Omarosa Manigault Newman, who worked for Trump after being a reality show star and then went back to reality television after being fired, stated on CBS’ “Celebrity Big Brother” on Thursday that she wouldn’t vote for President Trump again “in a million years, never.” Newman said she found it hard to separate her long-time loyalty for Mr. Trump when she worked in the White House.
“If we become friends, you’ll see how loyal I am, like maybe to a fault it’s just been so incredibly hard to shoulder what I shouldered for those two years because I was so loyal to a person. And I didn’t realize that by being loyal to him, it was going mean I was going to lose 100 other friends.”
Newman had a tumultuous tenure in the White House and a dramatic departure. At the end of 2017 she was fired by chief of staff John Kelly at the end of 2017.
Major Garrett the CBS News chief White House correspondent stated that Newman made an appeal to Ivanka Trump after being fired, but was ignored.
Following that Newman then went to the White House where she tripped the alarms. Kelly upon discovering her became angry, and had her escorted from the building.
A former White House official who didn’t reveal their name told CBS News at the time Newman had always been a problem. Even since before the inauguration. She had direct access to the president, however, there were many people who tried to stop her from being employed.
Although she was awarded the Office of Public Liaison she was given an “Assistant to the President” title. Reince Priebus the former holder of this position also wanted her fired.
Newman said working in the White House was “100 percent” worse than being on a reality show because “this wasn’t a game show.”
“I made choices, I just have to live with them,” she said tearfully.
Newman said she chose to work at the White House because she saw it as a “call of duty.”
“I felt like I was serving my country, not serving him,” Newman said. “I was haunted by tweets every single day, like what is he going to do?”
She said she tried to be “that person” who spoke with Mr. Trump, but felt like she was pushed away she added that she doesn’t know who is advising the president.
“It’s not my circus, not my monkeys I’d like to say not my problem, but it’s bad. Not going to be okay it’s so bad.”
Asked about if she would vote for Mr. Trump again, Newman said “god no. Never. Not in a million years, never.”
Some of Newman’s comments came out on Thursday in the show’s promo. Raj Shah the White House deputy press secretary in response replied that they take her claims “not very seriously.
After she was fired, Mr. Trump thanked her for her service in a tweet.