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babylonsister

(171,079 posts)
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 07:04 AM Nov 2017

No One Knows What Omarosa Is Doing in the White House-Even Omarosa

Apparently the government is no longer concerned about fraud, waste. and abuse.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-knows-what-omarosa-is-doing-in-the-white-houseeven-omarosa

No One Knows What Omarosa Is Doing in the White House—Even Omarosa
The ‘Apprentice’ star has a top salary and a high-ranking job. But when we spent time with her, it was her wedding she was planning.
Elaina Plott
11.13.17 5:00 AM ET


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Now a senior White House staffer banking the highest recorded salary allowable ($179,700 per year), Omarosa remains a mystery to many members of Washington’s political class and even her White House colleagues.

But on this particular Friday morning, Omarosa simply does not have the time to explain what, exactly, it is that she does. She can give me 15 minutes at most, she says, despite the hour-long appointment. It’s a very, very busy day, she tells me, and asks if I’d rather shadow her for the morning. “You can see me in action,” she says.

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It’s tough to sneak in a question to Omarosa—about her job, her life, her goals, about where exactly we are heading at this precise moment—because we are always walking, quickly and seemingly aimlessly across the West Wing, and in and out of rooms at the EEOB. At some point we are looking for a certain Josh, though we don’t ever locate him, and I never find out why he’s needed. As we knock on the door to one office, she finally muffles an answer as to what we’re doing: “… the faith communities, does anyone need to be blessed…”

Many of her answers go this way, with sentences accomplishing the syntactical feat of never seeming to begin or end. Or they begin and end at the same time: “Everything,” she says when I ask about the contents of her job portfolio right now.

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And while she does pop up in White House press briefings from time to time, there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which ones. During our morning together, for example, she toyed with whether or not to attend that day’s session. “I may go, I may not,” she said.

If Omarosa’s White House sounds less like a storied institution than a personal playground, well, that’s precisely because she intends it to be. As she writes in The Bitch Switch, a woman in control—of her life, of her relationships, of her career—“determines her own rules of engagement for every situation.”

She may be perfect for this administration after all.

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No One Knows What Omarosa Is Doing in the White House-Even Omarosa (Original Post) babylonsister Nov 2017 OP
Pathetic Takket Nov 2017 #1
'another useless eater' Volaris Nov 2017 #24
Is this a case of tokenism? oberliner Nov 2017 #2
token weissmam Nov 2017 #14
No, I don't think... machoneman Nov 2017 #16
Yeah, shes perfect for Trump. rusty quoin Nov 2017 #3
Sick. dae Nov 2017 #4
A reality tv villain Dorian Gray Nov 2017 #5
Professional Sycophant genxlib Nov 2017 #6
And that pretty well sums it up. Raster Nov 2017 #9
Nice work if you can get it: VermontKevin Nov 2017 #29
shaking of the head Angry Dragon Nov 2017 #7
Would be great if she was the Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2017 #8
Ahem . . . that should be "The Honorable Omarosa." Vinca Nov 2017 #10
Wow. Insane. Talk about govt waste Roland99 Nov 2017 #11
Trump's world is just for show. The Potemkin White House. rickford66 Nov 2017 #12
$179,000 dollars for the Bitch ? For what? YOHABLO Nov 2017 #13
You might want to remove that ultra-charged word. CurtEastPoint Nov 2017 #15
It's the title of her book. Atman Nov 2017 #21
Was not aware of that. Yes...context. CurtEastPoint Nov 2017 #23
Think back to that quote of hers GallopingGhost Nov 2017 #17
That we would all "bow down" to him? underpants Nov 2017 #31
Yes. GallopingGhost Nov 2017 #33
Personally, I hope she spends 100% of her time wedding planning. Hortensis Nov 2017 #18
That swamp mgardener Nov 2017 #19
Its draining UP, in total defiance of science and gravity... Volaris Nov 2017 #25
Every moment planning her wedding is less time doing damage elsewhere IronLionZion Nov 2017 #20
Does that mean that the entire Administration can be charges with a RICO statute violation? Volaris Nov 2017 #26
Some of them have already been charged with conspiracy against the US IronLionZion Nov 2017 #30
She will add a shitload of fluff to whatever she is doing, for her resume. nt BumRushDaShow Nov 2017 #22
Whatever she does, it's likely preferable not to know jberryhill Nov 2017 #27
It's bad get the red out Nov 2017 #28
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2017 #32

Takket

(21,620 posts)
1. Pathetic
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 07:15 AM
Nov 2017

Swamp.

She just walks around all day trying to look busy at doing nothing. Your taxpayer dollars at work.

machoneman

(4,007 posts)
16. No, I don't think...
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:38 AM
Nov 2017

it has anything to do with her skin color.

Opinions may vary here but I think it has more to do with her cunning. Trumpenstein I think saw in her long ago a fellow grifter, liar, manipulator.....essentially a female mirror image of himself. I did see many of the old Apprentice episodes and believe me (sound familiar? hah!) she was a stone-cold bitch!

Dorian Gray

(13,498 posts)
5. A reality tv villain
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 07:34 AM
Nov 2017

in the white house....

aimlessly walking by...

making herself feel important is her job.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
8. Would be great if she was the
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:29 AM
Nov 2017

linchpin to the whole Russian collusion deal. I could see in a flash her agreeing to doing it

Vinca

(50,302 posts)
10. Ahem . . . that should be "The Honorable Omarosa."
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 08:41 AM
Nov 2017

Maybe she's got the goods on Don and, like Vlad, is just shaking him down.

GallopingGhost

(2,404 posts)
33. Yes.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 04:32 PM
Nov 2017

I was infuriated when I read it, and even more infuriated that it barely got any media coverage. Anybody who reads that and still refuses to believe that Trump is a dictator, supported by everyone who surrounds him, is stupid as fuck. I'd have to to look it up to quote it verbatim, but it's scary as hell.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. Personally, I hope she spends 100% of her time wedding planning.
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:46 AM
Nov 2017

The time these people use up visiting their children and choosing tablecloths is best for us, and given the situation I don't mind paying for it either. Anything but work.

Volaris

(10,274 posts)
25. Its draining UP, in total defiance of science and gravity...
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 01:39 PM
Nov 2017

Our pResident must be blessed with devine miracle-working Powers.
Said only the same people who think Moore being a pedo is between Moore and Gawd, and not a matter for us godless heathan citizens.

IronLionZion

(45,516 posts)
20. Every moment planning her wedding is less time doing damage elsewhere
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 09:54 AM
Nov 2017

So the taxpayers are actually paying gangster-like protection money at this point

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
28. It's bad
Mon Nov 13, 2017, 01:57 PM
Nov 2017

I look at Trump's people in the Whitehouse and hope that they are just stealing money instead of actually doing something, which would inevitably be worse.

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