Omarosa Manigault last month at Trump Tower before she was appointed a White House communications official. The reporter, April Ryan, said Manigault “physically intimidated” her in a manner that could have warranted intervention by the Secret Service. Trump appointed her director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison in January. Ryan, a veteran White House correspondent for the American Urban Radio Networks, used the same phrase repeatedly in an interview. In October, Manigault sent Ryan an email raising questions about whether Ryan was being paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign — a claim Ryan vigorously denies.

Source: Washington Post February 13, 2017 23:48 UTC