they personally gain by continuing to advance these false narratives.”
Ryan also responded to Omarosa’s tease of having a “profound story” to tell, one that “the world will want to hear.”
Ryan believes the comment was also meant as a message to Trump. “Omarosa is basically letting them know she’s willing to talk. She’s put the White House on notice,” she told Madison Thursday.
Omarosa said during the interview that she had “seen things” during her time in the White House that made her “uncomfortable and “deeply” affected her.
Watch Omarosa’s “GMA” interview above, via ABC.
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