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(85,996 posts)
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:17 PM Oct 2016

Producers sitting on footage that includes film of Donald Trump using the n-word?

Jezebel @Jezebel
Producer 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 Burnett’s 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
Heh. Art of da Deal. Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #1
not surprised ... napkinz Oct 2016 #2
+1 bigtree Oct 2016 #9
I wish the Central Park Five story were getting more coverage ... napkinz Oct 2016 #13
So this is why Comcast/NBC has Wellstone ruled Oct 2016 #3
And don't forget that GENBComcast malaise Oct 2016 #5
We know of 500k Wellstone ruled Oct 2016 #8
Where are the hackers? treestar Oct 2016 #4
Putin's basement and safeinOhio Oct 2016 #7
Which sad to say whatthehey Oct 2016 #6
Just so everyone knows- I predicted this first on Saturday :) snooper2 Oct 2016 #10
Wow, he's is such a revolting piece of crap. How any person of color could cast smirkymonkey Oct 2016 #11
K&R... spanone Oct 2016 #12
Not sure I want that one released. He's already losing, and this would really hurt. lindysalsagal Oct 2016 #14

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
13. I wish the Central Park Five story were getting more coverage ...
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 12:08 PM
Oct 2016
Donald Trump’s 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
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:30 PM
Oct 2016

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.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
11. Wow, he's is such a revolting piece of crap. How any person of color could cast
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 11:09 AM
Oct 2016

a vote for this pig is just beyond me.

lindysalsagal

(20,680 posts)
14. Not sure I want that one released. He's already losing, and this would really hurt.
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 12:51 PM
Oct 2016

Sometimes it's not worth it.

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