Mike Huckabee: ‘Fair Criticism’ to Say Trump Shouldn’t Have Hired Omarosa in the First Place
Mike Huckabee, a strong ally of President Donald Trump‘s, conceded very slightly on Fox Business Network today that maybe POTUS shouldn’t have hired Omarosa Manigault Newman to be in the White House in the first place.
The RNC is going on an attack campaign against Manigault Newmam over her claims about Trump and what happened in the White House, but even some Fox Newsers today are pointing out that the President is at fault here for hiring her in the first place.
Trish Regan was among them, and she spoke today to Huckabee, who said John Kelly sounded “gracious” in the tape of her firing.
He brought up all the praise Manigault Newman had for Trump “up until she got fired,” questioning “Which time was she lying?”
Regan agreed with Huckabee that she’s not exactly the most credible person, but she went on to ask, “Why was she ever there to begin with?”
Huckabee said this in response:
“I think it was a matter of President Trump, then-candidate trump, sort of feeling like ‘Hey, you know, she’s been with me a long time and I’ll give her something to do,’ even though from all indication there wasn’t a whole lot that… there was ever found for her to do, that she could do competently. And that was part of the problem. So you can blame the president on this one and say he should have never hired her. There should have been a better vetting process. Those are fair criticisms, and I’ll be the first to admit that. But her betrayal, her sense of complete dishonesty and disloyalty, is appalling.”
He also found it amusing that people who didn’t like her in the White House are suddenly eating up everything she’s saying.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the book “sad” this past weekend.
Watch above, via Fox News.
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