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the GUARDIAN'S "Unhinged" review: Omarosa dishes the dirt on Trump's circle and few are spared.
It has all the ingredients of a great novel; power, sex, race, and money. Light on policy, and heavy on the personal, Omarosa Manigault Newmans Unhinged: An Insider Account of the Trump White House is a prime candidate for this summers best in beach reading.
Yes, this is the very same former contestant on The Apprentice who once bragged to PBS Frontline in 2016 that every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to President Trump.
Omarosa says Trump is a racist who uses N-word and claims there is tape to prove it
Now, as the woman who became the most prominent African American in the Trump White House before she was abruptly dismissed last December, she dishes the dirt, and few are spared.
Manigault Newman recalls her days on The Apprentice when Donald Trump, Don Jr, and the model Carol Alt were seated around the table. According to Manigault Newman, Trump turned to his son, and said: Youve got to get ass like that. You got to get some ass like that. At the time, Vanessa, Don Jrs soon-to-be ex-wife, was pregnant.
And yes, according to Manigault Newman, there is now a tanning bed in the White House.
Unhinged also posits that Trump may have received personal counseling from the Rev Paula White, the pastor of the New Destiny Church, a non-denominational megachurch in Apoka, Florida. According to Manigault Newman, White had blocked her from her job of choice at the White House, head of the Office of Public Liaison.
She was then warned by a Trump family member to back off on account of Trump and White enjoying a special relationship. Not content to let the story end there, Manigault Newman asks whether Whites position as Trumps spiritual advisor had ever been missionary?
Disturbingly, but not surprisingly, we are also advised that Trump had initially asked to be sworn in over a copy of Art of the Deal, instead of the Bible.
The Apprentice veteran also chronicles the hobbies of her former colleagues. Among other things, Manigault Newman teases, Another highly visible assistant to the president might be carrying on her affair right now. As for the identity of the presidential aide, Omarosa leaves the question of who that might be to the readers imagination, and medias follow-up.
Unhinged also sprinkles a few crumbs for the Mueller investigation, and offers several substantive personnel critiques. Manigault Newman writes that the president asked her whether she approved of his firing of former FBI director James Comey, a question she sidestepped. Omarosa recalls Trump saying: Hey Omarosa, what do you think about Comey? I had to let him go, right? He could not be trusted; he was not loyal.
Manigault Newman offers self-absolution from the get-go. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Mike Pence, the vice president, Gen John Kelly, Trumps chief of staff, and Betsy DeVos, Trumps education secretary, come in for a barrage of criticism. Omarosa labels Pence the Stepford Veep, who beatifically gazes up at the president, even as he actively yearns to replace him. For added measure, Pence is tagged for being an open door for anonymous donors, aka the Kochs, who have since fallen from the presidents good graces.
As for DeVos, Omarosa lets the reader know that Trump refers to her as Ditzy DeVos, and that the ultra-wealthy DeVos was a mixture of arrogance, ignorance, and condescension. Faced with protests at Howard University a historically black college and Omarosas alma matter over the administrations positions on education and race, DeVos is quoted by Manigault Newman as saying, They dont get it. They dont have the capacity to understand what were trying to accomplish.
But it is Kelly who is the prime target for Manigault Newmans wrath, and it was Kelly who fired her. Unhinged depicts him as a chief of staff who went out of his way to dispatch her from the White House, and then went the added mile of pummeling her in the media. In rebuttal, Manigault Newman denies being escorted by Secret Service from the building and misusing government property.
In an effort to even the score, Omarosa also offers a purported quote of Kelly trashing Cowanda Jones-Johnson, the mother of Sgt La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush in Niger. Apparently, Kelly had a problem with Jones-Johnson allowing Florida congresswoman Fredericka Wilson listen to Trumps call to Jones-Johnson.
Omarosa recounts Kelly saying, How dare she put the call on speaker? How dare she not just be grateful to receive a call at all? Apparently, knowing ones place is not just about protocol for Kelly.
As to be expected, Unhinged is self-reverential, with Omarosa, an ordained Baptist minister, offering self-absolution from the get-go. The almost mononymous author volunteers that Trump was not her first choice for president, and that she only signed up after an expected gig with the Clinton campaign fell through.
Apparently, back in 2013, Omarosa was working for a Clinton Pac, Ready for Hillary, and telling the world: All of us have to stick together and get behind this sister. As for joining the Trump campaign, Omarosa was courted by Michael Cohen, Corey Lewandowski, and Donald Trump, she says. Who could say no to an offer like that?
Looking back at her brief White House tenure, Omarosa writes: If I get hurt, if somebody cuts me, I bleed. But a marked lack of introspection permeates Unhinged.
Reliving the Access Hollywood tape episode, Omarosa explains that she could not abandon Trump on account of loyalty and her remit to handle the campaigns ever-growing woman problem.
For the record, Trumps purported use of the N-Word, which made headlines last week, was never much of a secret. It had been reported in the press for years. Against this backdrop, Omarosa would be hard-pressed to claim ignorance. Or an epiphany.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/12/unhinged-omarosa-manigault-newman-book-trump?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=283282&subid=17536001&CMP=GT_US_collection
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,246 posts)book because it pisses off Trump and the GOP, and because it contains more truth than anything Trump puts forth. God help us.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The more dirt on him, the better.
emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)trueblue2007
(17,220 posts)Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Let the fools fight.
I hope they destroy each other.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Always the victim, blaming others. Shit she didn't mind it when she was supposedly in shithole's favor.
UGH
kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)She is his type physically, plastic blonde with fake boobs.
0rganism
(23,955 posts)get a whole bunch of people pissed off and agitated about Omarosa's allegations, then in a month or so she says, "oh i was making all that up and the tapes are an edited hoax." what then? how about a whole bunch of otherwise credible, respectable high-profile media figures are shown up as fools.
when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. i believe the backstabbing Trump-worshipping Omarosa a hell of a lot more than i believe the regretful considerate Omarosa.
salin
(48,955 posts)0rganism
(23,955 posts)maybe it comes in the form of money from some Trump slush fund
maybe it comes in the form of a well-paid sinecure at some right wing think tank
just because we don't see the whole picture yet, doesn't mean there's no grifty angle
how about this: sell your book twice, first to liberals and anti-Trumpists, then later to the rightwing nutjobs as a joke X-mas gift -- "got a liberal in your life? send them this book, where some things they believe are built up with lies and then taken away."
trolls like nothing better than seeing their victims take the bait.
in support of your theory: she had to have signed a non-disclosure agreement in order to work in the maggot's White House. How could she write a supposed "tell-all" book under such circumstances???
emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)omarosa is a first class fraud, self-hating african-American that I pity as an unremorseful and shameless sham artist. Why self-hating. She knowingly worked for a racist grifter.
scarletwoman
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DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)Two of the biggest grifters of all time!
struggle4progress
(118,288 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)That sucks. Republicans are squandering so much of our money on a draft-dodging "billionaire."
What kind of sick political party are they?