Omarosa Manigault Newman has dropped a few stools in the punch bowl regarding her former boss and (apparently) former friend, Donald John Trump.
She says she has heard tape recordings of the future president using the n-word to describe “Celebrity Apprentice” contestants. He account has been backed up by illusionist Penn Gillette, who says he heard Trump say it in the moment.
She’s written a book about her time as a special White House assistant, a post she left when chief of staff John Kelly fired her. Newman recorded the termination that occurred in the Situation Room, which is a serious breach of national security protocol. That, however, is a whole other story.
But I have to ask: Do we really need to hear these recordings to verify what has been virtually obvious? I mean, consider the following.
- Trump fomented the lie about our first African American president’s place of birth.
- He also challenged Barack Obama’s academic credentials that admitted him to Harvard Law.
- Trump denigrates the intelligence of U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, CNN News anchor Don Lemon and pro basketball superstar LeBron James … all prominent African American public figures.
- The president calls NFL football players protesting police brutality — the players are virtually all black — “sons of bitches.”
- And all the while, he declines to issue a categorical condemnation of white supremacists, Klansmen and neo-Nazis.
Does the president refer to white critics as being less than intelligent? Why in the world did he continue to promote the defamatory lie that questioned President Obama’s constitutional right to seek the presidency? And why can’t the president bring himself to condemn hate groups such as the Klan exclusively? He recently watered down such “condemnation” with that sterile “all types of racism” qualifier.
Again, I ask: Do we really need to hear these recordings to validate what many millions of Americans — including me — believe about the man who’s been elected president of the United States of America?
This individual is a racist.
