President Donald Trump has told advisers he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to have Omarosa Manigault Newman arrested, one Republican briefed on the conversations has told Vanity Fair.
It is unclear what law Trump believes she broke, though, according to the magazine's Gabriel Sherman.
Trump even disrupted a midterm-election strategy session to rant about what he sees as a betrayal by Manigault Newman, who calls him a racist in her new memoir "Unhinged," which makes use of secretly recorded White House tapes.
"In an effort to change the narrative, the White House announced [Wednesday] that Trump had revoked former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance," Sherman wrote. "But that only ignited a new public-relations crisis.
"A former West Wing official compared Trump's erratic behavior this week to the [public relations] nightmare he created by attacking grieving Muslim-American Gold Star parents during the 2016 campaign. It's a 'death spiral,' the former official said."
A former West Wing official told Sherman that Manigault Newman, who appeared on Trump's reality show "The Apprentice" and was made one of his top aides in the White House before being fired a year later, is "doing everything perfect if her ultimate goal is to troll Trump."
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