Omarosa unleashes on Trump in new book

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. » Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in a new book that she saw President Donald Trump behave “like a dog off the leash” at events he attended without his wife, first lady Melania Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

It’s one of 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 charges. Trump, she eventually concluded, was “racist.”

“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.

Manigault Newman also charges that allies of the president tried to buy her silence. When she left the White House, she says she was offered $15,000 a month to serve in a “senior position” on Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. But that offer came along with a stringent non-disclosure agreement as “harsh and restrictive” as she had seen while working in television.

After turning down the job, she said she received a “flurry” of letters from attorneys representing the president telling her to “stay silent