It's
recently come out that not only does Omarosa have audio to back up some of the wilder claims in her book
Unhinged, she apparently also has video, texts, voicemails, and hell, for all we know, probably a Flash-based browser game, a VR experience, his D&D character sheet where he gave himself all 18s on every attribute, a PowerPoint presentation, some hieroglyphics, and a confession chiseled out and layered in gold lamé.
She's one of the few people that's been with Trump for over a decade (and has been hired and fired by the same doofus four different times, which has to be in the running for a
Darwin Award), and she's pretty much a black, female Trump. She's lied, squirmed, and scratched her way to media coverage and money, and she isn't afraid to be herself, even when on some points, she's
provably wrong.
So what's the point here? Why didn't she just drop the hammer (and mic) and dump everything she has and say, "See?"
1) She wants to sell books
Even if there are factual, provable errors in the book, she says she all sorts of media (a "multimedia treasure trove") that exonerate her. So long as she strategically drops these, slow drip style like a coffee percolator, then she stays in the news cycle, and she can continue the free publicity tour for her book.
2) She's playing the games that Trump taught her
Regardless of ethnicity, gender, or age, Omarosa is Trump. She wants to see him squirm the same way he made her squirm, and he's squirming more than a can of worms at a bait shop. She wants to do something akin to torturing him by constantly reminding everyone that she has dirt of some sort on him. She's doing a loud version of what many of us believe the Russians and Putin in particular are doing to him in a more behind the scenes fashion. She wants to publicly embarrass him for as long as she possibly can. It's a
Chinese water torture, applied with a firefighter's hose. Just when Trump thinks he's dry, she opens up the nozzle again.
3) She loves the attention
There's no other way to explain being hired and fired by the same dork four times. Anyone close to Trump is going to be in the news, even if for all the wrong reasons, and now that she's out of his inner circle, she needs to feed that attention beast within herself. Exposing some of the more salacious or "juicy" things about him that take place behind closed doors is the perfect conduit, and if she’s got the goods, she’ll get the attention.
4) She's vindictive and selfish to a fault
It's no secret that Omarosa is a, well, she's not a very nice person. Yes, her most recent television appearances have shown a polished and some would say even polite former ex-staffer of this international mess, but there's too much history for people to forget her. It doesn't matter how much money she has now or how much she makes from her book. No amount of money can change your personal history. In this particular case, it's "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", but even that is a tough pill to swallow.
5) We simply don't know what she has
This is the equivalent of a grade school classmate saying, "I know a secret about you" and then walking away. What's the damn secret? Why aren't you telling me? Where did you hear this secret? It consumes you. At lunch, they tell you, "It has to do with X" and now you're getting more and more anxious. You can't concentrate. Your mind wanders around to everything that person may know that you didn't want getting out. In our current political situation, Omarosa is the school classmate and she has a secret (or three or five or whatever) about Trump, the child that this will consume until it starts coming out in public view. He sent out seven tweets (!) trying to discredit Omarosa (who, again, he hired four times),
calling her a "dog" and a "lowlife", exactly like a grade school kid would.
To be clear, I'm not an Omarosa fan, but she cannot be ignored right now. If she really has a "multimedia treasure trove" that proves bits of her book are accurate while at the same time further prove Trump is a lying sack of orange-tinted shit, there's pretty much no way it won't be news.
It's an odd conundrum. An unpopular ex-aide to the worst person ever to live in the White House may end up being the wick that leads to the powder keg. She's unlikeable, but he's unbearable (which sounds like a tagline for some bad mid-season filler sitcom). But she is him. She’s not doing this to “save America” or our way of living. She’s doing it for all the selfish reasons you can think of, the first being money, and the second being attention. It’s the same way he “teases” major policy with, “I’ll tell you next week” and “you’ll find out soon”. It keeps him in the news.
If Omarosa ends up being the straw that broke the GOP elephant's back, then so be it. She's using her ex-boss’s tactics against him, and he’ll drag down the entire circus rather than admit wrongdoing. It doesn't mean I would be happy it was her, but it would be better for the world.