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Ex-Trump Official Exposes Donald Trump's Strategy


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Donald Trump is wary of "strong" Black women and is using them and other distractions to draw attention away from his legal issues, a ex-ally and employee of the former president said.

Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president after knocking out his last opponent, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, and attaining the required number of delegates. As he embarks on his third presidential campaign in less than a decade and a rematch with President Joe Biden, he is also traversing multiple civil and criminal legal battles.

The former president said in a Truth Social post on Tuesday that he may have to hold a "fire sale" for his assets to appeal the $454 million civil fraud judgment brought against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Legal fees are piling up and Trump's lawyers admitted in a court filing on Monday that Trump can't find an insurance company to underwrite a bond that would cover the judgment against him.

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Donald Trump holds an African American History Month listening session at the White House on February 1, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Omarosa Manigault Newman (left) says Trump feels threatened by "strong" Black women who are... Michael Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images

Trump is using the legal and political arenas to galvanize his base and draw on his grievances because "he believes he is above the law," former White House official Omarosa Manigault Newman told Abby Phillip on CNN Newsnight on Monday evening.

"I mean, all of these cases are by African Americans who were strong enough, bold enough, and who are willing to put themselves out there to bring Trump to justice," Newman said. "This is really probably taking him up and I think one of the things I want to point out to you is that Donald Trump is also very strategic about what he does."

Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign via email and Newman via her website for comment.

.@OMAROSA: "If Donald Trump had the money, he would not be asking for special favors from the judge... But in this case, he's going to have to pay or he just will have his property seized and that is his worst nightmare... The curtain is going to be pulled back. His supporters are... pic.twitter.com/oNYXCA5ZMn

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) March 19, 2024

Newman was likely speaking about James and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who investigated Trump and his allies, which ultimately led to a grand jury indictment for criminal racketeering charges for allegedly attempting to overturn the state's electoral results in the 2020 election, won by Joe Biden.

Willis' personal relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor hired by her office, has been put under a microscope and has been claimed by Trump, his legal counsel and his supporters to have compromised the legal case brought against him in Georgia.

She referenced Trump's recent "bloodbath" remarks during a campaign rally in Ohio, in which he was discussing plans to impose heavy tariffs on Chinese cars manufactured in Mexico and imported into the U.S., pledging to put a "100 percent tariff on every single car" that's imported "if I get elected."

"Now if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the whole, that's gonna be the least of it, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the country, that'll be the least of it," Trump said.

The comments were immediately latched onto by many Democrats, who accused the former president of inciting political violence, even drawing a response from the Biden administration, which called him a "loser" who is "doubling down on his threats of political violence."

Conservatives claimed the comment was misconstrued by Democrats and some media outlets to portray Trump in a negative light.

"[Trump] knew over the weekend, probably as far back as last week, that he could not get a surety company to extend his bond so what does he do?" Newman said. "He creates a distraction by using insightful words, bloodbath, calling immigrants animals.

"He knew what he was going to do and he knew that it would drive the news cycle. He wanted to distract from the fact that he was rejected, not just once, not five times, not 10 times, but by 30 different companies who are not willing to do business with Donald Trump."

Newman gained notoriety after appearing in the first season of Trump's NBC franchise The Apprentice, and in January 2017 joined him in the White House as an assistant and communications director. She was fired in December of that year by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.

In 2018, she published the book Unhinged, detailing her time in the White House and criticizing Trump and other officials in the administration. The release of the book was coupled with multiple tapes secretly recorded by Newman that portrayed turmoil in the administration.

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