Omarosa Manigault Newman: Former Trump aide branded a 'wacky lowlife' by the US president

Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman has claimed in a new book that there are tapes of President Donald Trump using racial slurs
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Sophie Williams13 August 2018

US President Donald Trump has branded his former advisor a “wacky lowlife” after she revealed that she had taped a call with him after she was fired by chief of staff John Kelly.

Earlier on Monday, Omarosa Manigault Newman released another audio recording which she claimed featured Donald Trump, as she threatens to "blow the whistle" on White House Corruption.

Ms Manigault Newman, a former Apprentice contestant, is releasing a tell-all book on August 14. She said: “There’s a lot of very corrupt things happening in the White House and I am going to blow the whistle on a lot of them.”

Mr Trump took aim via Twitter, writing: “Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will.

Omarosa Manigault Newman was the former White House aide to President Donald Trump.
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"She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her but heard ...really bad things.

“Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work. 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!

“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!”

Some three hours later, he added that Ms Manigault Newman had already signed a non-disclosure agreement.

Donald Trump took aim at the former advisor on Twitter
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She added that she saw the US president behaving “like a dog off the leash” at numerous events he attended without his wife, first lady Melania.

The former advisor said after years of defending him that she had come to the conclusion that Mr Trump was a bigot.

"I didn't want to believe it," she writes. "I rejected what other people said about him because they didn't know him like I did. I had to go through the pain of witnessing his racism with my own eyes, and hearing it with my own ears, many times, until I couldn't deny it any longer."

Ms Manigault Newman also alleges that allies of the president tried to buy her silence.

When she left the White House, she says she was offered £11747.25 ($15,000) a month to serve in a "senior position" on Trump's 2020 re-election campaign.

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