Omarosa: Hope Hicks Prepped Trump to Lie in Lester Holt Interview, But He’s Too ‘Mentally Challenged’
Omarosa Manigault Newman appeared on Velshi & Ruhle to discuss President Donald Trump‘s behavior in light of her new book, Unhinged, and of tapes she claims to have of the president.
“I think it’s sad that with all of the things that’s going on in the country that he would take time out to insult me and to insult my intelligence,” she told Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle of Trump’s morning tweets. “This is his pattern with African-Americans. He doesn’t know how to control himself. He has no impulse control, he doesn’t have the tact for the presidency.”
“It’s actually really sad to watch him become unhinged, no pun intended,” she added.
“You’ve known him for more than 15 years and you chose to work for him,” Ruhle reminded Manigault.
“You know, In 2003 Donald Trump was sharp. He was somebody that I aspired to be like. I patterned myself after him when I went on the Apprentice to try to win the opportunity to run one of his companies but the president, he’s different than the person I met back in 2003. He has some serious mental impairment.”
“I’m not a doctor,” she hastened to add.
When prompted for an example, Omarosa referenced wanting to combat the violence epidemic in Chicago and that Trump was on board with the initiative. Then, in a move contradicting months of work, he tweeted insults about Chicago’s mayor.
Velshi transitioned into talking about the infamous Lester Holt interview in which Trump said he fired former FBI director James Comey over the Russia investigation.
“You said that the team prepared him well, then he went into the interview and he said what a lot of people believed to be the truth, that he fired Jim Comey over Russia,” Velshi said. “So was he being prepped to lie?”
“He was being prepped by [former White House communications director] Hope Hicks and the comms team to say that the DOJ had come up with this memo so that they could justify the firing of Comey.”
“I was really, really surprised that he would implicate himself,” Manigault continued. “That’s when you know someone is mentally challenged, when they would even jeopardize their own livelihood by saying things that are just insane at times.”
“They prep him to lie every day,” she added.
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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