Donald Trump allegedly used racist terms to describe George Conway, the Filipino American husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.
George Conway dismissed the allegations on Friday that Trump had privately made racist comments about his Filipino roots.
The Guardian reports that Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former senior White House aide and ex-reality TV star, reportedly heard Trump calling Conway a “flip” and a “goo goo,” racial slurs for Filipinos like Conway, whose mother is from the Philippines.
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The former Trump advisor will have a tell-all book released next week about her time with Trump since she was a contestant on his reality show The Apprentice including her tenure in the White House. In her stint on The Apprentice, she became one of the “villains” for her lies and scheming which made her stand out from the other contestants. She became known simply by her first name, Omarosa.
In her upcoming book, she describes Trump’s angry reaction to a article written by George Conway, a lawyer who removed his name from consideration for a top Justice Department post.
The Guardian writes:
Would you look at this George Conway article?” she quotes the president as saying. “F**ing FLIP! Disloyal! F**king Goo-goo.”
Both “flip” and “goo-goo” are racial slurs for Filipinos.
George Conway called Omarosa’s allegations “not credible” and “ridiculous” in a tweet on Friday morning.
The allegation is not credible, and indeed is ridiculous, particularly in light of the timing of her departure from the White House—December 12, 2017. It’s absurd all around.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 10, 2018
“Instead of telling the truth about all the good President Trump and his administration are doing to make America safe and prosperous, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a written statement. “It’s sad that a disgruntled former White House employee is trying to profit off these false attacks.”
Omarosa, who was unceremoniously dismissed from the White House staff in December of 2017, describes in her book that she slowly came to realize that her boss was a racist.
Omarosa Manigault Newman’s book — titled “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House” — is set to release on August 14th.
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