Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Former President Donald Trump allegedly used the n-word to refer to a Black contestant on “The Apprentice” during an on-camera meeting two decades ago, a former producer claimed Thursday, resurfacing an accusation that has circulated for years—prompting the Biden campaign to blast Trump as a “textbook racist,” while Trump’s campaign vehemently denied it. Former U.S.
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[+] deliberations for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Justin Lane - Pool/Getty Images) Key Facts Former producer Bill Pruitt said he witnessed Trump question whether America would “buy a n— winning” when discussing a Black finalist, Kwame Jackson, during the first season of the show in 2004, Pruitt wrote in a piece published Thursday in Slate . Pruitt, who says he authored the exposé after his 20-year nondisclosure agreement expired this year, wrote it was a discussion “I know to be recorded” and one that took place in a boardroom in the presence of another producer, Jay Bienstock, and former “Apprentice” judge and Trump Golf Properties manager, Carolyn Kepcher.
Trump ultimately selected entrepreneur Bill Rancic as the winner of the season, after taking issue with Jackson’s handling of fellow contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman, who was later appointed to work in the Trump adm.