‘Completely fabricated and bulls**t story’: Trump furiously denies using the N-word during Season 1 of The Apprentice
A former producer has come forward that Donald Trump made racist comments during the filming of Season 1 of “The Apprentice,” the show that helped launch his presidential campaign.
Bill Pruitt, who served as a producer on the show, says he was in the room when Trump used the ‘n-word’ and says he’s coming forward with his memories now that he’s finally freed from a nondisclosure agreement that forced 20 years of power.
He says Trump made the long-controversial comment during an executive conference where Trump and the show staff discussed how the season would end months later, amid a final duel between two contestants: one black and one white.
‘Would America buy a victory?’ Trump asked, according to Pruitt’s account.
It’s a key passage in Pruitt’s new article Slate that expresses regret over the way the show scraped away imperfections to portray Trump in a heroic light to make the show work. It was a decision that led viewers to believe that Trump was a “born leader” who became a valuable political asset.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Chueng denounced the new account.
‘This is a completely fabricated and bull**** story that was already proclaimed in 2016. No one took it seriously then, and they won’t take it seriously now, because it’s fake news. Now that Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats are losing the election, they are dredging up old fake stories from the past because they are desperate.”
A former producer of ‘The Apprentice’ claims Trump made racist comments during a meeting in the show’s ‘boardroom’ while weighing in two contestants
He says Trump made “misogynistic and racist” comments during the recordings, including to staff. The article quotes an architect saying Trump charged him half his fee for a golf clubhouse, and quotes the future president saying he has a tiny house on one of his golf courses that “Melania doesn’t even know about,” suggesting that this could be possible. be a ‘personal lair for his sexual exploits’.
“While leering at a female camera assistant or assessing the physical attributes of a female participant for whoever might be listening, he orders a female camera operator out of the elevator where she is about to film him. “She’s too heavy, I hear him say,” Pruitt wrote.
“Another female cameraman, who happens to have blonde hair and blue eyes, draws on Trump comparisons to his own Ivanka Trump. “There’s a beautiful woman behind that camera,” he says to a line of ten different operators lined up in the foyer of Trump Tower one day. “That’s all I want to look at.”
Rumors about the offensive tape have long circulated, but the tape, if it exists, has never surfaced.
Former Apprentice contestant and Trump White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has claimed to have heard the tape, which the Trump camp has long denied exists.
A Trump campaign spokesman denied the story, calling it “bull****”
The show staff and Trump debated whether contestant Kwame Jackson or Bill Rancic, who is white, would prevail
Former participant Omarosa Manigault Newman wrote in her book about talking to a “source” about such a tape. DailyMail.com has contacted Omarosa for comment. The essay also quotes Trump discussing a golf house that then-fiancée Melania Knauss (l) knows nothing about
Bill Rancic won the season and got a job with the Trump Organization in Chicago
The show ended with a final match
Pruitt writes with regret about how the show hyped up Trump (seen here with NBC director Mark Burnett). He says the show set up a fake conference room in Trump Tower, where Trump’s offices had torn down furniture not suitable for TV
The allegations resurfaced as a jury deliberated in Trump’s hush-money trial of Stormy Daniels in Manhattan
But her book only describes hearing about it secondhand from a “source” she called.
“During this phone call, I was told exactly what Donald Trump said – yes, the N-word and others in a classic Trump-goes-nuclear rant – and when he said it. He was put on the mic during production, and there is definitely an audio track,” she wrote.
According to the alleged episode Pruitt describes, Trump made the comment while gaming what would be a final contest between two candidates to run alongside Trump: Kwame Jackson, who is black, and Bill Rancic, who is white.
“The race between Jackson and Rancic should appear close, and this is how we will edit the footage,” Pruitt wrote.
He quotes a Trump executive, Carolyn Kepcher, as saying Kwame “would be a great addition to the organization.”
Trump wants to know why Jackson didn’t fire Omarosa, who turned out to be a problematic teammate.
“I don’t think he knew he was capable of doing that,” Kepcher responded.
“Yes,” he says to no one in particular, “but, I mean, would America buy a victory?”
Producer Bill Pruitt has written an essay criticizing Trump from his time on the set of ‘The Apprentice’
Pruitt says Kepcher’s skin turned bright red and he turned away. Showrunner Jay Bienstock coughs and changes the subject, according to Pruitt’s account.
“None of us are thinking about walking out the door and never coming back. I still wish I had,” Pruitt wrote.
Bienstock and Kepcher did not respond to requests for comment, Pruitt wrote. He says he remembers all the conversations quoted in the article “to the best of my ability” and says they are “not verbatim.”
DailyMail.com has contacted a Bienstock representative.
“So we cheated. We have been scammed. No one heard the racist and misogynistic comments or saw the alleged cheating, the bluffing or their hair blowing in the wind. I have come to believe that those tapes will never be found,” Pruitt wrote.
As for the finalists, both contestants had the right ingredients to succeed, according to Pruitt, who called Jackson and Rancic competent and confident even without the editing boost the “winners” would get.
“In reality, both men deserved to win,” he wrote.