Omarosa Manigault Newman writes in her new book, Unhinged, that Donald Trump is a “racist” who has used the “N-word” repeatedly, the Guardian reports.
She says Trump was caught on mic uttering the taboo racial slur “multiple times” during the making of his reality TV show The Apprentice and there is a tape to prove it.
She also claims that she personally witnessed Trump use racial epithets about the White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s husband George Conway, who is half Filipino.
This looks interesting: The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler.
“The story of Andrew Jackson’s improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possible.”
“Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell the Daily Beast that Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the infamous former Apprentice star who followed Trump to the White House, secretly recorded conversations with the president — conversations she has since leveraged while shopping her forthcoming ‘tell-all’ book, bluntly titled Unhinged.”
“For months, it has been rumored that Manigault had clandestinely recorded on her smartphone ‘tapes’ of unspecified private discussions she had in the West Wing. Audio actually does exist, and even stars Manigault’s former boss.”
“The mere existence of such recordings represent a dramatic betrayal of trust by a one-time Trump confidant who has since abandoned years of professed loyalty to the president and has apparently decided to profit off her years of closeness to Trump.”
Coming soon: The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right by Max Boot.
“Warning that the Trump presidency presages America’s decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent.”
Out next month: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley.
“A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history.”
Out next month: Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation by Ken Starr.
This comes 20 years after the Starr Report was published.
A must-read, coming soon: The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis.
“What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?”
The Washington Post announced a new book coming in October: The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and The Subversion of American Democracy by Greg Miller.
Said Miller: “It’s really bewildering. It’s not just the story — which is the craziest and most complicated that any of us have ever seen — but the fact that while covering it, our institution, journalism, is under siege in a way that none of us has ever experienced.”
Coming soon: Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
“Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)—to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others.”
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman writes in her new book that she realized something was wrong with President Trump during his interview with Lester Holt last year, according to excerpts obtained by the Daily Mail.
Said Manigault-Newman: “While watching the interview I realized that something real and serious was going on in Donald’s brain. His mental decline could not be denied.”
She added: “Many didn’t notice it as keenly as I did because I knew him way back when. They thought Trump was being Trump, off the cuff. But I knew something wasn’t right.”
Hillary Clinton she was working with director Steven Spielberg to bring a book about women’s fight for voting rights, The Woman’s Hour, to television, Reuters reports.
Spielberg said that Clinton would be one of four executive producers on the show, which is being developed for a cable channel or a streaming platform.
Just out: How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections by Colin Delany.
More details on Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, Fear: Trump in the White House.
Politico: “According to half a dozen former administration officials and people close to the administration, Woodward was never officially granted access to the White House or to the president, and the communications department did nothing to help him in researching or writing his book.”
“The result is what often happens in Trumpworld: Senior officials acting as lone wolves concerned with preserving their own reputations spoke to Woodward on their own – with some granting him hours of their time out of a fear of being the last person in the room to offer his or her viewpoint.”
Said one former official: “It’s gonna be killer. Everyone talked with Woodward.”
Coming soon: Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward.
Washington Post: “The expected tenor of the book is underscored by its unsettling cover, an extreme close-up of a squinty-eyed Trump depicted through a gauzy red filter. The hush-hush project derives its title from an offhand remark that then-candidate Trump made in an interview with Woodward and Post political reporter Robert Costa in April 2016. Costa asked Trump whether he agreed with a statement by then-President Barack Obama, who had said in an Atlantic magazine interview that ‘real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.'”
“At first Trump seemed to agree, saying: ‘Well, I think there’s a certain truth to that. . . . Real power is through respect.'”
“But then he added a personal twist: ‘Real power is, I don’t even want to use the word: Fear.’”
“A black man yelled at former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a bookstore and accused Spicer of calling him a racial slur when they were students at a prep school decades ago,” the AP reports.
Said the man: “You don’t remember that you tried to fight me? But you called me a (N-word) first.”
A security guard led the man away as he kept talking: “I was 14 then. I was a scared kid then, Sean. I’m not scared to fight you now.”
The Newport Daily News has the incident on video.
“Just attended the largest book launch party in history. Period.”
— Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), on Twitter, about Sean Spicer’s book event last night.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Wonk Wire, Political Job Hunt and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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