{"id":16611,"date":"2018-08-12T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T10:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=16611"},"modified":"2018-08-12T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T10:08:16","slug":"in-wake-of-critical-book-trump-calls-omarosa-a-lowlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=16611","title":{"rendered":"In wake of critical book, Trump calls Omarosa &#8216;a lowlife&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bridgewater, Aug 12 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> President Donald Trump has one word to describe former White House staffer and fellow reality-TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman: &#8220;Lowlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manigault Newman claims in an upcoming book, &#8220;Unhinged,&#8221; that Trump used racial slurs on the set of his reality show &#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221; She also says she later concluded that he is a racist and a bigot.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, reporters asked Trump during an event at his golf club in New Jersey if he felt betrayed by Manigault Newman. He responded: &#8220;Lowlife. She&#8217;s a lowlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manigault Newman was a contestant on Trump&#8217;s &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221; reality show and later served as a senior adviser to the president.<\/p>\n<p>In the book, she paints Trump as scattered, self-absorbed, misogynistic and insecure.<\/p>\n<p>The book is set for release Tuesday. The White House has already slammed it as &#8220;riddled with lies and false accusations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press purchased a copy of the book ahead of its release. In the book, Manigault Newman claims without evidence that tapes exist of Trump using the N-word repeatedly on the reality show&#8217;s set. She acknowledges she had never been able to obtain or hear the tapes but said three unnamed sources had described their contents.<\/p>\n<p>She alleges that Trump has exhibited signs of a &#8220;mental decline that could not be denied&#8221; and says she went as far as printing out a study linking Diet Coke consumption to dementia and strokes and putting it in his briefing stack.<\/p>\n<p>She also described him as a man who &#8220;loved conflict, chaos and confusion; he loved seeing people argue or fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manigault Newman also alleges that Trump allies tried to buy her silence after she left the White House, offering her 15,000 a month to serve in a &#8220;senior position&#8221; on his 2020 re-election campaign along with a stringent nondisclosure agreement. She says when she turned down the offer, she received letters from Trump&#8217;s lawyers telling her to stay quiet.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgewater, Aug 12 (DIN NEWS) President Donald Trump has one word to describe former White House staffer and fellow reality-TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman: &#8220;Lowlife.&#8221; Manigault Newman claims in an upcoming book, &#8220;Unhinged,&#8221; that Trump used racial slurs on the set of his reality show &#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221; She also says she later concluded that he is a racist and a bigot. On Saturday, reporters asked Trump during an event at his golf club in New Jersey if he felt betrayed by Manigault Newman. He responded: &#8220;Lowlife. She&#8217;s a lowlife.&#8221; Manigault&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16613,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611\/revisions\/16613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}