("Stream-of-consciousness") commentary, temporarily posted. No affiliation/association here with the post's subject persons. Note: I have not (yet) read Ms. Manigault Newman's soon-to-be-released book:)
(8/13/18 preface: OK, this is going to be a reactive, rambling, (kind-of) "stream-of consciousness" post today. It's one person's opinion/impressions about someone else.... who probably brings out strong reactions from (many) others.
So please: Take it or leave it. (I.e., what follows.) It's your choice:)
(Commentary follows.
Plus a reminder: Per below,
Donald Trump clearly cannot handle anyone "standing up to him" -- especially an "underling"(and/or a black person). (Update:
Also including this separate, '
'tin-pot dictator'' (re-)action,
today (8/15/18 news story link).) However, (I'd suggest that) the thin-skinned president probably doesn't completely mind the "Omarosa sideshow"
(if you will), as it helps
distract from damaging actions his regime is pursuing.
E.g.,
dismantling environmental protections,
assaulting U.S. national parks, mounting
ill-conceived tariff actions,
cozying-up with Russians; and
more...:)
(Commentary, previously posted:)
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*OMAROSA*
...that remarkable name -- for starters. No one (...with at least a passing familiarity...) doesn't have some kind of reaction upon hearing it.
Gain a bit of background detail via the following link ...if you care to. (BTW, one 'hint': She's generally more accomplished than many of us....:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omarosa_Manigault
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Some additional background:
(Note: Occasional "bad" language in the video below:)
YT video
link. No video/content copyright claimed or intended.
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(By Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons. (No affiliation. No (blog) endorsement expressed or implied.))
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(Returning now to the present day...:)
Rightly or wrongly, Omarosa recorded Chief-of-Staff General John Kelly in the White House 'Situation Room'!!! (Assuming that the published recording is legit.)
In hindsight: Who was the real 'boss' there (i.e., in that meeting).....??
(Comment, rhetorical questions:) Why did Kelly take her to the Situation Room to begin with? They
(apparently) have (just?) an "honor" system about dropping-off personal cell phones -- for the "ultra-secure" Situation Room??? (Assuming that a cellphone was what Omarosa used to record, though that ultimately doesn't matter much here (either)...A (surreptitious) recording appears to exist.)
Aside: I have technical training but am not a cell phone security or detection expert at all. But just some quick,
cursory research on Google yields the following (unaffiliated, linked) articles covering cell phone detection devices/methods. ..Which
seem readily available.
(Some "secure" room,
eh?? Omarosa (apparently)
got-around the super-security!! Update: Apparently
not "
super-security" (news article link)
....):
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2036795/detector-finds-smuggled-cellphones-even-without-batteries-or-sim-cards.html
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-detect-hidden-cell-phones-with-your-own-cell-phone
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/206472.html
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---> 8/13/18 update: Uh-oohhh. "Someone" -- i.e.;
basically: her long-time (TV) mentor and champion --seems to be noticing↓..... Seems a little
peeved.... (Likely also (unintentionally(
?)) boosting Omarosa's book sales even further..:)
(Counter-example: A 2013 Donald Trump tweet. (Copy:))
8/14/18 update: Predictably-"unhinged" Trump has now 'Twitter-attacked' Omarosa seven times...so far. (Once again demonstrating the opposite of (stable) leadership....FWIW, Omarosa knew/predicted that she would be attacked.)
Excellent analysis via the (unaffiliated) link:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/donald-trump-omarosa/index.html
8/16/18 update (copy, no affilation):
..8/18/18 update: (Omarosa reportedly has videos, too...:)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/omarosa-unhinged-trump-video.html
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(Previously written:)
8/13/18 video: Today's interview with Savannah Guthrie of '
TODAY'.
Calling attention here to Omarosa "borrowing" - or at least displaying how she's perhaps learned - a few "hostile"(?) interview "tactics" from Donald, her former boss.
E.g.: Repeatedly interrupting the interviewer, counter-attacking, attempting to control/limit the questioning, feigning being insulted or put-upon, not directly answering questions (repeatedly), aggressively inserting her own narrative and interpretations of events, hawking something she's selling. (And so on..:)
YT video
link. No video/content copyright claimed or intended.
(Partial example↓, for comparison:)
(YT video
link. No copyright.)
BTW: Yes, Omarosa↓: Donald Trump (apparently - video snippet may not include entire context) is a smarmy weasel who will say
anything to suit himself/protect himself/further himself -- at any and all times:
(YT video
link. No copyright.)
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(Concluding section, for now:)
This (latest Trump regime) saga is not over, of course. (Insert: Can you imagine
anything like this -- and other scandals (or
worse) -- occurring in the Obama administration? What would the (Republican) consequences have been, if they had..?? (Which they did not, (
at least in comparison)..))
More developments are likely to come...
OMAROSA....Almost-always seems to be some kind of fire-storm...or at least 'fire-drill'... around her....regularly of her own making.
Comment:
With our popcorn handy.........
we'll see what further transpires. FWIW: This observer is having a
hard time 'buying into' Omarosa's 180-degree revelation/
epiphany-of-understanding that Donald Trump is a: racist/misogynist/unhinged liar/bigot (etc.)
:
YT video
link. No copyright.
(↓Video clip from 2016:)
(YT video
link. No copyright.)
