Apprentice star and ex-Trump aide Omarosa backs Harris for president [View all]
Source: The Independent
Monday 14 October 2024 21:40 BST
Omarosa Manigault Newman, who rose to fame as a candidate on the Donald Trump-fronted reality show The Apprentice and later held a staff position in his administration, has endorsed his rival Kamala Harris for president.
Manigault Newman appeared in the first season of The Apprentice in 2004 and was well-liked by Trump. She had previously worked in the office of Vice President Al Gore during the Clinton administration in the 1990s, and in 2017 took the position of director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison under President Trump.
Speaking to Variety, she said: “I have no reservation in — I guess I’m saying this for the first time — completely, 100 percent endorsing Kamala Harris for President.” Manigault Newman’s 2018 memoir Unhinged drew on her experiences in the Trump White House to paint a picture of the former president as racist and cognitively impaired.
In the new interview, she told Variety that she believes Trump will be particularly concerned about losing to Harris in November’s presidential election. “Donald Trump has been defeated before, and I think what’s grating on his nerves the most is that this [next] defeat may come at the hands of a woman of color,” she said.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/omarosa-apprentice-kamala-harris-donald-trump-b2629098.html
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