Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has said that Hillary Clinton was "robbed" in the 2016 presidential election, describing herself as a "co-conspirator" in what happened.
In an interview with The View on Monday, the ex-Apprentice contestant spoke about her time in the White House and the recordings she made of President Donald Trump while she worked with him.
"You know, Hillary Clinton was robbed," Manigault Newman told The View's panel, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Abby Huntsman. "And I was…a co-conspirator in that robbery."
Speaking about Clinton, Manigault played a recording she said was taken during a meeting with the White House communications and press teams in October 2017, during which Trump spoke about Clinton's links to Russia.
"When Donald Trump got bored, which was very often because his attention span was very short, he would sometimes try to figure out what meetings were taking place in the White House and he would crash those meetings," Manigault Newman said on Monday.
"This was a meeting with the entire communications staff and the press shop. We were meeting to talk about tax reform or his trip to North Korea," she continued.
"He came into the meeting, he sat down, and he starts rambling from topic to topic, none of it makes sense," she said. "And this is in October of last year, so this is…twelve months after the election, and he's still talking about Hillary Clinton."
Manigault Newman has appeared on numerous shows in recent weeks, following the release of her tell-all book about working in Trump's White House, titled Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House, with her role in Trump's team coming to an end after she was fired by chief of staff John Kelly last December.
Explaining that she now regretted taking a job in the White House working for President Trump, Manigault Newman said: "At some point you have to stop a toxic relationship. I was in a toxic relationship with Donald Trump. And I regret that I was so complicit."
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