Omarosa Manigault signaled in an interview on Thursday that she plans to spill potentially damaging details from her year in the Trump White House.
After her forthcoming Jan. 20 departure was announced this week, Manigault sat down with Michael Strahan on "Good Morning America" to dispel reports chief of staff John Kelly fired her, claiming instead to have resigned.
This would all be fairly inconsequential, though another moment of drama in a consistently dramatic administration, if not for a moment in the "Good Morning America" interview where Manigault indicated she would eventually go public with her experiences in the White House through 2017.
The departing official said there "were a lot of things that I observed during the last year that I was very unhappy with," continuing to indicate at least some of those things are related to racial matters.
"When I have my story to tell as the only African-American woman in this White House, as a senior staff and assistant to the president," Manigault said, "I have seen things that have made me uncomfortable, that have upset me, that have affected me deeply and emotionally, that has affected my community and my people. And when I can tell my story, it is a profound story that I know the world will want to hear."
Manigault, of course, speaks with the flair of a reality television star because she's actually a reality television star. But she's also not much of a Republican, having switched parties only after President Trump announced his candidacy, despite voting for Barack Obama and serving in multiple roles for the Clinton administration.
Her motivations for making these remarks on Thursday, while she's supposedly still employed at the White House, are obviously questionable. But Manigault is a media hungry lifelong Democrat — a "Trumplican," in her own words — who spent nearly a year embedded in an embattled Republican administration. That's not a great recipe for the White House, especially if she's prepared to burn bridges.
When Manigault-Newman feels liberated enough to "tell [her] story," which may or may not even ultimately be accurate, her former colleagues on Pennsylvania Avenue could be in for a wild ride.