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Trump Suing Omarosa? It’s Just More Calling-Cops-On-Black-People-For-No-Reason

Trump Suing Omarosa? It’s Just More Calling-Cops-On-Black-People-For-No-Reason

 

Between the Twitter attacks and threats of a lawsuit, so much has happened in the last few days of the President Donald Trump-Omarosa Manigault Newman “breakup,” that we’ve made a list to try and keep track.

1. Trump campaign accuses Omarosa of violating nondisclosure agreement

Trump’s campaign arm filed a complaint with an arbitrator, accusing former White House staffer Omarosa of violating a 2016 confidentiality agreement with her tell-all book, “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.” In the book, Omarosa criticized the president, calling him a racist and suggesting that he suffers from dementia, NPR reported. Omarosa reportedly promised not to disparage Trump or disclose proprietary information in the agreement. Or else what? Trump gets to disparage her?

2. Trump called Omarosa “that dog” and a “crazed, crying lowlife” on Twitter

“Even for a president who consistently takes to Twitter to assail his adversaries, the morning tweet about Ms. Manigault Newman was a remarkably crude use of the presidential bully pulpit to disparage a minority woman who once served at the highest levels in his White House,” New York Times reported.

3. Omarosa said Trump used the N-word and there’s a tape of it

Omarosa released a recording Tuesday that she says records a conference call between former Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson and former campaign aide Lynne Patton in which she has said they discussed how they would deal with the potential fallout from releasing an N-word tape, ABC reported.

“In the audio, Pierson can be heard saying she wanted more info on how the word might have been used so they could ‘maybe try to figure a way to spin it.’ … Soon after in the conversation, Pierson can be heard saying, ‘He said it (the N-word). No, he said it. He’s embarrassed.'”

4. Trump has used the term “dog” before to dehumanize critics.

His recent tweet was the latest reminder that the president is more than willing to question the looks and intelligence of African-Americans who challenge him, New York Times reported. He also called HuffPost co-founder Arianna Huffington a “dog” and said his former political rival Ted Cruz “lies like a dog.”

Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman listens during an interview with The Associated Press, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018, in New York. Manigault Newman declared she “will not be silenced” by President Donald Trump, remaining defiant as her public feud with her former boss shifted from a war of words to a possible legal battle. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

5. Other recent insults Trump has hurled at Black people

  • He called LaVar Ball, father of Los Angeles Lakers player Lonzo Ball, a “poor man’s version of Don King.”
  • He repeatedly accused Congresswoman Maxine Waters of having a “low I.Q.”
  • He questioned the intelligence of LeBron James, star Lakers basketball player.
  • He called CNN anchor Don Lemon the “the dumbest man on television.”

6. Omarosa became famous as a reality TV star on Trump’s “The Apprentice” show

Later she secretly recorded the president and others, and shared some of those tapes during her book tour. She accused Trump of using a racial slur during production of “The Apprentice”, a charge that initially surfaced during the 2016 campaign, NPR reported.

7. Is Omarosa hated because she does Trump better than Trump does Trump?

Omarosa is despised because she’s “an opportunist, someone who exaggerates and embellishes, and is unreliable, contradictory, and evasive when challenged on her inconsistencies,” Andy Dehnart reported for Reality Blurred.

“She’s also a shameless self-promoter who prioritizes herself and is only trying to make money. Wait, that sounds familiar—a lot like a man with a 42 percent approval rating and who is now president of the United States, profiting off of that position like no other president has.”

8. The government can only enforce nondisclosure agreements for classified information

The Constitution won’t let Trump silence White House aides, much as he’d like to, Washington Post reported. In her book, Omarosa claims that Trump’s reelection campaign offered her a $15,000-a-month salary in exchange for signing a confidentiality agreement.

“But such NDAs for government workers, when they go beyond prohibiting the disclosure of classified information, are unconstitutional on their face,” wrote Mark S. Zaid in a Washington Post guest column.

Zaid is a Washington lawyer who handles classified matters, including representing national security whistleblowers. He claims to have litigated more pre-publication-review classification challenges against the government during the past 25 years than any other attorney