White House Sought Suit Against Omarosa Manigault Newman After News of Her Memoir

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — One day after an announcement in 2018 that President Trump’s former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman had written a negative tell-all memoir, the White House asked the Justice Department to open an investigation into a seemingly unrelated paperwork dispute that led to a government lawsuit against her, according to documents and interviews.

The Justice Department has taken aggressive legal actions against a number of former Trump aides who wrote unflattering memoirs, prompting accusations that administration officials were abusing their power over law enforcement to enact retribution.

The timing of the White House’s referral to the Justice Department of its dispute with Ms. Manigault Newman over a missing form suggests that the eventual lawsuit against her may be part of that pattern — even though the case, on its face, is not about her scathing August 2018 book, “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.”

“This was weaponization of a lawsuit by the White House for retaliation for writing a book — for saying offensive words about Mr. Trump,” said John Phillips, a lawyer for Ms. Manigault Newman.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us/politics/omarosa-justice-department.html

[SunSeeker]

1. The White House should not be telling the Justice Department what investigations to open.

[duforsure]

2. trump's using the DOJ and Barr for himself

Not the American people , and by letting this happen the DOJ becomes his personal weapon. Republicans in Congress allowing this makes them complicit, and accountable.