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In her memoir, Becoming, Michelle Obama: Recalls falling in love with Barack Obama. At first she was sceptical of the local hype around him. “In my experience, you put a suit on any half-intelligent black man and white people tended to go bonkers.” His photo had a “whiff of geekiness”, she noted, but once she got to know him, she was attracted to “this strange mix-of-everything man” and felt “a toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder”. Finally, over dinner, he baited her with arguments against marriage before giving a dark velvet box which, instead of chocolate cake, contained a diamond engagement ring. “It took me a second to dismantle my anger and slide into joyful shock.” The marriage has survived extraordinary work pressures. At one stage they sought marriage counselling and, after a miscarriage, underwent in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments to conceive their two daughters. I sometimes blamed Barack’s campaign for the position I was in.” Reflects on being the first African American first lady. “I was ‘other’ almost by default. When she needs advice on any issue, she seeks it from her professional team within the White House.” Writes about two meetings with the British Queen, who remarked, “You’re so tall,” and looked at her Jimmy Choo shoes, asking: “These shoes are unpleasant, are they not?” The Queen gestured with some frustration at her own black pumps. “My husband needed me.

Donald Trump has called Omarosa Manigault Newman “a lowlife” in his first public response to the former White House aide’s tell-all book. In excerpts from the book entitled Unhinged, which were first reported by the Guardian, Manigault Newman claimed the president had used the “N-word” repeatedly, and also used racial slurs to refer to George Conway, the half-Filipino husband of the top White House aide Kellyanne Conway. Omarosa says Trump is a racist who uses N-word – and claims there is tape to prove it Read more Manigault Newman, who had previously appeared with Trump on his reality television show The Apprentice, also said in the book that she believed he was “a racist, a bigot and a misogynist”. The remarks were a break with comments made during the campaign when the former reality television celebrity vowed that those who had criticized Trump would bend the knee to him. “Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump,” Manigault Newman said in an interview with PBS in 2016. At the time, a source familiar with her departure told the Guardian that she had long been uncomfortable defending the Trump administration as the most prominent African American woman in the White House. Her tenure culminated when the chief of staff, John Kelly, summoned her to the White House situation room to fire her. Who is Omarosa, the former Trump aide turned leading detractor? Read more Afterwards, Trump praised Manigault Newman on Twitter, saying: “Thank you Omarosa for your service! I wish you continued success.” On Friday, the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, issued a statement on the book, saying it was “riddled with lies” and condemning Manigault Newman for not praising Trump.

Former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman claims she turned down $15,000-a-month in hush money after she was fired. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business…

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Sen. John McCain’s upcoming memoir will include the senator’s “no-holds-barred” opinions about the 2016 election and the current state of politics. “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations,” was signed by Simon & Schuster in February and is scheduled to be released in April, according to The Associated Press. “Candid, pragmatic, and always fascinating, John McCain holds nothing back in his latest memoir,” according to Simon & Schuster. The book will cover McCain’s life and politics since the senator’s 2008 presidential loss to Barack Obama. McCain has been a vocal critic of President Trump, a theme that will likely appear in the memoir. The feud between the two Republicans, which has been ongoing since the 2016 campaign, devolved into Twitter threats earlier this week after McCain delivered a passionate speech slamming “half-baked, spurious nationalism," which many saw as a veiled attack on Trump. McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer in July and notably returned from treatment to be the deciding vote to kill the "skinny" ObamaCare repeal bill. The book's tone is a change from the originally planned focus on international affairs and McCain’s work overseas.