President Joe Biden’s media allies are so desperate to stop him from hemorrhaging black voters that they have resorted to regurgitating a race hoax against former President Donald Trump that also failed in 2016 and 2018.
Bill Pruitt, who was a producer for “The Apprentice,” published a piece in Slate alleging Trump used the N-word during the taping of the first season. Pruitt said he waited until now to share his claim because he was under a nondisclosure agreement that conveniently expired at the same time that Biden is flailing in the polls among black voters in particular.
Pruitt’s allegation was allegedly “caught on tape,” yet Slate doesn’t provide any audio evidence. “Those tapes, I’ve come to believe, will never be found,” Pruitt writes.
Nor did Slate provide any evidence in 2016 when they ran a piece entitled “Is There Apprentice Footage Of Trump Saying the N-Word?” that acknowledged the lack of evidence but justified spreading the hearsay claim by citing a former producer who posted on Twitter that he was “hearing” about an instance involving the word but also noted that former Apprentice employees were subject to a $5 million “leak fee.” Slate concluded its hit piece by begging someone who is “eager to leak the Apprentice tapes” to “please write” to the outlet.
No one ever leaked the tapes. No other outlet has been able to independently confirm the authenticity of the claims either.
But just as there was no tangible evidence in 2018 when Omarosa Manigault Newman
