Under Biden, Justice Department presses fight against Omarosa

[DonViejo]

A new brief takes an aggressive stance against outspoken Trump critic Omarosa Manigault Newman in a financial disclosure flap.

By JOSH GERSTEIN

02/19/2021 09:26 AM EST

The Biden Justice Department is showing no sign of letting up in a two-year-old legal fight against a former White House aide who became an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump.

While the Justice Department has sought to pause or drop a number of high-profile court battles due to the change in administration, government lawyers are pressing on aggressively with a lawsuit claiming that Omarosa Manigault Newman failed to file a required financial disclosure following her attention-grabbing firing in December 2017.

Manigault Newman has described the suit as a vendetta aimed at her for turning on Trump, calling him a racist and making revealing disclosures about the former president and his top aides. She also wrote a tell-all book, “Unhinged,” which chronicles her dealings with Trump as a contestant on “The Apprentice” and later as his most prominent African American White House aide.

In a new brief filed in federal court in Washington just before midnight Thursday, the Justice Department forcefully defended its position in the case, even tangling with Manigault Newman over the contentious circumstances of her dismissal by then-White House chief of staff John Kelly.

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[JHB]

1. That would be "outspoken Trump enabler turned critic"...

...when, gosh, she suddenly noticed all the bad things Trump did.

[catbyte]

2. She will forever be a POS lackey. No sympathy that she was thrown under the bus.

[madaboutharry]

3. "... failed to file a required financial disclosure..."

What a stupid thing to do.

I don't understand why people don't understand that there are certain things that you just don't mess around with.

[TheRealNorth]

4. Maybe they think they can get her to flip.....

On any really bad shit she knows about.

[getagrip_already]

5. lordy, she HAS the friggin tapes!!!

She was famous for recording meetings. She even inserted herself in high level meetings she wasn't invited to and openly started recording it.

She must have hundreds of hours of evidence........ very valuable evidence many don't want divulged.