Omarosa again brands Trump ‘mentally impaired’ during Daily Show appearance

Omarosa Manigault Newman launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump on Tuesday, where she claimed he was ‘mentally impaired’ and ‘thrived’ off conflict, as she revealed the president was trying to ‘sue her into silence.’

During her appearance on Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show, the former White House aide acknowledged she’s had something of a ‘blindspot’ when it came to Trump in the past after appearing on his reality show The Apprentice as a young woman.

But he’d been ‘a great disappointment’ during her time working for him at the White House.

‘I was blindly loyal and I look like the biggest dummy following this person because I didn’t have that same perspective,’ Omarosa said, adding that as a billionaire and businessman, he’d ‘inspired’ her. ‘And sometimes, you have to step back in order to have a clear view and I recognize I was going down the wrong path with Trump.’

 

Omarosa Manigault Newman launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump on Tuesday, during her appearance on Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show

The former White House aide claimed Trump was 'mentally impaired' and 'thrived' off conflict, as she revealed the president was trying to 'sue her into silence'

The former White House aide claimed Trump was ‘mentally impaired’ and ‘thrived’ off conflict, as she revealed the president was trying to ‘sue her into silence’

Omarosa added that where she had once viewed Trump as ‘racial’, she now says he’s ‘racist.’ 

She also deeply regrets being ‘totally complicit’ in the Trump administration and how they ‘lie to the American people every single day.’

‘Every day he dismantles the dignity of that office,’ she said of Trump.

She also claimed that she’d hoped to represent fellow African Americans and give them a ‘voice at the table’ but had been disappointed at how Trump had failed to rise to the office of president.

In another interview earlier that day, she said she wanted a ‘nation united as opposed to divided.

‘I don’t want to see a race war as Donald Trump does.’

Noah listed some of the racist and ‘disparaging things’ that Trump has about Mexicans, Muslims, NFL players, and the ‘sh*thole countries’, before asking Omarosa what had been her breaking point. 

‘There was quite a few breaking points,’ the 44-year-old replied. ‘At first, I thought, ‘Is he doing this intentionally?’ 

‘And then when I realized he was mentally impaired, that he was declining,’ she said. ‘It’d be funny if it wasn’t true.’

She also refuted claims from Pastor Darrell Scott, a devout Trump supporter, for  saying Trump is the ‘most pro-black president of our lifetime’

During her appearance on The Daily Show, Omarosa acknowledged she's had something of a 'blindspot' when it came to Trump (pictured with her in 2016) in the past after appearing on his reality show The Apprentice as a young woman

During her appearance on The Daily Show, Omarosa acknowledged she’s had something of a ‘blindspot’ when it came to Trump (pictured with her in 2016) in the past after appearing on his reality show The Apprentice as a young woman

Omarosa appeared in the first series of The Apprentice in 2004 where she said she was 'inspired by Trump (pictured with her in 2010 during the premier of Apprentice spinoff The Ultimate Merger) who she viewed as a successful businessmen 

Omarosa appeared in the first series of The Apprentice in 2004 where she said she was ‘inspired by Trump (pictured with her in 2010 during the premier of Apprentice spinoff The Ultimate Merger) who she viewed as a successful businessmen 

‘It’s very hard to say that you’re a pro-black president when you lock your only assistant to the president in the Situation Room for two hours, which General John Kelly who makes threats that says ‘Things can get ugly for you and there’ll be damage to your reputation,’ she said.

‘It goes completely against the grain that you are completely pro-black when you treat somebody who works so hard for this administration that way.’ 

She added that, since her departure seven months ago, there is ‘still no African American assistant to the president’.

Omarosa did share one ‘insight’ she’s learned while working with the president; that he cannot survive without attention.

‘There’s one way to shut Donald Trump down and that is don’t give him the oxygen,’ Omarosa told Noah. ‘And the oxygen comes from the clicks, the ‘likes,’ the shock, discussions.’

Manigault-Newman's book 'Unhinged' is on sale today

Manigault-Newman’s book ‘Unhinged’ is on sale today

She said that Trump ‘thrived’ off conflict and outrage and had ‘loved’ the outcry over his recent spat with NBA All-Star LeBron James.

‘If you ignore him, then you starve him of the thing he loves the most and that is controversy and attention,’ Omarosa concluded.

Noah then grilled Omarosa on the secret tapes she recorded during her time at the White House which had rocked the administration.   

Omarosa revealed that she is being sued by Trump, who she said was bringing litigation against her ‘to silence me and not allow me to tell my story.’

The businesswoman explained that she’s recorded the tapes because she knew no one would ever believe her without proof.

‘This White House has a credibility issue,’ she said. ‘I knew that I had to cover my back and document what I saw as an opportunity to blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House. 

‘I knew I needed to document that corruption otherwise people would not take it seriously.’

Noah noted that Omarosa had made multiple tapes but was releasing them one by one, comparing it to her ‘releasing singles and we are waiting for the album.’

Omarosa replied that she never intended to release the audio of herself and Trump official Katrina Pierson discussing the possible existence of a recording where Trump repeatedly said the n-word on The Apprentice. The tape was recorded during the 2016 campaign.

But when Pierson repeatedly denied that conversation had ever happened, even accusing Omarosa of ‘writing a script for a movie’, she decided to release it to expose Pierson.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that she cannot be certain that there are no tapes of the president using a charged, racial slur to describe African-Americans

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that she cannot be certain that there are no tapes of the president using a charged, racial slur to describe African-Americans

The recording of the call between Pierson, Omarosa and Lynne Patton, a Trump campaign aide, and Jason Miller, the campaign’s communications director, captured them discussing Trump’s supposed use of the word, and how they should spin it.

‘He said it,’ Pierson says. ‘No, he said it. He’s embarrassed.’

Still, Omarosa insists she is not ‘trolling’ the White House, but she wanted them to know that ‘Everything that you see in Unhinged that’s quoted can be verified as documented and corroborated.’

When Noah asked if the former Trump aide ever worried about exposing White House secrets in Unhinged, which went on sale Tuesday, she smiled and replied: ‘If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.’

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has attempted to dismiss Omarosa as trying to profit off the president with ‘false attacks’ and claimed her book was ‘riddled with lies and false accusations’.

But on Tuesday, Sanders was also forced to admit she cannot rule out the possibility that an audio recording exists showing Trump using a racial slur to describe African-Americans.

Sanders told reporters that she has never heard Trump use the ‘n-word’ or anything like it, but conceded that she hasn’t been a part of every meeting the president has taken. She was 22 years old when he allegedly used the racist language on the set of ‘The Apprentice’ in 2004.

Trump ramped up his slash-and-burn campaign, calling Manigault-Newman 'that dog' and a 'crazed, lying lowlife'

Trump ramped up his slash-and-burn campaign, calling Manigault-Newman ‘that dog’ and a ‘crazed, lying lowlife’

‘I can’t guarantee anything,’ Sanders acknowledged during her first briefing since Omarosa hit the media circuit to promote her memoir ‘Unhinged.’  

Sanders delayed the televised session until after Trump’s newest White House apostate finished an MSNBC interview that created a mini-news cycle with her claim that Trump ‘absolutely’ knew about the impending 2016 release of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman before WikiLeaks splashed them online.

Omarosa said she had sat down with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators and would provide more help if they asked for it: ‘There is a lot of corruption that went on both in the campaign and in the White House and I’m going to blow the whistle on all of it.’

When MSNBC’s Katy Tur asked if Trump should be afraid of more tapes in her possession.

‘I think he should be afraid of being exposed as the misogynist, the bigot and the racist that he is.,’ Omarosa replied.

She also wouldn’t comment on whether she had more tapes of the president, or if she planned to release more of them. 

When Tur asked if Trump really had a ‘back channel’ to WikiLeaks, she responded: ‘I didn’t say that, you did.  But I will say that I am going to expose the corruption that went on in the campaign and int he White House.’   

Omarosa , pictured leaving the Daily Show with her husband John Allen Newman,  said she deeply regrets being 'totally complicit' in the Trump administration and how they 'lie to the American people every single day'

Omarosa , pictured leaving the Daily Show with her husband John Allen Newman,  said she deeply regrets being ‘totally complicit’ in the Trump administration and how they ‘lie to the American people every single day’

Omarosa, pictured flashing her new memoir, said she wanted a 'nation united as opposed to divided' and 'I don't want to see a race war as Donald Trump does' 

Omarosa, pictured flashing her new memoir, said she wanted a ‘nation united as opposed to divided’ and ‘I don’t want to see a race war as Donald Trump does’ 

Sanders framed the fired aide during her press briefing as a person who ‘showed a complete lack of integrity,’ echoing the president’s claims that he hired the reality TV phenom to work in in the White House because he ‘wanted to give her a chance.’

She also denied that the president’s most recent tweeted attack on Omarosa, a charge that she’s ‘that dog,’ has anything to do with the African-American former aide’s race.  

The Trump spokeswoman said the president’s slam had ‘absolutely nothing to do with race’ and that it was unfair for reporters to cherry-pick the times he lashed out at minorities. 

Trump had launched his most personal attack yet against Manigault-Newman on Tuesday morning, just hours after her memoir went on sale.

‘When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!’ the president tweeted.

The war of words concerns the former Trump aide’s claims that the president was caught on a hot mic uttering the ‘n-word’ racial slur during a taping of ‘The Apprentice’ years ago.

CAMPAIGN’S LAWYER IS TRUMP INSIDER AND GAWKER-BUSTER

Donald J. Trump for President has hired attorney Charles Harder to pursue legal arbitration against Omarosa Manigault-Newman.

Harder helped win wrestler Hulk Hogan a $140 million verdict against Gawker Media after the website published portions of a sex tape without his consent.

Gawker ultimately folded.

The seasoned entertainment lawyer has also represented at least three members of the Trump family.

In October 2017 presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner retained Harder to help him get through a marathon interview with congressional investigators probing alleged Trumpworld ties with Russia.

President Trump himself in March added Harder to his legal team pursuing a $20 million lawsuit against pornographic actress Stephanie Clifford, who performs under the name Stormy Daniels.

The ‘adult’ film star, Trump’s lawyers argue, has repeatedly violated the terms of a 2016 non-disclosure agreement she signed in exchange for a six-figure payoff.

Daniels claims she bedded the president in 2006 and 2007 after future first lady Melania gave birth to their son Barron.

Melania hired Harder a few months before the 2016 election to sue two publications, including DailyMail.com’s parent company, over stories linking her to the ‘escort’ trade in the 1990s during her modeling days.

That legal action was settled out of court.

Trump has denied it, saying Monday night on Twitter that ‘I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have.’ 

His re-election campaign organization filed papers in New York on Tuesday demanding damages from Manigault-Newman for violating the terms of a similar secrecy agreement she signed in 2016 while she was a paid diversity-coalition adviser.

The legal filing claims the onetime campaign adviser and former West Wing aide disparaged Trump in her unauthorized tell-all book ‘Unhinged,’ breaking a written promise to refrain from denigrating him publicly ‘during the term of your service and at all times thereafter.’ 

A campaign official said Tuesday in a statement that ‘Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. has filed an arbitration against Manigault-Newman with the American Arbitration Association in New York City, for breach of her 2016 confidentiality agreement with the Trump Campaign.’

‘President Trump is well known for giving people opportunities to advance in their careers and lives over the decades, but wrong is wrong, and a direct violation of an agreement must be addressed and the violator must be held accountable.’

Omarosa will have two weeks to formally respond to the arbitration demand, according to a campaign source, who also confirmed the hiring of entertainment lawyer Charles Harder to handle the matter.

But she has already hit out at the lawsuit, saying she ‘will not be silenced’ by the president.

In an interview with The Associated Press she said: ‘I’m not going to be bullied by Donald Trump.’

Once again, she accused 72-year-old Trump of being in mental decline and being unfit to be president, adding he is intentionally sowing racial division. She accused him of using his rowdy political rallies to divide, even suggesting Trump is promoting violence.

Still, the former reality TV star-turned-political aide declined to answer several questions about her experiences during her year as the highest-ranking African-American aide in Trump’s White House, citing the arbitration action. She said she’d been interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office, but would not discuss details.

Harder has represented President Trump, Melania Trump and Jared Kushner in the past. 

He’s best known for bankrupting Gawker Media with a nine-figure lawsuit verdict after the website published a sex tape depicting pro wrestler Hulk Hogan.  

Omarosa, who has known Trump since she was a contestant in 2003 on his reality TV show, ‘The Apprentice,’ said his proclivity for racial division is evident ‘when you see at every single opportunity he insults African-Americans.’ She noted, as examples, Trump’s recent criticism of NBA player LeBron James and California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters.

Trump recently tweeted that it took the ‘dumbest man on television’ – also an African-American – to make James ‘look smart,’ and he regularly refers to Waters as ‘low I.Q.’

‘He wants to divide this nation,’ said Manigault Newman, who spoke to the AP during the publicity tour for her book, ‘Unhinged,’ in which she portrays Trump as racist and misogynistic.

‘He wants to pit his base against successful African-Americans,’ she said. ‘He uses his rallies to really encourage people to bring down African-Americans. That is truly evidence that this man is not trying to unite us. But he is specifically trying to divide us.’

In addition to speaking publicly about her experiences in Trump’s White House, Omarosa has been releasing audio recordings of conversations and meetings held in the building, including a snippet of one she says is of her telephone conversation with Trump the day after she was fired in December by White House chief of staff John Kelly.

She declined Tuesday to answer questions about her recordings, which she has described as a ‘treasure trove,’ and the extent to which colleagues are secretly recording each other at the White House, again citing the arbitration action.

But she insisted she pushed for diversity in the White House. She noted that hiring and personnel were the responsibility of others, but said she has ‘tons and tons of emails’ in which she pushed job candidates for consideration.

‘And it just didn’t seem good enough for this White House,’ she said, suggesting the president is uninterested having a diverse staff. ‘There is no excuse that there’s not another African-American assistant to the president. No excuse whatsoever.’

She talked about helping secure funding for the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, of which she is a graduate.

  



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