President Donald Trump has denied allegations made by ‘wacky and deranged’ Omarosa Manigault Newman accusing the former Apprentice host of using the N-word.
‘[The Apprentice producer] Mark Burnett called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa,’ the president tweeted on Monday.
‘I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up.
‘Look at her MANY recent quotes saying such wonderful and powerful things about me – a true Champion of Civil Rights – until she got fired.
‘Omarosa had Zero credibility with the Media (they didn’t want interviews) when she worked in the White House.
‘Now that she says bad about me, they will talk to her. Fake News!’
Trump said the former Apprentice contestant had begged for a job in the White House but was hated by others, missed work and was ‘nasty.’
Still, he said he directed his chief of staff, Kelly, to try to smooth things over with her.
‘When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me – until she got fired!’ he wrote in a series of posts on Twitter.
Ahead of the Tuesday release of her book Unhinged, which describes her time in the White House, Omarosa – known commonly by her first name – has released recordings of conversations she had with Kelly and Trump when she was fired in December.
The White House has pushed back, saying the recordings raise questions about her integrity.
Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders on Sunday also said the recordings, including one in the White House’s secure Situation Room, showed ‘a blatant disregard for our national security.’
Asked if she was concerned about any legal consequences, Omarosa told NBC’s Today program: ‘No, absolutely not.’
She was previously best known for repeatedly being fired on NBC’s The Apprentice and was one of Trump’s more visible African-American supporters during his 2016 election campaign.
‘It’s sad that with all the things that’s going on in the country that he would take time out to insult me and to insult my intelligence,’ she told MSNBC in reaction to Trump’s tweets.
‘This is his pattern with African-Americans, and he doesn’t know how to control himself.’
In Unhinged, the former Trump aide alleges there are audio outtakes from ‘The Apprentice’ showing the president using the ‘N-word’ to describe African-Americans.
According to the HuffPost, Manigault-Newman said she was shown the tapes by former Apprentice contestant Troy McClain.
She told Trump aides that his alleged racial slurs were made against black contestant Kwame Jackson, the publication reports.
McClain denied ever showing her such recording and said: ‘You’ve got to be bullsh*****g me. Is this a joke?’ Tom Arnold tweeted ‘B*****it’ in response to Trump’s tweet about Burnett.
Last month, Vice Media announced that Arnold would be featured in a new show called ‘The Hunt for the Trump Tapes’ and would investigate rumored recordings of the president.
She claimed Monday on NBC’s Today show that she made a Situation Room tape of Kelly firing her only after his aides locked her in the secure area and refused to let her see a lawyer.
Manigault Newman told Savannah Guthrie to ‘calm down’ and repeatedly snapped as she was being grilled about Trump during a heated ‘Today’ interview on Monday.
Omarosa also told Guthrie at various points to ‘wait’, claimed the host was asking questions ‘too quickly’ and eventually ended the interview after 10 minutes despite earlier saying she had ‘all the time you need’.
The former reality TV star was on the program to promote her new tell-all book, Unhinged, about the Trump White House and air secret audio recordings of conversations with the President and his chief of staff.
She told Guthrie to ‘calm down’ after being asked how she managed to record chief of staff John Kelly as he was firing her in the White House Situation Room.
Her bright yellow dress she wore on the show baffled style critics and left them wondering what she was thinking.