Ex-Apprentice producer claims Trump used racial slur for Black contestant
by Robert Tait in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6N5X1)
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Donald Trump used a racial epithet to reject the prospect of a Black winner on the debut season of The Apprentice, the Emmy-nominated series that transformed the former president into a reality TV star and fuelled his political career.
Trump rejected the views of close aides that Kwame Jackson, a broker who worked for Goldman Sachs, had been the most impressive contestant, saying, Would America buy a [N-word] winning?", according to a producer who worked on the NBC show's opening series in 2004, when it was called Meet the Billionaire.
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