‘Vicious, wacky, not smart’: ex-aide Omarosa slammed by Donald Trump, who says on new tape he didn’t know she’d been fired
Trump attacked his former aide’s intelligence after the recording was released, but the White House didn’t dispute the tape’s authenticity
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at former aide and The Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman after she released a recording of a call with him in which he claimed he did not know she had been let go from her White House job the day before.
“Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time,” Trump said in a Twitter post on Monday. “She never made it, never will. 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.”
Manigault Newman’s latest revelation follows her release of a tape she said she had secretly made of her 2017 firing by White House chief of staff John Kelly. Trump aides have sought to aggressively counter her claims, which coincide with the release of the ex-aide’s new tell-all book.
In a phone call that Manigault Newman claims to have recorded with Trump after Kelly fired her, and which was broadcast on NBC News on Monday, a voice that sounds like Trump’s asks: “Omarosa, what’s going on? I just saw on the news that you’re thinking about leaving. What happened?”