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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProducers sitting on footage that includes film of Donald Trump using the n-word?
Jezebel @JezebelProducer says there's footage of Trump saying the n-word. http://bit.ly/2d0Ya13
Emmy Award-winning producer Chris Nee alleged Sunday on Twitter that Apprentice producers are sitting on footage that includes film of Donald Trump using the n-word.
Nee made the comments in response to a former producer on the show, who tweeted Saturday that Trump has been caught on camera saying far worse.
Bill Pruitt @billpruitt 3h3 hours ago McAllen, TX
As a producer on seasons 1 & 2 of #theapprentice I assure you: when it comes to the #trumptapes there are far worse. #justthebegininng
According to Nee, who says she heard from producers/crew on the show, one of those far worse things is Trump saying the n-word. She tweeted the allegations at Mark Cuban, citing a $5 million penalty fee for leaking footage apparently included in most of Apprentice executive producer Mark Burnetts contracts...
Chris Nee @chrisdocnee @mcuban
the price is 5 million to cover the penalty fee. And we all get to hear him use the N word from what I hear https://twitter.com/billpruitt/status/784872190587998209 12:35 PM - 9 Oct 2016
Chris Nee @chrisdocnee
I don't have the tapes. I've signed a Burnett contract & know leak fee is 5 mill. Hearing from producers/crew N word is the "much worse".
12:46 PM - 9 Oct 2016
Ben Smith @BuzzFeedBen 60m60 minutes ago
NEW: Burnett is pro-Trump and has made clear to his teams that he will sue anyone who leaks"
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Producers sitting on footage that includes film of Donald Trump using the n-word? (Original Post)
bigtree
Oct 2016
OP
Wow, he's is such a revolting piece of crap. How any person of color could cast
smirkymonkey
Oct 2016
#11
Not sure I want that one released. He's already losing, and this would really hurt.
lindysalsagal
Oct 2016
#14
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)1. Heh. Art of da Deal.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)2. not surprised ...
napkinz
(17,199 posts)13. I wish the Central Park Five story were getting more coverage ...
Donald Trumps doubling down on the Central Park Five reflects a bigger problem
By Janell Ross
October 8, 2016
This week, when confronted again with just how wrong he was about the Central Park Five, Trump not only refused to acknowledge widely reported and well-known facts or the court's official actions in the case. He did not simply refuse to apologize: He described the men as guilty, and then demonstrated, once again, that he is a master at the dark art of using long-standing racial fears, stereotypes and anxieties to advance his personal and political goals.
He used the Central Park Five to differentiate himself from his political opponent. He stoked support for solutions inconsistent with the law. And he refused to admit any error. In doing so, Trump showed himself to be genuinely willing to say the impolitic, to take a harder-than-hard stand on crime and to do or say anything to best and punish those who he believes have committed crimes.
I would say this obsession of his is one of the strangest things I have ever heard of, Richardson told me, except we know that it's not exactly rare, that it's been used to whip up lynch mobs and pass laws and take people's lives at the end of a rope in this country before. Really, as I sat there and listened to him, realizing this is real, not some kind of joke, my stomach started to turn. It really made me physically ill. Donald Trump was at it again, this time to take control of the country.
Richardson, by the way, said all of this to me in March, when I interviewed some of the Central Park Five for The Washington Post's book, Trump Revealed. This week, Richardson's alarm, his sense that Trump is a skilled manipulator of long-standing stereotypes and anxieties for personal gain, does not seem far-fetched at all.
read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/08/donald-trumps-doubling-down-on-the-central-park-five-reflects-a-bigger-problem/
By Janell Ross
October 8, 2016
This week, when confronted again with just how wrong he was about the Central Park Five, Trump not only refused to acknowledge widely reported and well-known facts or the court's official actions in the case. He did not simply refuse to apologize: He described the men as guilty, and then demonstrated, once again, that he is a master at the dark art of using long-standing racial fears, stereotypes and anxieties to advance his personal and political goals.
He used the Central Park Five to differentiate himself from his political opponent. He stoked support for solutions inconsistent with the law. And he refused to admit any error. In doing so, Trump showed himself to be genuinely willing to say the impolitic, to take a harder-than-hard stand on crime and to do or say anything to best and punish those who he believes have committed crimes.
I would say this obsession of his is one of the strangest things I have ever heard of, Richardson told me, except we know that it's not exactly rare, that it's been used to whip up lynch mobs and pass laws and take people's lives at the end of a rope in this country before. Really, as I sat there and listened to him, realizing this is real, not some kind of joke, my stomach started to turn. It really made me physically ill. Donald Trump was at it again, this time to take control of the country.
Richardson, by the way, said all of this to me in March, when I interviewed some of the Central Park Five for The Washington Post's book, Trump Revealed. This week, Richardson's alarm, his sense that Trump is a skilled manipulator of long-standing stereotypes and anxieties for personal gain, does not seem far-fetched at all.
read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/08/donald-trumps-doubling-down-on-the-central-park-five-reflects-a-bigger-problem/
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. So this is why Comcast/NBC has
been running interference for Con Job. Got to keep a lid on the Garbage Can. Threaten Producers and Directors as well as Writers with Law Suits.
O'Donell will pop something soon.
malaise
(268,968 posts)5. And don't forget that GENBComcast
donated heavily to the Con's fake foundation.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)8. We know of 500k
so far as well as free face time.
treestar
(82,383 posts)4. Where are the hackers?
safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)7. Putin's basement and
they weigh 400lbs
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)6. Which sad to say
Will lose him precisely zero votes he hasn't already lost.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)10. Just so everyone knows- I predicted this first on Saturday :)
You know it's going to happen-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028215636
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)11. Wow, he's is such a revolting piece of crap. How any person of color could cast
a vote for this pig is just beyond me.
spanone
(135,830 posts)12. K&R...
lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)14. Not sure I want that one released. He's already losing, and this would really hurt.
Sometimes it's not worth it.