Reality TV star turned White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman’s admission that she secretly taped conversations in the West Wing – including her ouster by Chief of Staff John Kelly in the ultra-secure Situation Room – was a major breach of protocol and could put her in legal jeopardy.

“Who in their right mind thinks it’s appropriate to secretly record the White House chief of staff in the Situation Room?” tweeted Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee. “If she broke federal law, she should be prosecuted.”

In the interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” for her new book “Unhinged,” Manigault Newman said she taped Kelly terminating her employment as a form of protection in the backstabbing White House.

“If I didn’t have these recordings, no one in America would believe me,” the former “Apprentice” star said. “This is a White House where everybody lies … you have to have your back.”

The White House blasted her for recording Kelly in the Situation Room, saying it shows a “blatant disregard for our national security – and then to brag about it on national television further proves the lack of character and integrity of this disgruntled former White House employee,” press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Sunday.

The Situation Room is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, where White House officials conduct some of their most sensitive discussions, and the use of cell phones and other recording devices is prohibited.

“At the very least it’s a security violation, bringing an electronic device into any active SCIF, a secure facility, is a security protocol,” Frank Cilluffo, director of George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, told the Post. “If it happened to be at at time when classified, whether defense sensitive or national security sensitive information, was being discussed – obviously that’s a much bigger legal violation. She would be breaking the law there.”

Samantha Vinograd, who worked on the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said she attended numerous meetings in the Situation Room and never saw a cell phone in it.

“Bringing electronics into a secure space means it is no longer secure,” she said on Twitter.

Manigault Newman also called herself “complicit” in lying to the American people about Trump’s fitness to serve as commander-in-chief as she continued to take shots at her former boss.

“I was complicit with this White House deceiving this nation,” she said. “They continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is, how difficult it is for him to process complex information. How he has not engaged in some of the most important decisions that impact our country.”

Manigault Newman, the highest ranking African-American White House staffer, also confirmed that she heard Trump on tape using the N-word.

“I have heard the tape,” she said, explaining that three different sources she talked to for her book had described the same story about Trump using the racial slur during filming of “The Apprentice.”

She explained that she didn’t hear the recording until after her book was published, adding that she suspected it may be used as an “October surprise” against Trump and Republicans in advance of this November’s midterm elections.

“Once I heard it for myself it confirmed what I feared the most: that Donald Trump is a con and has been masquerading as someone who is actually open to engaging with diverse communities,” she said on NBC.

And while she said Trump never used the racial slur in her presence, Manigault Newman suggested he may have used it to describe her when she was out of earshot.

“Because Donald Trump talks about everyone behind their backs. You leave the room, Chuck, and he probably has a nickname for you,” she said. “There’s a nickname for everyone in his administration and his circles.”

The president called Manigault Newman, who came to fame on his reality show, a “lowlife” on Saturday.

With Post wires