{"id":176791,"date":"2018-08-14T22:17:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T02:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176791"},"modified":"2018-08-14T22:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T02:17:34","slug":"trump-lashes-omarosa-calls-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/14\/trump-lashes-omarosa-calls-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lashes out at Omarosa, calls her ‘that dog’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cGood work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!\u201d (File Photo<\/a> By Gage Skidmore\/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump escalated his messy clash with former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Tuesday, referring to the longtime colleague, who had been the top African-American in his White House, as \u201cthat dog!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump tweeted a barrage of insults Tuesday morning as Manigault Newman continued promoting her White House tell-all and releasing secret audio recordings. Her book paints a damning picture of Trump, including her claim that he used racial slurs on the set of his reality show \u201cThe Apprentice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen 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,\u201d Trump said. \u201cGood work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!\u201d John Kelly is White House chief of staff.<\/p>\n

While Trump trades in insults on a near daily basis, deeming Manigault Newman a \u201cdog\u201d was a stunning move in a row that touched on several sensitive issues in Trump’s White House, including a lack of racial diversity among senior officials, security concerns \u2014 Manigault Newman taped her firing in the White House Situation Room \u2014 and extraordinary measures such as non-disclosure agreements to keep ex-employees quiet.<\/p>\n

Trump has also pushed back against Manigault Newman’s claim that she had heard an audiotape of him using the N-word. He tweeted that he had received a call from the producer of \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d assuring him \u201cthere are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump insisted, \u201cI don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have.\u201d He said Manigault Newman had called him \u201ca true Champion of Civil Rights\u201d until she was fired.<\/p>\n

Manigault Newman, the former White House liaison to black voters, writes in her new memoir that she’d heard such tapes existed. She said Sunday that she had listened to one after the book closed.<\/p>\n

On CBS Tuesday, Manigault Newman released another audio recording that she said showed campaign workers discussing an alleged recording of Trump using the racial slur. The White House and the campaign did not immediately respond to questions.<\/p>\n

One of the people allegedly featured on the tape is Katrina Pierson, an adviser to Trump’s re-election campaign who served as a spokeswoman for his 2016 campaign. Pierson has said she never heard Trump use this type of language and said on Fox that the only person she heard talking about a tape was Manigault Newman.<\/p>\n

Asked if the book can be backed up by email or recordings, Manigault Newman said on CBS that every quote in the book \u201ccan be verified, corroborated and it’s well documented,\u201d suggesting she may have more information to release.<\/p>\n

The dispute has been building for days as Manigault Newman promotes her memoir \u201cUnhinged,\u201d which comes out officially Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In a series of interviews, Manigault Newman has also revealed two audio recordings from her time at the White House, including portions of a recording of her firing by Kelly, which she says occurred in the high-security Situation Room, and a phone call with Trump after she was fired.<\/p>\n

Manigault Newman says she has more recordings. Asked on MSNBC’s \u201cHardball\u201d if special counsel Robert Mueller \u2014 investigating possible co-ordination between the Trump campaign and Russia \u2014 would be interested in any of them, she said, \u201cIf his office calls again, anything they want, I’ll share.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump officials and a number of outside critics denounced the recordings as a serious breach of ethics and security \u2014 and White House aides worried about what else Manigault Newman may have captured in the West Wing.<\/p>\n

The tape recording appears to show Trump expressing surprise about her firing, saying \u201cnobody even told me about it.\u201d But Manigault Newman said he \u201cprobably instructed General Kelly to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Twitter, Trump declared Monday that she had been \u201cfired for the last time,\u201d a reference to her appearances on his reality TV show. He said Kelly had called her a \u201closer & nothing but problems,\u201d but he himself had tried to save her job \u2014 because he liked her public comments about him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me – until she got fired!\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n

Responding on NBC, Manigault Newman said, \u201cI think it’s sad that with all the things that’s going on in the country that he would take time out to insult me and to insult my intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cThis is his pattern with African-Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

First lady Melania Trump, meanwhile, is disappointed that Manigault Newman \u201cis lashing out and retaliating in such a self-serving way, especially after all the opportunities given to her by the President,\u201d said White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.<\/p>\n

Manigault Newman’s exit does highlight the lack of diversity among Trump’s top aides. She was the highest-ranking African-American on the White House staff. She said on NBC that in her absence \u201cthey’re making decisions about us without us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump’s battle with Omarosa underscores the racial tensions that have defined his presidency. He notably blamed \u201cboth sides\u201d for violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, a year ago and has questioned the intelligence of other prominent black figures including California Rep. Maxine Waters, basketball star LeBron James and TV journalist Don Lemon. He also has targeted black NFL players for kneeling in social protest during the national anthem.<\/p>\n

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 accept a \u201csenior position\u201d on his 2020 re-election campaign along with a stringent nondisclosure agreement.<\/p>\n

The offer raises fresh question about the ways that White House aides are being offered safe landing spots after they leave. For example, Trump’s former personal aide John McEntee, who was removed from his job in April, went to the campaign.<\/p>\n

Trump tweeted Monday that Manigault Newman has a \u201cfully signed Non-Disclosure Agreement!\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not clear exactly what he was referring to. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday on ABC that there are \u201cconfidentiality agreements\u201d in the West Wing. And Trump’s campaign said that in the 2016 race she \u201csigned the exact same NDA that everyone else on the campaign signed, which is still enforceable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said on \u201cFox and Friends\u201d Monday that Manigault Newman may have broken the law by recording private conversations inside the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe’s certainly violating national security regulations, which I think have the force of law,\u201d Giuliani said.<\/p>\n

But experts in national security and clearance law said that, while she seriously violated rules \u2014 and would likely be barred from ever being granted a security clearance \u2014 she probably didn’t break any law unless the conversations she recorded were classified.<\/p>\n

In the recording with Kelly, which Manigault Newman quotes extensively in her new book, Kelly can be heard saying that he wants to talk with her about leaving the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s come to my attention over the last few months that there’s been some pretty, in my opinion, significant integrity issues related to you,\u201d Kelly is heard saying, before adding that if she makes it a \u201cfriendly departure\u201d then she can \u201cgo on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manigault Newman said she viewed the conversation as a \u201cthreat\u201d and defended her decision to covertly record it and other White House conversations, saying otherwise \u201cno one\u201d would believe her.<\/p>\n

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