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Omarosa Manigault claims President Donald Trump considered getting sworn in on his book, "The Art of the Deal," instead of the Bible.
- Omarosa Manigault Newman claimed that President Donald Trump knew about the hack of Hillary Clinton's emails prior to their release in the summer of 2016.
- The former White House adviser told MSNBC's Katy Tur that Trump "absolutely" knew about the emails, but did not say how he knew about them.
- She also confirmed that she had been interviewed as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
- Her memoir, "Unhinged," contains a number of unflattering allegations about Trump.
Former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman claimed that President Donald Trump knew about the hack of Hillary Clinton's emails prior to their release in the summer of 2016.
When asked during a Tuesday interview with MSNBC'S Katy Tur if Trump "knew what was coming out before Wikileaks released [the emails]," Manigault Newman confidently responded "yes."
She is currently promoting her memoir "Unhinged," which contains several outrageous allegations about Trump's behavior and dysfunction in his administration.
In July, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian security officers on charges of conspiracy against the US and aggravated identity theft for their alleged hacking of Democratic presidential candidate Clinton's campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Manigault Newman also confirmed to Tur that she had been interviewed as part of the special counsel's probe into possible coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, but would not comment further on the substance of the interview.
"I am going to continue to expose all the corruption that went on in the campaign and in the White House," she said. "I'm going to continue to blow the whistle on all of it."
The New York Times reported in November 2017 that Joseph Mifsud, a highly-connected academic, told Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos in March 2016 that the Russian government had "dirt" on Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails." This disclosure came more than three months before Wikileaks released the hacked emails.
Later reporting revealed that former Trump adviser Roger Stone maintained extensive communications with Wikileaks, which the Mueller indictment accuses of serving as a "hostile non-state actor" in coordinating with Russian intelligence to release the emails with the intent of interfering in the 2016 election.
Manigault Newman did not confirm whether Stone told Trump about the emails, but she called Stone a "shady character" who was "rightfully being investigated." She added that people in the Trump administration "should be very worried" about the Mueller investigation because.
Both Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders have vehemently denied the claims in "Unhinged," with Trump attacking Omarosa's character and credibility in a series of tweets.