Former ‘Apprentice’ producer claims Trump used the n-word while discussing Black contestant

A former producer on The Apprentice claims that former President Donald Trump used a racial slur during a recorded discussion about a Black contestant potentially winning the show’s first season.

Bill Pruitt was one of four producers during the first two seasons of the NBC reality TV show. Writing for Slate, he says the non-disclosure agreement he signed at the time expired this year, allowing him to speak out at long last.

“By carefully misleading viewers about Trump—his wealth, his stature, his character, and his intent—the competition reality show set about an American fraud that would balloon beyond its creators’ wildest imaginations,” he writes.

Pruitt writes that very little time on the show was actually spent with Trump in the room. He added that the then-future president would target female members of the crew “with the gaze of a hungry lion,” “leering” at a female camera assistant and assessing the looks of a female contestant “for whoever is listening.” He allegedly told a female camera operator to get off an elevator where she was about to film him because she was too “heavy.”

Towards the end of the first season, only two contestants remained – Kwame Jackson, a Black man working as a broker for Goldman Sachs, and Bill Rancic, a white cigar business entrepreneur.

Trump gave them each a task at one of his properties. Jackson teamed up with former contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman to oversee a benefit concert with Jessica Simpson at Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, while Rancic was in charge of a celebrity golf tournament at Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

Back in the boardroom, Carolyn Kepcher, who was in charge of hospitality units and one of Mr Trump’s golf clubs, said she