Omarosa Accuses Trump of Gender Pay Discrimination, Plans Suit Against President: ‘The Numbers Don’t Lie’

Former Apprentice contestant and White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman has requested to join a lawsuit against her former boss over claims of pay discrimination.

In new court documents, Omarosa requested to join ex-Trump campaign staffer Alva Johnson‘s pay discrimination lawsuit to form a collective-action suit. Johnson, who is a woman of color, sued the Trump campaign in February over claims that her white, male colleagues outearned her. She also accused Trump of forcibly kissing her during in an RV outside of a campaign event.

“While I strongly suspected I was subjected to pay discrimination while with the Trump campaign, I have since seen expert analysis confirming this to be true,” Omarosa stated today. “The numbers don’t lie.”

She continued:

“I’ve never witnessed such egregious violations as I did during my time under the leadership of Donald Trump and Mike Pence. I am joining this effort for women and minorities to help level the playing field in the political arena between men and women. It is time for all of us to blow the whistle on the wrongdoings of this campaign.”

Omarosa, who worked as Trump’s Director of African-American Outreach during the 2016 campaign, left the administration in December 2017, where she served as communications director for the White House’s office of public liaison until her dramatic departure weeks before Christmas. Shortly after her exit, she began fiercely criticizing Trump during her appearance on the reality show Celebrity Big Brother and accused him of privately espousing racist views. Omarosa went on to publish a book on her time working for Trump, where she also condemned his personal behavior and policies.

Omarosa’s filing specifically calls out former Trump for President deputy comms director Bryan Lanza — a consultant who earned $62,000 in his three months of campaign work — as someone who had “equal skill, effort, and responsibility as mine” as her but was still “paid more than me.” Omarosa was paid $28,000 for two months of campaign work.

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