Omarosa’s latest claim about Trump and John Kelly doesn’t make much sense

Published August 13, 2018 4:53pm ET



Omarosa Manigault Newman’s new assertion that chief of staff John Kelly is “running the White House” while President Trump “has no clue what’s going on” stands in stark contrast to recent reporting. For Omarosa, it marks another suspect claim in a book tour that’s been full of them.

The former reality star floated the latest of those claims on a major platform Monday morning, the day before her book release, telling Savannah Guthrie of the “Today” show that Trump “doesn’t even know what’s happening in his White House. John Kelly is running this White House, and Donald Trump has no clue what’s going on. He’s being puppeted, and that’s very dangerous for this nation.”

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