Fox News’ Outnumbered Hits Trump For Hiring Omarosa: ‘Epic Bad Judgment’
Fox News’s Outnumbered scolded President Donald Trump for hiring Omarosa Manigault Newman, and mocked his claims in a phone call to the former White House official that he hadn’t heard she had been fired.
In a tape, secretly recorded by Manigault Newman and aired on NBC’s Today show this morning, Trump is heard claiming he was unaware that the Apprentice star turned White House official had been fired the day before by Chief of Staff John Kelly.
“Riiiiight,” Fox’s Lisa Kennedy said, after airing the tape of Trump.
“I don’t know if you watched the seasons of The Apprentice that she was on. Very entertaining and made a name for herself by being one of the first reality villains,” Kennedy said. “So I actually am maybe the least surprised person in the world that she took a recording device into that highly secured room.”
Fox News host Steve Hilton said the Omarosa saga “is basically an entertainment story.”
“This isn’t a news story, this is totally inconsequential, it’s not going to affect anything in the real world,” he said. (The news story here probably is that Trump hired a reality TV villain to serve as Assistant to the President, a rank equal to the Chief of Staff, with the maximum salary of $179,700, and she recorded conversations in the White House…)
“I would say first of all, it shows epic bad judgment on the president’s part for bringing her in the first place,” Melissa Francis said. “We all know that.”
She pointed out other examples of Trump hiring the worst people, including Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort.
“Among the very bad decisions that happened early on, hopefully he’s learned his lesson,” Francis said of Trump.
Francis and Kennedy went on to mock Trump for telling Manigault Newman that he didn’t know she had been fired and couldn’t do anything about it.
Trish Regan said that Manigault Newman’s claims about Trump aren’t credible, but noted, “the fact that she’s not so credible gets back to what was she doing there in the first place?”
“I mean, she never, ever should have had that job,” Regan said. “I’m glad that General Kelly did what he had to do in this case.”
“Maybe the president’s intuition fails him occasionally, when he’s making personnel decisions,” Kennedy said. “Look at Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort and Omarosa.”
The panel went on to have an insightful discussion about how Trump’s early supporters were “people way out on the fringe” that they couldn’t even book on Fox News shows to talk about policy.
Watch above, via Fox News.
