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Can't even do a library right

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A new tape released by former White House aide http://origin-nyi.thehill.com/people/omarosa-manigault-newjman appears to show several other aides discussing an alleged tape on which President Trump used the N-word.

In the recording obtained by CBS News, Manigault Newman and other aides appear to discuss how to handle fallout from the tape, allegedly from Trump's time as host of "The Apprentice," if it were released.

The recording released by CBS appears to be of an internal call during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
 
REALITY TV SHOW LOWLIFE
https://claytoonz.com/2018/08/14/reality-tv-show-lowlife/

Donald Trump called Steve Bannon “sloppy” and says he “lost his mind.” He accused Michael Cohen of engaging in illegal activity while his lawyer says he’s a liar. Now, he calls Omarosa Manigault Newman “wacky,” a “lowlife,” and just this morning, a “dog.”

What do these three people have in common? They all worked for Donald Trump, who used to give them high praise. Now, they’re almost as much of an enemy as the free press.

Omarosa is about to release a book titled “unhinged,” which describes Trump as such. It also accuses the White House of coaching him to lie every day, and that he’s a racist. I was surprised too. He needs to coaching to lie?

White House spokesgoon Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasted the media for giving Omarosa credibility, despite not giving it to her in the past when she worked in the White House….you know. When the Trump administration was giving her credibility.

The press is not giving Omarosa credibility, just lots of coverage. They cover Trump 24/7 too yet the White House complains that it’s all negative.

Sanders is right about one thing though. Omarosa shouldn’t be believed just from her word. She’s a liar who will do and say anything to be in the spotlight. She’s contradicted herself multiple times in the past, and even as recently as this week. While she attacks Trump now, she once sang his praises, even after supposedly knowing for a fact that he’s a racist. In fact, she was hired by him four times.

Which brings us to Trump and the White House’s credibility. Trump hired her four times. Why did he hire a “wacky dog” four times? Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah attempted to discredit Omarosa months ago by saying they have fired her four times.

First, the White House did not fire her four times. Donald Trump fired her four times, yes. But, the White House is not an extension of the Trump Organization. Second, while Omarosa is indeed a liar, so is Donald Trump.

Omarosa also has tapes. We have heard the one of Chief-of-Staff John Kelly firing Omarosa and issuing a veiled threat that she better play nice because it would be horrible if she faced “pretty significant legal issues,” which is just a tad more professional than threatening to break her kneecaps. We’ve also heard the tape of Trump pretending to be surprised and upset she was fired. Omarosa claims she’s heard a tape of Trump using the N-word, but we haven’t heard it yet and maybe we never will, if it even exist.

The thing is, do we really need a tape to believe the man who praised Nazis, described nations where brown people come from as “shitholes,” throws brown babies in jail, calls Mexicans “rapists and murderers,” promulgated the birther campaign, pardoned racist sheriff Joe Arpaio, and called for the death penalty for exonerated black and Latino teenagers, is a racist?

If the tape actually does exist, will it change anything? Trump supporters will deny it, excuse it, defend it, and then be proud of it. If mocking a handicapped reporter and saying a POW wasn’t a war hero, then why should using the N-word discourage his base? At the most, it’ll just be another confirmation that for everyone who supports Trump, racism is not a deal breaker.

Trump tweeted that he wanted Kelly to work it out with Omarosa because she said “GREAT things” about him. Great things? How’d she not land a cabinet position? He also tweeted, “I know it’s “not presidential” to take on a lowlife like Omarosa,” but that ship sailed a long time ago.

One thing we should all agree on is that the White House is no place for a reality TV show lowlife.

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NEWSPAPERS STRIKE BACK
https://claytoonz.com/2018/08/13/newspapers-strike-back/

This Thursday, over 70 newspapers (so far) will run coordinated editorials defending a free press from Donald Trump’s attacks that the media is the “enemy of the American people” and “fake news.” It’s being coordinated by The Boston Globe.

I probably have several newspaper clients participating in this, but one that’s definitely on board is the Sarasota News Leader. They asked me to do a cartoon on the subject they could run with their editorial this Thursday. It’s something I wouldn’t miss being a part of.

To me, an enemy of the American people and democracy is one who attacks a free press. A leader who believes an informed public is dangerous is not a leader for a free nation.

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The ongoing publicity tour by former senior White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman, once designated as one of the “nastiest TV villains of all time,” is the culmination of the questionable hiring choices made during the early days of the Trump White House. Manigault-Newman has made a media splash by releasing multiple secret audio recordings of the president and his associates, some of which were made during her time at the White House—and one of which was apparently conducted within the Situation Room, a serious breach of security protocol.

In promoting a new memoir chronicling her time working for the president, Manigault-Newman has revealed that shortly after she was fired from the White House, she was https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ex-aide-says-she-refused-hush-money-pens-white-house-memoir-calling-trump-racist/2018/08/10/95b65e42-9ca5-11e8-b55e-5002300ef004_story.html?utm_term=.750e4d470185 (allegedly offered the equivalent of a “hush money agreement”): she would be immediately hired onto the president’s re-election campaign and paid $15,000 a month, and would sign a non-disclosure/non-disparagement agreement that would encompass https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/proposed-consulting-agreement-and-companion-agreement-that-omarosa-manigault-newman-said-the-trump-campaign-offered-and-she-declined-after-she-was-fired-from-her-white-house-position/3166/ (not only the campaign but also her time at the White House).

This is not the first time reports have surfaced about the administration’s use of agreements. In March 2018, Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post wrote that https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-nondisclosure-agreements-came-with-him-to-the-white-house/2018/03/18/226f4522-29ee-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.ecea43e109fe (the president pressured senior White House staffers to sign additional non-disclosure agreements) (NDAs)when they joined the administration, similar to the infamous NDAs upon which he relied throughout his time in private business.

There is understandably a bit of confusion regarding to what extent federal employees can be subject to NDAs once they leave government service, and the current White House does itself no favors by continuing to give vague and non-descript answers on the subject. But contrary to what the president might think, he lacks any authority to censor the unclassified communications of former federal employees.
 
Yeah he's a billionaire. Wish I was that dumb.


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