Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman says she is ready to testify to Congress “anytime, anyplace” about what she knows about Russian ties to President Trump’s campaign and offered to appear as a witness at a potential Senate impeachment trial, Yahoo News reports.
“I have the truth on my side as well as a hundred emails and documents and other things,” said Newman in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.”
Asked specifically about serving as an impeachment witness against the president, she replied: “I think I’ve made it very clear that I am fully willing and ready to testify, to cooperate, to help advance this investigation.”
Even though Manigault Newman first floated the idea that she had information relating to the Russia investigation 10 days ago, she said that so far none of the congressional committees have reached out to her to seek her testimony. It remains far from clear, what she knows — if anything — that might be relevant to the Russia probes.
While Manigault Newman insisted she has been “cooperating” with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation since the spring, she only hinted at her role on the last page of her new bestselling book, “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.” In that passage, she wrote that in early 2018 “I, too, received a call from the FBI.” But she has been coy about what that cooperation has consisted of — and what she has to say about Trump’s knowledge of Russian assistance to his campaign. “I don’t want to compromise” Mueller’s probe, Manigault Newman told “Skullduggery.” (She also said she wanted to include more details in her book but her publisher’s lawyers made her take them out.)
But Manigault Newman — who was fired as a White House staffer last December — was more than willing to discuss Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime lawyer who pleaded guilty this week to eight federal felonies, including arranging “hush money” payments to two women in violation of federal election laws. Read More & Listen To Audio Here
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