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Omarosa: Leaving White House like being ‘freed off a plantation'
Omarosa Manigault-Newman's time in the "Celebrity Big Brother" house may be just about up, but she still has plenty of tea to spill on her time in the White House.
Omarosa, who served as the Office of Public Liaison's director of communications, compared the freedom she felt leaving President Trump's administration to being freed from a plantation on Saturday's episode.
"I'm emancipated. I feel like I just got freed off a plantation. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus," she said in a clip that aired Saturday but was filmed on her sixth day in the house.
"I'm thinking of writing a tell-all sometime. He's going to come after me with everything he has. Like, I'm going up against a kazillionaire… but I have to tell my truth. I'm tired of being muted… I've been defending somebody for so long. Now I'm like, 'Yo, you are a special kind of f--ked up.'"
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Omarosa continued to reflect on the prejudices she faced in the White House to fellow houseguest Shannon Elizabeth, who asked why she left in January.
"I was literally the only African American woman in the senior staff," she said. "I'm going to meetings with people who are ignoring me, or because I was black, people wouldn't even talk to me. And it wasn't just the black thing — it was the woman thing."
Omarosa also said the President trusted her immensely, which angered her male colleagues.
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The polarizing star added that many of her male colleagues disliked her because of the amount of trust Trump had in her.
"These men felt like, 'We don't need any woman telling us what to do.' And then here's the President going, 'Did you ask Omarosa what she thinks?' So then they hated me more," she said. "So I'm trying to figure out… Why didn't you tell me about the welfare reform meeting? I'm the one that was on welfare."
The television personality — who formed a bond with Trump as an early standout on "The Apprentice" — also offered insight into the President's tweeting habits.
"What he does is tweet something controversial and the news distracts and spins and then…over," she said. "Donald will tweet something, insult somebody's face. The press will be on that for three days, and we push through 16 unfunded mandates and nobody would notice."
Omarosa, 44, added that the White House has a designated Twitter and Facebook rep, though they are essentially powerless, as the President often tweets early in the morning.
Omarosa compared leaving Trump’s White House to being freed from a plantation.
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"He's up in his underwear or something at four in the morning. Who's gonna monitor that? The bad tweets happen between four and six in the morning," she said. "Ain't nobody up there but Melania (Trump). She walks around like this, 'He can do whatever he wants.' She ain't saying nothing."
The White House announced in December Omarosa had resigned from her position, but sources have said that she was ousted by Chief of Staff John Kelly and escorted out of the White House.
She's been chock full of gossip tidbits during her stint in the "Celebrity Big Brother" house, and last week laughed off the idea of ever having an affair with Trump.
She did, however, hint that the idea wasn't so preposterous to a certain someone in Washington.
"There's somebody in the White House that's sleeping around with everybody, but she is not me," she said. "I've never had to do that."
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