Omarosa Manigault Newman is throwing her support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
The former director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison under Donald Trump, as well as a staffer in the Bill Clinton administration, spoke out in an interview with Variety about her political leanings.
After her time on Trump‘s reality TV show in 2004, she returned for two different installments of The Celebrity Apprentice. She later worked for Trump in the White House, but then came after the former President in her 2018 book Unhinged, and described him as a racist and cognitively impaired. The Trump presidential campaign alleged she had violated an NDA, but she won the arbitration in 2022.
“I was very reflective about that when I was writing Unhinged, about how Donald Trump squandered the greatest opportunity he had in his life to be a consequential leader, to shape the direction of our nation and bend it toward something positive. He opted to go to the dark side. That’s why I have no reservation in — I guess I’m saying this for the first time — completely, 100 percent endorsing Kamala Harris for President,” she said.
She also spoke to what it would mean if Kamala Harris wins.
“I hope that Kamala Harris will usher in a new generation of young political leaders. When she wins — if she wins — I hope she’ll usher in fresh energy. Young women should have an opportunity to serve at the highest levels of government. I had a chance to do it twice, which I think is more than enough in anybody’s lifetime. I went into the White House in my 20s — that was when I started with [Al] Gore, and I ended up working in Presidential personnel with Bill Clinton, and then to be able to return back with Donald — I think 20-plus years in Washington is sufficient.”
As far as Trump questioning Kamala‘s race, Omarosa said: “I thought it was beyond the pale — particularly since Donald has, in the past, not been honest and straightforward about his lineage. He was ashamed of his German heritage, and so he made up a story in The Art of the Deal that his family was from Sweden.”
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