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White House and Political News
Trump Calls Omarosa A 'Dog' In Latest Attack On Ex-Aide
Omarosa Drops A Bombshell Claim On MSNBC: Trump Knew About Clinton’s Stolen Emails Before WikiLeaks
Former White House staffer Omarosa Mani- gault-Newman added a major new twist to the time- line of Russian meddling in the 2016 election by claiming that President Donald Trump knew the content of the stolen emails that were released by Wikileaks — prior to the public publishing of the documents.
“I will say this, that there was a lot of corruption that went on, both in the cam- paign and in the White House, I am going to blow the whistle on all of it,” Mani- gault-Newman promised during an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur on Tues- day.
“You were instructed ac- cording to the book to bring up the emails at every point you could at the end of the
Omarosa shares some of her story on MSNBC.
2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton’s emails,” Tur noted. “Did Donald Trump know about the emails before they came out?”
“Absolutely,” Manigualt- Newman replied.
“He knew about them be- fore Wikileaks released them?” Tur followed up, to
confirm.
“Yes,” she replied again. “You are saying that he
had a back channel?” Tur asked.
“You said that, I didn’t,” she answered. “I will expose the corruption in the White House and I will continue to blow the whistle about it.”
President Trump and his former aide Omarosa Newman.
WASHINGTON -Presi- dent Donald Trump on Tuesday referred to former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault New- man, the only African-Ameri- can to have served in a senior role in the White House, as a "dog."
"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!" Trump tweeted Tuesday.
Referring to an African- American woman as an ani- mal is at best a sharp departure from the language typically employed by Presi- dents and at worst a reference that traffics in sexual and racial imagery. Trump has long denied being racist and has dismissed a claim made by Manigault Newman that he used a racial slur on the set of "The Apprentice." He's also in- voked "dog" to insult non- African-Americans -- including Mitt Romney and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
As President, however, Trump has stoked racial ten- sions in the U. S., blaming "both sides" after violence sparked last year by a neo- Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also privately re- ferred some African nations as "s***hole countries" and lam- basted the protests led over- whelmingly by black NFL players.
In a separate tweet Tuesday morning, Trump referred to a crash outside the UK's Houses of Parliament as a "terrorist attack" committed by "ani- mals," though the incident was still being investigated and the identity of the driver had not been publicly released.
The President also has been accused of calling some women "fat pigs" and "dogs," though Trump has defended his treatment of women and denied multiple sexual mis- conduct claims against him.
Manigault Newman
was fired from her job as di- rector of communications for the Office of Public Liaison by Trump's chief of staff John Kelly last December.
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