Bill Pruitt, a former producer on The Apprentice, claims the expiration of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is finally allowing him to allege that Donald Trump said “n***er” — a slur against African-Americans — on set in 2004. Pruitt’s story about being gagged for two decades, however, fails to add up considering his previous barbs aimed at Trump, as well as years of commentary about the show.
“I signed an expansive nondisclosure agreement that promised a fine of $5 million and even jail time if I were to ever divulge what actually happened,” writes Pruitt in the little-read left wing website Slate. Pruitt describes himself as “one of four producers involved in the first two seasons” of the show, and implies the expiration of the NDA this year has freed him — although he has actually been trashing The Apprentice as a “scam” for years.
Pruitt claims Trump was reluctant to allow black season one contestant Kwame Jackson — now a self-described “DEI Consultant” who accuses Trump of “Racism, Xenophobia, [and] Sexism” on social media — to win. He claims Trump said, “I mean, would America buy a n***er winning?” He adds that the then-future president was “serious, and… adamant about not hiring Jackson,” and that “the damning evidence was caught on tape.”
However, such tapes have never emerged, and Pruitt writes he has come to believe they “will never be found.”
But despite claiming he could not accuse Trump of saying n***er without facing multi-million-dollar fines and possible jail time for violating an “expansive” NDA, he has been able to attack The Apprentice and personally insult Trump, apparently without sanction, since at least 2016.
Pruitt also previously denied as “preposterous” an accusation he signed “a confidentiality agreement when working on The Apprentice… agree[ing] to sexism in workplace,” implying it merely covered not disclosing the outcome of the contest.
“We signed them so as to not disclose who got fired,” Pruitt insisted, calling his new claims into question.
The news is evidently the latest, scarcely believable hoax against Trump, which comes as polls show the 45th President surging with black voters against Joe Biden. The peddlers of the hoax, including Pruitt, are asking Americans to believe that not only did Trump openly use the n-word amongst a number of liberal television colleagues, but that no one thought to allege it until 2024.
show lessThat's preposterous. We signed them so as to not disclose who got fired. Nobody knew the monster Trump would become. Get real.
— Bill Pruitt (@billpruitt) January 18, 2017
