MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman questioned President Trump’s physical and mental fitness in a forthcoming book about her time at The White House and claimed that he is ‘just this side of functionally illiterate.’ In her forthcoming tell-all ‘Unhinged,’ Manigault-Newman writes: ‘I’d come to understand that [Trump] read at an eighth- or ninth-grade level. That’s fine for some, but for the leader of the free world?’ Manigault-Newman goes on to claim that the 72-year-old Trump, whom she refers to as ‘Donald’ throughout the book, ‘has only a surface-level understanding of the content he’s signing into law’ and adds ‘Donald has always relied on his charisma, his street smarts, and trusted advisers to tell him what was in the paperwork’…’Unhinged’, which is due to be released Tuesday, documents Manigault-Newman’s 15-year-long working relationship with Trump — beginning with her infamous stint of the first season of the NBC reality show ‘The Apprentice’ and continuing through her dismissal by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly in December 2017.”
–Samuel Chamberlain, “Omarosa claims Trump is ‘physically ill’, ‘just this side of functionally illiterate’ in new book,” Fox News, August 13, 2018 1:30 pm