President Donald Trump referred to Omarosa as a “dog” in a tweet this morning, saying “Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!”:
When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
That will go over well:
So now we have the president of the United States referring to an African American woman as a "dog." https://t.co/xKs6wsqbxT
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) August 14, 2018
blacks are dogs, the racist didn't bother to dog whistle https://t.co/B1cxc8ftgT
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 14, 2018
Disgusting. https://t.co/qVflIwdkig
— Shaun King (@shaunking) August 14, 2018
The escalation in the war of words from the White House comes after this report from Yashar Ali chronicling the many versions Omarosa has given for the now infamous N-word tape from the president’s days hosting “The Apprentice.”
Ali tweets, “Omarosa has offered so many contradictions on this alleged “N-word” tape it’s kind of astonishing”:
1. Exclusive: Multiple sources tell me that after she was fired by General Kelly, Omarosa told Trump aides that a former Apprentice contestant, Troy McClain, played the alleged "n-word" tape for her while visiting her at the White House last year. https://t.co/l19tHd8Lq0
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 14, 2018
2. Omarosa told people last Dec that McClain visited her at WH that month. That he was nervous and played a tape for her of Trump calling Kwame Jackson the "n-word". I called McClain and he confirmed that he saw Omarosa but laughed when I asked about tape https://t.co/l19tHd8Lq0
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 14, 2018
3. Omarosa also told people that she informed Hope Hicks and General Kelly that McClain told her about the tape. A source close to Hicks confirmed that Omarosa did but AFTER she was fired. Some Trump aides saw this as an attempt to salvage her job. https://t.co/l19tHd8Lq0
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 14, 2018
4. Omarosa described the audio she allegedly heard in detail to multiple sources.
Link to my story: https://t.co/l19tHd8Lq0 pic.twitter.com/4RtdjyR4R7
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 14, 2018
5. Omarosa has offered so many contradictions on this alleged "N-word" tape it's kind of astonishing. She told Trump aides she heard it last December. She told @chucktodd she just heard it. This is what she thrives on…chaos. https://t.co/l19tHd8Lq0
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 14, 2018
The president tweeted last night that producer Mark Burnett said there “are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa”:
.@MarkBurnettTV called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa. I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up. Look at her MANY recent quotes saying….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
….such wonderful and powerful things about me – a true Champion of Civil Rights – until she got fired. Omarosa had Zero credibility with the Media (they didn’t want interviews) when she worked in the White House. Now that she says bad about me, they will talk to her. Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
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