Fired White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman revealed Sunday her colleagues would use a hashtag referring to the 25th Amendment as a way to note President Trump’s unstable behavior.
“We had a little hashtag, #TFA, which now that I think about it, I’m a little embarrassed to tell you how often when I went through my text chains from the White House I saw the #TFA, 25th Amendment,” Manigault Newman said during an interview with MSNBC. “Whenever he did something that was so insane, and so crazy, and unhinged, when he would flip positions from one hour to the next, we’d just #TFA it and we’d keep moving.”
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Manigault Newman, who is promoting the tell-all book she had published in August, did not confirm whether the hashtag was employed in email but said it had been mentioned more than 100 times in her text messages.
“I went through my texts very closely, and I had to do this while I was preparing to write Unhinged, and I can tell you that it occurred in my text chains with family members, with staffers, with people who were in the agencies more than a 100 times,” she continued. “And I have those text chains. At the time it was kind of a way that we coped, but now it’s not funny, you know, the fact that was something that was discussed.”
Manigault Newman’s comments came after she was asked about conversations in the White House where the topic of the 25th Amendment was reportedly broached. The New York Times published an anonymous opinion piece by an unnamed senior Trump administration official last week detailing how “there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president.”
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Manigault Newman drew ire as she hyped her memoir last month for releasing a series of surreptitiously recorded tapes from her time in the Trump administration. One of the recordings captured White House chief of staff John Kelly dismissing her in December in the Situation Room.
The Trump campaign shortly afterwards filed for arbitration against her, claiming she had broken a nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2016 by making disparaging comments about the president in her book. The campaign is seeking millions of dollars.
