[h1]‘Apprentice’ producers have footage of Trump using N-word: claim[/h1]
BY ADAM EDELMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Sunday, October 9, 2016, 6:04 PM
Donald Trump is rumored to have used extraordinarily profane language in unaired "The Apprentice" footage, including an instance where he said the N-word.
Producers of "The Apprentice," the reality show Donald Trump hosted for more than 10 years, are sitting on bombshell footage of the GOP nominee using the N-word, an Emmy-award winning producer claimed Sunday.
In a series of tweets Sunday, producer Chris Nee said she's heard such tapes exist of Trump using the obscenity but isn't in possession of the footage herself.
Nee, who didn’t work on “The Apprentice,” also hinted that she, and many others, had signed a contract with Mark Burnett, the lead producer of the show, that would make anyone who leaks such footage liable to pay a $5 million fine.
"I don't have the tapes. I've signed a Burnett contract & know leak fee is 5 mill. Hearing from producer/crew N word is the 'much worse,'" Nee tweeted Sunday.
"If a $5 million 'leak fee' is what stands between truth and total #Trump implosion, sign me up," Brock tweeted.
A GoFundMe page was even started, hours lafter, in hopes of raising the more than $5 million needed.
“This campaign hopes to raise the funds to pay those penalties and reward the whistleblower responsible with whatever remains to assist them forward in their career,” the page, started by Aaron Holman, said.
Nee's tweets referenced comments by Bill Pruitt, a former producer on "The Apprentice," who tweeted Saturday that Trump had been caught on camera saying "far worse" than the outrageously profane comments that emerged Friday in the form of an unedited 2005 conversation between Trump and then-"Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush.
"Grab them by the p---y," Trump told Bush, explaining his not-so-subtle seduction style. "You can do anything."
The bilious businessman later expounded on that unsettling thought: "When you're a star, they let you do it."
The 11-year-old video, obtained by The Washington Post, also showed the thrice-married Trump discussing a failed attempt at seduction — and then dissing the object of his rejected affection. "I moved on her and I failed," says Trump. "I'll admit it. I did try and f--k her. She was married. And I moved on her very heavily."
The comments were made on a hot mic and were apparently uncovered by "Access Hollywood" producers and then leaked to The Post.
That leak led to incessant chatter on social media that similar footage exists, particularly from his 10-plus years hosting "The Apprentice."
"As a producer on seasons 1 & 2 of #theapprentice I assure you: when it comes to the #trumptapes there are far worse. #justthebegininng," Pruitt, who was a producer on the first two seasons of the show, tweeted Saturday.
Later Sunday, Fox News Channel’s Geraldo Rivera said he, too, had tapes of “embarrassing” statements that Trump had made.
“I have interviewed Donald Trump many times and been with him many times and I have tapes,” Rivera said on the network’s “The Five” program. “My brother and I have been starting to go through the tapes now and there are statements that, in the context of the current climate, would be embarrassing.”
Rivera — who, incidentally was the runner-up on the seventh season of Trump’s “The Celebrity Apprentice” — did not say whether he would release the tapes.