OPINION:
For Omarosa Manigault Newman, the hole just keeps getting deeper.
The former and fired White House public liaison has been making media waves in recent days, taking to television to trash-talk the president and press forward, via secretly recorded audio, the idea that Donald Trump is both racist and serial liar.
That the very audio she used as proof of one of Trump’s lies actually showed the reverse is bad enough. On the one hand, Omarosa said Trump knew she was fired, and that he pretty much orchestrated the action. On the other, the widely quoted tape of Omarosa’s telephone discussion with Trump about her firing contains expressions of surprise from Trump himself.
“No,” Trump said on the tape. “Nobody even told me about it. you know, they run a big operation, but I didn’t know it. I didn’t know that … I don’t love you leaving at all.”
Which is it, Omarosa?
But now comes this, as captured in a headline by Fox News: “Omarosa book raises questions on what the top-paid White House official actually did.”
The book “Unhinged” recounts how Manigault Newman supposedly spent busy, busy, busy days schmoozing with top brass at the White House, sticking tight with then-press secretary Sean Spicer as he wove from meeting to meeting and running to and from various offices, “all day long and deep into the evening,” she writes.
But Spicer had a different view.
“I didn’t really interact with her that much,” he said, Fox reported.
Again — which is it, Omarosa?
There’s a theory being quietly floated among some conservative political watchers that says this woman’s whole White House gig, the one where she earned top $179,700 annual salary, was her plot to dig up insider dirt to write a best-seller and score even bigger bucks and more fame.
Not saying the red herring notion applies. But the more Manigualt Newman speaks, the more she saturates the media airwaves, the more suspicious her nature is revealed. The more deceptive her character appears.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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