Trump: Omarosa Is 'a Lowlife'

President has one word to describe ex-aide ahead of her new tell-all book
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Aug 12, 2018 7:09 AM CDT
Trump: Omarosa Is 'a Lowlife'
In this 2017 file photo, Omarosa Manigault speaks in the White House. Manigault Newman writes that President Trump is a bigot, and that "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."   (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

President Trump has one word to describe former White House staffer and fellow reality-TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman: "Lowlife." Manigault Newman claims in an upcoming book, Unhinged, that Trump used racial slurs on the set of his reality show The Apprentice. She also says she later concluded that he is a racist and a bigot. On Saturday, reporters asked Trump during an event at his golf club in New Jersey if he felt betrayed by Manigault Newman. He responded: "Lowlife. She's a lowlife." Manigault Newman was a contestant on Trump's reality show and later served as a senior adviser to the president. In the book, she paints Trump as scattered, self-absorbed, misogynistic, and insecure. The book is set for release Tuesday. The White House has already slammed it as "riddled with lies and false accusations."

The AP purchased an advance copy of the book, in which Manigault Newman claims without evidence that tapes exist of Trump using the N-word repeatedly on the reality show's set. She acknowledges she had never been able to obtain or hear the tapes but said three unnamed sources had described their contents. She alleges that Trump has exhibited signs of a "mental decline that could not be denied" and says she went as far as printing out a study linking Diet Coke consumption to dementia and strokes and putting it in his briefing stack. She also described him as a man who "loved conflict, chaos, and confusion; he loved seeing people argue or fight." Manigault Newman also alleges that Trump allies tried to buy her silence after she left the White House, offering her $15,000 a month to serve in a "senior position" on his 2020 re-election campaign along with a stringent nondisclosure agreement.

(More Omarosa Manigault Newman stories.)

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