Omarosa rips Trump for not acting to reduce violence in Chicago

Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman tore into President Trump late Tuesday, listing off multiple instances in which she said he was slow or failed to act to help struggling communities. 

“We have a big responsibility to actually fulfill all of the campaign promises that we made,” Manigault Newman said on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”

“I made a long list … of all the things he said he would do,” she added.

{mosads}“He said he would help to reduce the violence in Chicago and, as we know, having seen 600 murders over this weekend, that he has done nothing and he has refused to even travel to Chicago,” Manigault Newman said, dramatically exaggerating the number of people killed two weeks ago in the city.

The actual number of people killed was a dozen, with more than 60 others shot and injured.

Manigault Newman, who was on the show to promote her new book, “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House,” also pointed to the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Mich., and conditions in Puerto Rico as examples in which she said Trump has not provided assistance he said he would.

Trump has in the past threatened to send in federal officers to manage Chicago’s crime and violence. He renewed his attention on the matter last week, when 12 people were killed and 62 people were injured in a surge in gun violence between Aug. 3-6. 

“That’s bad stuff happening and probably I guess you have to take from the leadership. That’s bad leadership,” Trump said during a roundtable on prison reform. “There’s no reason in a million years that something like that should be happening in Chicago.”

Manigault Newman has been making the rounds to promote her new book, in which she alleges Trump is a racist and misogynist. She claims that Trump was caught on tape using the “N-word” repeatedly on the set of “The Apprentice.”

Trump has lashed out in response to the new memoir, calling the woman who was once his administration’s highest ranking African-American official a “lowlife,” “wacky and deranged” and a “dog.”