One of the four producers behind the 2004 TV smash hit "The Apprentice" that rocketed Donald Trump into global stardom opened up about the former president's purportedly controversial remarks on the show.
Bill Pruitt, appearing on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins a day after his Slate exposé "The Donald Trump I Saw on The Apprentice" was published, recounted a particular incident that he believes was captured on tape.
It involved Donald Trump purportedly saying the N-word. Until recently, Pruitt stated he was bound by a two-decade Non Disclosure Agreement [NDA].
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Now that it's expired, he's coming forward at almost certain risk to his television career.
"In my business it can be 20 years and it's still sacrilegious because you're held to this agreement for very strict principles in reality TV — we're like magicians, we don't reveal our secrets to anyone," he said. "So for me to come out and say what I'm saying to you is tantamount to career suicide, okay?"
In fact, Pruitt is convinced he may never get hired again in Tinsel Town after his article outed the former president (who at the time was a real estate mogul flexing his business acumen as he fired off the contestants hoping to work for the Trump Organization).
"I'm going to get blacklisted because of this, but I don't care," Pruitt said.
Specifically, he believes that there is a record of his recounting of a moment when Trump blurted out the racial epithet.
The specifics involved Omarosa Newman, who was painted as a villain on the show.
In a conversation about who deserved to win between the finalists, Trump allegedly said: “Why didn’t he just fire her,” referring to Omerosa who is Black.
When Trump is told by another producer that he's the kingmaker in this case, he apparently nodded but then Pruitt claims he demeaned the contestant.
He allegedly said: “Yeah...but, I mean, would America buy a [N-word] winning?”
Pruitt told Collins that he craned over to one of the producers who was a blonde-haired woman and he said her skin "went bright scarlet."
He then said he looked back at Trump to try and gather some context again to see if he would retreat from it, but instead he said he saw Trump "still wincing and bobbing his head and he was serious."
The Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung dismissed the accusation as "desperate" for the Democrats in his statement to Slate writing: “This is a completely fabricated and b------- story that was already peddled in 2016.”
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