President Trump is officially declaring war on Omarosa Manigault Newman.
Over the past week, the Apprentice star turned White House aide has popped around the media, spreading harsh accounts of her time in the West Wing. Manigault Newman declared that Trump used the N-word, alleged the president has "mentally declined," and apparently secretly recorded White House Chief of Staff John Kelly in the Situation Room.
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