Source:Jesse Dollemore talking about the claims that a former Apprentice producer has made about Donald J. Trump.

Source:The New Democrat

“Jesse reads from and talks about a new article in Slate by a former producer on Trump’s reality game show, The Apprentice. The article exposes many interesting details surrounding the show’s production, including an account from the producer about Donald Trump using the N-word to describe a contestant.”

From Jesse Dollemore

“A producer on “The Apprentice” said Donald Trump used the n-word in a moment caught on tape that will likely never see the light of day.

In an op-ed for Slate, Bill Pruitt writes that he was one of four producers on the show’s first two seasons. He signed an NDA that expired this year — roughly 20 years after “The Apprentice” first premiered.

Pruitt writes that off-camera deliberations about contestant firings were filmed in case the show was ever questioned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which disallows fixing outcomes on game shows.

Pruitt said Trump used the slur while discussing first-season finalists Bill Rancic and Kwame Jackson.

A Trump campaign spokesperson told Slate that Pruitt’s account was a “completely fabricated and bullshit story that was already peddled in 2016.” The spokesperson said the claims were resurfacing due to “desperate” Democrats.

Pruitt writes in Slate that producers who’d heard Trump’s remarks never discussed the incident in the moment, and he believes the tapes will never be found.

A rep for NBCUniversal declined to comment.

Pruitt isn’t the first person involved with “The Apprentice” to claim Trump used the n-word.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, who also appeared on the first season of the show and formerly worked in the Trump administration, said she’d listened to tapes where Trump used the slur. Trump denied the existence of the tapes at the time, calling Manigault Newman “wacky and deranged.”

Rumors of “Apprentice” outtake tapes have swirled for years.

Mark Burnett, the reality TV megaproducer and creator of the show, denounced Trump before the 2016 election. But Burnett said he had no legal rights to release any tapes. An MGM lawyer, whose studio bought Burnett’s production company, also confirmed at the time that they did not have the rights to release any footage.

“MGM, not Mark Burnett, owns ‘The Apprentice.’ MGM has agreements with artists across a wide spectrum of creative properties, including ‘The Apprentice.’ These agreements typically contain provisions related to confidentiality and artist’s rights,” Marvin S. Putnam, MGM’s outside counsel, said in a statement at the time.”

From Business Insider

First of all and at risk of creating some new cure for insomnia or something, I feel the need to state the obvious here. Because apparently that obvious missed Jesse Dollemore as it relates to this story.

We don’t know if this producer is actually correct with this claim here. Like with every other American, you shouldn’t just automatically take the word of someone, especially someone who signed a non-disclosure agreement, who says X, Y, or Z, once used a horrible, racist word, when talking about other human beings.

If this tape is out there and it actually exists, or it ever existed in the first place, and Donald Trump is on it using the n-word, it will get out. But until then it’s Donald J. Trump’s word (which is worth about as much as bikinis in Antarctica) versus someone who also hasn’t established any credibility with the public, at least on this story, either.

I have no doubt that Donald J. Trump is the swine of swines, who should be running for President of Swineland, or some place, instead of President of the United States. I have no doubt how he feels about African-Americans, and other racial minorities, who at best he just tries to use to obtain more power for himself.

But if you are a responsible journalist or commentator, you just don’t automatically take the word of one person, to use against someone you obviously oppose. Which is what Jesse Dollemore is doing to hurt Donald Trump. You have to have solid evidence to back up the claims that the person is using against someone else, first. And then you can go from there.