President Trump broke his silence about former White House aide and “Apprentice” contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman on Monday, blasting her as “wacky,” claiming she “begged” him for a job and adding that she was “hated” by her colleagues in the West Wing.
“Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her,” Trump wrote on his Twitter account. “She was vicious, but not smart.”
After a delay of about 20 minutes, Trump resumed his offensive against her.
“I would rarely see her but heard really bad things. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work,” he continued to rail. “When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me – until she got fired!”
Then moments later he apologized for attacking her, but said he had to because the “Fake Media” would not cover her fairly.
“While I know it’s ‘not presidential’ to take on a lowlife like Omarosa, and while I would rather not be doing so, this is a modern day form of communication and I know the Fake News Media will be working overtime to make even Wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible. Sorry!,” he wrote, repeating the “lowlife” moniker he used on Saturday.
Manigault Newman, touting a tell-all book about her time in the White House titled “Unhinged,” appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday and “Today” on Monday.
In the interviews, she revealed she secretly recorded White House chief of staff John Kelly firing her in December 2017 and a call she got from Trump expressing surprise that she had been canned.
“Omarosa? Omarosa, what’s going on? I just saw on the news that you’re thinking about leaving? What happened?” Trump says on the tape played on the “Today” show.
“General Kelly — General Kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave,” Newman said on the tape, referring to Kelly, a retired Marine general.
“No … I, I, nobody even told me about it,” the president responds.
On “Meet the Press,” she acknowledged that she had been “complicit with this White House in deceiving this nation.”
“They continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is, about how difficult it is for him to process complex information, how he is not engaged in some of the most important decisions that impacts our country,” she said on NBC.
She also confirmed that she had heard Trump on tape using the N-word while filming “The Apprentice.”
“I have heard the tape,” she said, adding that three sources she talked to for her book relayed the same story.
But the incident isn’t in her book because she didn’t hear the tape until after the book was published.
She said Trump’s use of the racist slur opened her eyes about him.
“I have heard for two years that it existed and 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,” Manigault Newman said. “But when he talks that way, the way he did on this tape, it confirms that he is truly a racist.”
And although she says he never used the N-word in her presence, she suggested he may have made similar comments about her when she was out of earshot.
“Because Donald Trump talks about everyone behind their backs. You leave the room and he probably has a nickname for you,” she said. “There’s a nickname for everyone in his administration and his circles.”
In the taped conversation in the White House Situation Room, which is used for confidential meetings about sensitive national security issues and off-limits to cellphones and other electronic devices, Kelly told Manigault Newman that he was axing her over “serious integrity violations.”
“You can look at your time here at the White House as a year of service to the nation and then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation,” Kelly says on the recording played on “Meet the Press.”
Manigault Newman defended her secretly recording Kelly, saying she was just trying to “protect” herself.
“If I did not have this recording, people would still believe the false story that I was running around the White House. The false story … that I tried to charge the residence of the White House, and it’s a lie,” she said on “Meet the Press.” “If I didn’t have this recording, listen, people would still think trying to set off alarms.”
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