Omarose Manigault-Newman, the name sound like a fictional character in a 1940’s love novel. But love or hate her, she has gained the “Name” status. You know how we do in our community. When you impact our lives as some people do, we like to call you either by your first or last name only, occasionally we will throw in a letter to make it sound cool. Obama, Oprah, and to some of us old heads, Billy D. come to mind. So I like to think I know her and in this article we going to call her Omarose. I use to think it was Omarosa, but that’s a different story. Now before we get started, I am going to throw it out there. I like many black men, find Omarose to be one fine black woman. Okay I said it. Many of you fellows can’t say it, because you will wind up in the sunken place, with the “A” erased off the “SS.” Believe me, I feel you. I have been there once or twice. It’s okay though, just grunt, roll your eyes and move your head from side to side while you read this.
Omarosa was born in Ohio, the daughter of Theresa Marie (née Walker) and Jack Thomas Manigault Sr. Omarosa’s father was murdered when she was seven years old.After graduating from The Rayen School in Youngstown, she earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism in 1996 at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.She later moved to Washington, DC, to attend Howard University, where she earned a master’s degree. In the 1990s, Omarosa worked in the office of Vice President Al Gore during the Clinton administration. She later stated the job had been “a very difficult environment, because they don’t believe in training. They just kind of throw you in the fire. Gore’s former office administrator, Mary Margaret Overbey, has said Omarosa “was the worst hire we ever made”. She was later transferred to the Commerce Department via the White House personnel office. Cheryl Shavers, who then served as the department’s under secretary for technology administration, has said that at the time, Omarosa was “unqualified and disruptive,” adding, “I had her removed. Omarosa first came to public attention in 2004 after becoming a participant on the first season of NBC’s reality television series, The Apprentice. Stemming from her controversial, blindsiding, alienating, dog-eat-dog, in-your-face and acrimonious tactics teamed with her eloquence and craftiness of game play on The Apprentice (particularly in its boardroom segments), she soon became the “woman America loved to hate” and was named by E! as reality TV’s number one bad girl. Through surprise attacks, cogency, refinement and strategy, she often proves herself a formidable competitor in reality television game shows, such as Celebrity Big Brother. Omarosa has disagreed with the “villain” label, rather believing herself to be “a shrewd businesswoman,” asserting that when a male takes on such characteristics, it is always seen as strong, but when a woman takes them on, it is seen negatively. Omarosa has also claimed the show’s producers have manipulated footage of her to make her look like the villain. She was fired in week 9
On January 3, 2017, it was reported that Omarosa would join Trump’s White House staff, focusing on public engagement. Her specific title was made public the next day as Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison. In her first interview after being named to the Trump White House, she told Megyn Kelly that she was a “Trumplican” and had switched her political affiliation to the Republican Party. She hopes more African Americans will follow her lead and do the same, given how she believes Democrats take African American voters for granted, making empty promises to them. Later that year Omarosa invited the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to visit the White House, signing the invitation as “the Honorable Omarosa Manigault”. Some members of the CBC took exception to her use of the title, which is neither customary for political aides nor typically self-applied. The CBC ultimately declined the invitation. In August 2017, Omarosa was on a panel about losing loved ones to violence at National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans. She got into a shouting match with moderator and fellow panelist Ed Gordon because his questions to her focused on Trump’s policies and not her personal history with losing family members to violence.
On December 13, 2017, the White House announced the resignation of Omarosa, effective January 20, 2018. The United States Secret Service did not deny reports that Omarosa had been forcibly removed from the White House grounds on December 12, but stated the agency was not involved in the termination process or escorting/removing Omarosa from the complex. The Secret Service’s only involvement in the matter was to deactivate Omarosa’s access pass. CNN White House correspondent April Ryan reported that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly fired Omarosa. During Sunday’s television interview on “Meet the Press,” Omarose made some startling revelations. First I did not know it was April Ryan, that put out the report, that she was forcibly removed from the White House. April Ryan is one of my heroes. You might recall that it was Ryan who asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, if she thought it was time for President Trump to resign. Sanders went ballistic, calling the question “absolutely ridiculous.” Soon after Ryan began to receive death threats. For months she had to have a security detail. She reported the episodes to the federal authorities, and went on every news TV show imaginable, to let the racist know, if you come for me, you might not like what you find. Its a shame…I need to do some more research. Maybe April was friends with Ed Gordon, and was watching his back. Who knows. But during the interview on Meet the Press, she apologized. I got the clip below. Watch it with an open mind.
Now I’m going to throw something else out there. I don’t think the President wanted her fired. I think it was his wife who wanted her gone. The President has never been one to mince words. He usually attacks verbally in the weeks before he fires you. If you look back, he never said one bad word about Omarose… ever. All the evil shizz coming out that White House about her was from the President’s staff. Even now, he’s only put out one statement about her. I think there was some wagging tongues in there. I think Omarose got married, thinking that would quell the storm. She bought her wedding entourage to the White House and made it clear that she was getting hitch. But it was too little, too late. I guess she didn’t read the chapter on wives commit adultery too. Well, I believe the President’s wife read it, and could recite it by hard. Not to even mention the President penance locker room talk and beautiful woman. “That bitch has to go!!” ( In my president’s wife voice.) So that’s why, I want her to come to the picnic. She rolled the dice and crapped out. We all have at some time or another. Another thing is Kelly, Chief of Staff set her up. I’m almost sure, they were bugging her phones. She knew she was about to be let go. She probably mentioned it to someone, that if they fired her, she had some taped goods on them. So knowing she taped conversations, they fired her in a secure area, where cell phones or recording devices are not allowed, instead of in his office where everybody else is fired. Who knows, they may have move the sign or took her in an entrance where the sign was easily seen. Her job title may not have afforded her the security clearance to go in there. She probably didn’t know. It’s all conjecture and hearsay. But you know something, so was Donald Trump being elected President.
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