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Aug 20, 2018 4 min read

Donald Trump has met his match.

Omarosa Manigault-Newman is famously known for being devious, untrustworthy and vengeful.

She’s now on the warpath, strategically aiming low blows at the man who made her famous.

Omarosa had been a Democrat when she worked in the office of Vice President Al Gore in the 1990s.

She’d been removed from her job after Gore’s office administrator claimed she “was the worst hire we ever made”.

She was transferred to Bill Clinton’s Commerce Department, where she was fired for being called “unqualified and disruptive”.

But it wasn’t until she appeared with Donald Trump on the various iterations of reality show, “The Apprentice”, that her deviousness, untrustworthiness and vengefulness helped her become “the most hated woman in America”.

By 2015, Omarosa became a Republican. The better to join Trump’s presidential campaign, and to follow him into the White House, where she would serve as a Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison.

Of course, Omarosa being Omarosa, she was sent packing after only a year on the job.

Now, seven months later, she’s returned to the public spotlight armed with her new book: “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.”

She’s making the talk show rounds spewing the kind of venom only Omarosa can spew, while aiming attacks directly at her former boss.

Last week, she even handed over several audio tapes designed to embarrass Trump, including one that, she feels, supports her claims that he’s made use of the “n-word.”

Of course, Trump being Trump, he couldn’t allow Omarosa’s attacks to go unchallenged.

He fired off eight nasty tweets in less than 24 hours, that were a signal that Omarosa was clearly getting under his ever-so-thin skin.

But the one tweet that caused the most commotion was when he wrote, “Good work by (Chief-of-Staff) General Kelly for quickly firing that dog”.

By calling Omarosa a “dog,” Trump ignited a day-and-night-long round of heated, cable news arguments over the use of the word to describe a black woman.

Even those pundits who have no use for Omarosa were put into a position of defending her against what they feel is yet another “dog whistle” from a president with a blind spot where it comes to race.

All of this is subtext to what follows.

I DON’T CARE IF TRUMP CALLED OMAROSA A DOG!

What’s more important is how Trump’s people were arrayed to defend him by curiously claiming he calls white people dogs too.

What kind of defense is that?

“The fact is the president is an equal opportunity person, that calls things as he sees it,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during her daily press briefing.

She didn’t stop there.

“He has made a number of comments about plenty of people and to try to single that out to one group is frankly silly, because I think if you did a comparison, he’s probably got a lot of more nasty things out there about some other people,” she concluded with a broad, self-satisfied smile across her face.

Think of that.

She’s just proudly said it’s OK for the President of the United States, who happens to be an “equal opportunity person,” to say “more nasty things” about the people with whom he disagrees.

That’s like saying if he got arrested for bank robbery, and he’d tell the judge, “I’m no bank robber, your honor. I do hold up gas stations. I’m a pretty good car thief, too.”

Katrina Pierson – Trump’s 2020 campaign spokeswoman – appeared with a list of the other non-black people Trump has called a “dog”.

Lynn Patton, a Trump family advisor, and head of the Department of Urban Development’s New York and New Jersey office, also appeared on CNN to clear Trump of being a racist, because she listed five white men he’s called “dogs”.

You have to wonder, when will these folks try to listen to what they’re saying.

That nobody would fault Mr. Trump for defending himself.

But nobody likes a bully.

Omarosa just proved he won.

Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter and anchor for Entertainment Tonight and 20-year TV news veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.