Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman said President Trump’s team has a “crazy list” of “shocking proposals” to distract the media from other stories.
Such propositions typically are “trying to eradicate” former President Barack Obama’s accomplishments, Manigault Newman said during an interview Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“I think what you’re going to see is classic Trump,” she said when co-host Mika Brzezinski talked about the White House fight against subpoenas from Democrats in Congress who are investigating the president, his inner circle, and finances.
“Trump is going to try to create chaos so he can distract from what’s very obvious: That Donald Trump is hiding something from the American people and he knows it’s certainly that will affect himself presidency and keep him from ever being reelected,” she said.
Asked for specifics, Manigault Newman referred to a list of proposals she said originated with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller.
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“Let me tell you, they have these lists of these very shocking proposals,” Manigault Newman said. “It would come up with them even when Steve Bannon was there, and Steve Miller, and they would just keep them on the side. Whenever they needed to throw a hand grenade to blow up the press or take over the front covers of the newspaper, they would pull out one of these very shocking proposals. Many of them dealt with something trying to to eradicate one of Barack Obama’s signature legislative accomplishments or something that he did during his presidency. But they had them in their pocket.”
Manigault Newman didn’t confirm when asked if she had seen the list, but suggested the administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy that led to controversial migrant child separations at the border was on it.
“You know they talked about all of these different things,” she said. “In fact, very early on in their administration, they talked about child separations. We never imagined they would do them, but that was one of the shocking proposals that was on this crazy list that Steve Bannon and Steve Miller came up with.”
Manigault Newman was pushed out of the White House in late 2017. Last year she released a tape of former chief of staff John Kelly firing her, citing “some pretty serious integrity violations.”
While she was promoting her tell-all book Unhinged last fall, Manigault Newman claimed she was likely fired because Kelly knew she was close to obtaining an alleged audio recording of Trump using the N-word.
In August, Trump said Manigault Newman will never work for him again following her recent “vicious” attempts to attack her former colleagues and boss.
Trump’s campaign organization filed for arbitration against Manigault Newman that same month, claiming that she broke a 2016 nondisclosure contract by disparaging the president in her book and revealing private conversations from the White House Situation Room.
