'You want me to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?': Omarosa claims Trump slammed the idea of replacing Andrew Jackson's face with Harriet Tubman's
- Former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in her new book that President Donald Trump balked at the idea of putting abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill.
- Manigault Newman wrote that Trump, when shown an image of Tubman, said "You want me to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?"
- Trump has previously spoken out against removing former President Andrew Jackson's image, and the administration has yet to commit to featuring Tubman.
- The White House has called Manigault Newman's book "riddled with lies and false accusations".
Former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in her new book that President Donald Trump balked at the idea of putting abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
In "Unhinged," Manigault Newman describes the deliberation over a new figure on the twenty-dollar bill. She wrote that Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin told her, "it's not something I'm focused on at the moment."See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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