In book, Omarosa says Trump is a bigot, behaved ‘like a dog’
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in a new book that there are tapes of President Donald Trump using racial slurs and that she saw him behaving “like a dog o the leash” at numerous events he attended without his wife, first lady Melania Trump.
The accusations are among a long list of scandalous claims contained in her new book, “Unhinged,” set to come out Aug. 14. The Associated Press purchased an early copy of the memoir, which the White House has already slammed as “riddled with lies and false accusations.”
In the book, Manigault Newman, who was a contestant on Trump’s “The Apprentice” reality show and later served as a senior adviser to the president, hurls a litany of allegations, painting the president as scattered, self-absorbed, misogynistic and insecure.
Trump, she said she’d concluded after years of defending him, was a bigot.
“I didn’t want to believe it,” she writes. “I rejected what other people said about him because they didn’t know him like I did. I had to go through the pain of witnessing his racism with my own eyes, and hearing it with my own ears, many times, until I couldn’t deny it any longer.”
She also claims without evidence that tapes exist of the president using the N-word repeatedly on the reality show’s set. She acknowledges she had never been able to obtain or hear the tapes but said three unnamed sources had described their contents.
Manigault Newman also alleges that allies of the president tried to buy her silence. When she left the White House, she says she was o ered $15,000 a month to serve in a “senior position” on Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. But that o er came along with a stringent nondisclosure agreement that was as “harsh and restrictive” as she had seen while working in television.