Former aide a ‘dog’

President Trump steps up attack on ex-official in furious tweet

AN infuriated Donald Trump has continued his attack on ousted aide Omarosa Manigault Newman by praising chief of staff John Kelly for “quickly firing that dog” in an extraordinary spray.

“When you give a crazed, crying low-life 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!” Mr Trump tweeted.

It comes as Ms Manigault Newman said, in an explosive claim, that the US President “absolutely” knew about Wikileaks hacking Hillary Clinton’s emails prior to the 2016 US election.

“There is a lot of corruption that went on both in the campaign and in the White House and I’m going to blow the whistle on all of it,” she told MSNBC in the United States.

Meanwhile, the White House refused to confirm whether or not Mr Trump had ever used a racial slur.

“I cannot guarantee anything,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.

“I can tell you that the President addressed this question directly. I can tell you that I’ve never heard it … if at any point we felt that the President was who some of his critics claim him to be, we (White House personnel) certainly wouldn’t be here.”

Ms Sanders said Ms Manigault Newman wanted to “tear this place to the ground” by secretly recording conversations during her year in the White House.

In retaliation, the Trump campaign launched legal action against the former reality star, saying she has breached a confidentiality agreement signed in 2016.

Mr Trump’s latest Twitter rant came after US television network, CBS, aired new audio, provided by Ms Manigault Newman, of a 2016 conference call between top Trump staffers that supported some of her claims about the possible tape.