Omarosa Insists She Joined The Trump Campaign To Help Black People

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Omarosa Insists She Joined The Trump Campaign To Help Black People

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By Rachaell Davis
Nov, 15, 2016
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The former Trump diversity outreach leader claims she meant well.
Omarosa Manigault's recent interview on ABC's 20/20 did little to help her damaged reputation with the African-American community, but the Trump campaign affiliate still insists she actually took the position because she wanted to help Black people.


While she candidly revealed that she lost both colleagues and close friends over the decision to align herself with Trump, the former Celebrity Apprentice contestant wasn't apologetic about it in the least. Instead, she issued an indirect warning, of sorts, to those who didn't stand by her as she moved into Trump territory. “I will never forget the people who turned their backs on me," she said during the interview. The announcement that Manigault would be joining Trump's team earlier this year was mostly met with skeptical reactions from the Black community, given Trump's consistent string of racially insensitive and offensive statements made during his campaign.

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Despite that fact, Manigault still wants the masses to believe that her intentions were more good than bad. "All I was trying to do was help the Black community. It’s been so incredibly hard," she said.

Somewhere along the line, Manigault seems to have missed the memo that a Black woman publicly supporting a man who repeatedly showed little regard for women, people of color, Muslims and people with disabilities throughout the course of his campaign is the exact opposite of doing anything to "help Black communities."

 

[Naha-Nago]

Bitch backed the right horse and did it for the betterment of HER.

HOW she wanted or wants to help the black community remains to be seen.

*two cents *

 

[QueEx]

Bitch backed the right horse and did it for the betterment of HER.

HOW she wanted or wants to help the black community remains to be seen.

She's showing it . . .


Omarosa Manigault:

African-American activists aren't trying ​

hard enough to work with the new administration​

© The Associated Press Omarosa Manigault, political aide and communications director for the Office of Public
Liaison at the White House under President Donald Trump's administration, speaks at the Women's Power
Luncheon of the 2017 National…


NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's liaison to the black community, the former "Apprentice" star Omarosa Manigault, says African-American activists aren't trying hard enough to work with the new administration.

The White House aide delivered the pointed message in an interview with The Associated Press in advance of an appearance Thursday at the annual convention of an activist organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton.

"We're here waiting, willing to work with the community," Manigault said when asked about Trump's moves to slash programs that benefit minorities. "This president wants to engage. It's not a one-way street."

She was more measured Thursday afternoon as she faced hundreds of black activists, who, like African-American voters across the nation last fall, overwhelmingly opposed Trump's presidency.

Several participants refused to utter the president's name in convention sessions, referring to the 45th president only by the number 45. Trump got just 8 percent of the African-American vote last November, according to exit polls.

"I'm ready," Manigault told the crowd as some murmured their disapproval. "I know what I came into, and I ain't never scared."

She insisted she's spent her first 100 days in Washington fighting for the black community. She noted that Trump has met personally with the Congressional Black Caucus and the presidents of historically black colleges and universities.

Manigault called on black leaders to help the struggling institutions as well.

"As I fight for you from the White House, I need you to fight on the outside," she said from the podium of a Manhattan hotel ballroom.

The audience listened to Manigault without interruption. Afterward, from the same podium, Sharpton expressed skepticism.

He noted that Trump's proposed budget includes less money for historically black institutions than the final year of President Obama's presidency. Others previously complained that Trump plans to slash training, education and health care programs that benefit minorities.

Sharpton told Manigault to deliver a message to the new president when she returned to Washington.

"I wish the president would respect us," Sharpton said, dismissing Trump's early black outreach as little more than photo ops. He added, "We, as blacks and women, are in the first 100 days seeing a disaster in Washington, D.C."



http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...h-trump/ar-BBAshR0?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp



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[Naha-Nago]

She's showing it . . .


Omarosa Manigault:

African-American activists aren't trying ​

hard enough to work with the new administration​

© The Associated Press Omarosa Manigault, political aide and communications director for the Office of Public
Liaison at the White House under President Donald Trump's administration, speaks at the Women's Power
Luncheon of the 2017 National…


NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's liaison to the black community, the former "Apprentice" star Omarosa Manigault, says African-American activists aren't trying hard enough to work with the new administration.

The White House aide delivered the pointed message in an interview with The Associated Press in advance of an appearance Thursday at the annual convention of an activist organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton.

"We're here waiting, willing to work with the community," Manigault said when asked about Trump's moves to slash programs that benefit minorities. "This president wants to engage. It's not a one-way street."

She was more measured Thursday afternoon as she faced hundreds of black activists, who, like African-American voters across the nation last fall, overwhelmingly opposed Trump's presidency.

Several participants refused to utter the president's name in convention sessions, referring to the 45th president only by the number 45. Trump got just 8 percent of the African-American vote last November, according to exit polls.

"I'm ready," Manigault told the crowd as some murmured their disapproval. "I know what I came into, and I ain't never scared."

She insisted she's spent her first 100 days in Washington fighting for the black community. She noted that Trump has met personally with the Congressional Black Caucus and the presidents of historically black colleges and universities.

Manigault called on black leaders to help the struggling institutions as well.

"As I fight for you from the White House, I need you to fight on the outside," she said from the podium of a Manhattan hotel ballroom.

The audience listened to Manigault without interruption. Afterward, from the same podium, Sharpton expressed skepticism.

He noted that Trump's proposed budget includes less money for historically black institutions than the final year of President Obama's presidency. Others previously complained that Trump plans to slash training, education and health care programs that benefit minorities.

Sharpton told Manigault to deliver a message to the new president when she returned to Washington.

"I wish the president would respect us," Sharpton said, dismissing Trump's early black outreach as little more than photo ops. He added, "We, as blacks and women, are in the first 100 days seeing a disaster in Washington, D.C."



http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...h-trump/ar-BBAshR0?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp



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I'm not sure how I feel about this one...



*two cents*

 

[QueEx]

HOW she wanted or wants to help the black community remains to be seen.

Think her motives are any clearer now ???

 

[QueEx]

Omarosa is the hero America deserves

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August 14, 2018


There is only one Omarosa.

It is fitting that even in her own lifetime, Omarosa Onee Manigault Newman has joined the ranks of the mononymous. History has had its Voltaires and its Rasputins. It has never yet seen an Omarosa.

Many eminent figures in modern political life are bland technocrats who do not seem destined for historical representation. This is not true in the Trump administration, the most redeeming feature of which is that, like the decadent courts of the Severan emperors or the Manchus in the crepuscular atmosphere of China at the turn of the last century, it offers observers genuine palace intrigue set against a backdrop of inexorable decline. It is, if nothing else, full of characters, of which Omarosa is a wonderful representative example.

Omarosa's origins are obscure. Her father seems to have been murdered when she was very young, as her brother was in 2011. Little is known otherwise of her early life save that she earned degrees at institutions in Ohio and Washington, D.C., and intermittently pursued theological studies. (She currently has faculties for preaching granted by her former Baptist congregation in Los Angeles.) For a time she served on the staff of Vice President Al Gore. In 2004 she appeared in the first season of a reality television program hosted by our now-president. Here she distinguished herself with her cartoonishly fiendish antics; to this day she is ranked among the most ruthless villains in the history of television. Her popularity carried over into Celebrity Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice All-Star and similar programs. Meanwhile she feuded with former cast members, accusing one of employing racial epithets, though she refused at the time to take a polygraph test in support of this claim; in 2013 she was accused of being responsible for the death of her own fiancé, the actor Michael Clarke Duncan, by La Toya Jackson. (Omarosa denied the allegation and threatened to sue.)


By July 2016, Omarosa had joined Trump's campaign as director of African-American outreach. "Every critic, every detractor," she told PBS, "will have to bow down to President Trump. It's everyone who's ever doubted Donald, who ever disagreed, who ever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe." After his victory she quickly joined the president-elect's transition team; among her accomplishments was inviting the NFL luminaries Ray Lewis and Jim Brown to Trump Tower.

In January 2017 she formally joined the White House staff, where she quickly began styling herself "the Honorable Omarosa Manigault," an appellation to which members of the Congressional Black Caucus took exception when it appeared in a letter inviting them to meet the president. Within a year, during which it is unclear exactly what her work involved, she had resigned and been removed forcibly from the White House grounds. A few months later she had already returned to television, as a cast member of Celebrity Big Brother. Now she is the author of a memoir of her political career.


Why do I think that Omarosa will emerge from this bizarre career as a hero of our age?

Simply put, because she is the embodiment of American political life in 2018. Her meteoric rise and fall show us the realities of what the governing process has become since it began to be subsumed into entertainment half a century ago. A president who came up in the consciousness-augmenting world of "reality" television and staked his claim to govern on his ability to behave vilely on cable programs hired one of his apprentices, both literal and figurative, in the hope that she would use her talents in his service. Not long after Trump's inauguration, The New York Times carped that Omarosa had only been given a job because of her "loyalty"; she was, the paper lamented, "one of the few with walk-in privileges for the Oval Office." How did she repay the man who so prized her faithfulness and ability? She made recordings of seemingly everyone around her, including the commander in chief, for revenge and profit alike, recordings so valuable that even an attempt to bribe her with a $15,000-a-month make-work job on the president's re-election campaign could be swiftly rejected in favor of her freedom to speak and publish.​

It is far too early to say what, if any, truth there is in Omarosa's various claims. Except, that is, for those claims supported by her recordings — of which she insists there are many more awaiting release. By double-crossing the crass man who valued her because she seemed to exhibit many of his own base qualities she has revealed to us the horizons, such as they are, of meaningful political activity in our age.



http://theweek.com/articles/789958/omarosa-hero-america-deserves


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