Former President Donald Trump is alleged to have used the N-word during deliberations of who should win the first season of The Apprentice, and according to a former producer whose NDA just expired, there are tapes of him saying the racial epithet.

There have long been rumors that Trump said the N-word during the taping of The Apprentice, and calls for former EP and reality television pioneer Mark Burnett to release the footage.

Bill Pruitt is an Emmy-nominated producer of the once-wildly popular competitive reality TV show, and his NDA of 20 years just expired. So he went long for Slate to detail what he saw of Trump from his position behind the scenes.

Pruitt details one discussion about who should win the season as it came down to the two final contestants. One was Bill Rancic — who eventually won and earned a job at the Trump Organization. The other was Kwame Jackson, a Black man. During that discussion, Pruit claims Trump said, “but, I mean, would America buy a n— winning?”

Trump has long denied that he ever said the N-word and even addressed these rumors on Twitter in 2018, claiming that Burnett told him there are no tapes of him using the word:

Trump is currently on trial for alleged election interference for fraudulently misleading American voters by hiding hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, and the deliberating jury might very well decide his fate on that issue in the next day or two.

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