The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Omarosa to release tell-all book on Trump White House

- By Nedra Rhone nrhone@ajc.com

Omarosa Manigault Newman who formerly as served assistant to the president and director of communicat­ions for the office of public liaison under Donald Trump, is back in the headlines after her unceremoni­ous exit from the White House in December.

On Thursday, Gallery Books announced the Aug. 14 release of a tell-all book from Manigault Newman. “Unhinged: An Insiders Account of the Trump White House,” promises to reveal a “jaw-dropping” account of the corruption and chaos in the White House.

Though White House officials have downplayed Manigault Newman’s associatio­n with Trump, the limited details about the book emphasize her 15-year relationsh­ip with the president including four television shows, the presidenti­al campaign and her short term of service in the White House.

Now that their relationsh­ip has come to a “decisive and definitive end,” Manigault Newman, 44, a reality-star turned chaplain, offers nearly 400 pages telling her side of the story and she claims to have taken names and numbers.

Manigault Newman dropped hints earlier this year that a book was coming but the publisher’s surprise announceme­nt revealed it is finished and ready to hit shelves next month.

Given her not-so-positive comments about the Trump administra­tion during her appearance this spring on CBS’s “Celebrity Big Brother,” the tellall is probably not a very flattering portrayal of the White House.

Manigault Newman isn’t the first former White House employee to release a book. The announceme­nt of Manigault Newman’s book came just days after the official release of a memoir by former press secretary Sean Spicer. “The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President,” (Regnery Publishing, $28) is 100 pages shorter than Manigault Newman’s book and recently made headlines when a heckler in New York called the book and the author “garbage.” On Wednesday, Spicer’s appearance at a BJ’s Wholesale Club in Massachuse­tts was cancelled because of the political climate.

Maybe that explains why Gallery Publishing has kept Manigault Newman’s book under wraps.

Manigault Newman has previously written a selfhelp book advising women on when and how to be assertive as well as an art book co-written with her mother, Theresa Manigault.

When she’s not writing books or doing other things, Manigault Newman is serving in pastoral ministry at the Sanctuary at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Jacksonvil­le, Florida. Her husband, John Allen Newman, whom she married in 2017, serves as senior pastor.

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