Well, this is certainly interesting…
Multiple media outlets are reporting that investigative journalist Ronan Farrow has possession of those alleged behind-the-scenes tapes of Donald Trump using the N-word while he was starring on NBC’s “The Apprentice.”
The tapes are said to feature Trump using the N-word multiple times, as well as calling his son Eric Trump a “retard.”
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Rumors that Farrow had the tapes began swirling after Tom Arnold confronted “The Apprentice” producer Mark Burnett at an Emmy Awards party last Sunday night, telling him that Farrow “had possession” of the recordings.
Page Six reports:
Discussing last night’s incident with a group of party attendees, we hear an excited Arnold was asked if he actually had any Apprentice tapes of Trump and answered in the affirmative. He said they had been “handed over” to New Yorker journalist Farrow on Sunday.
A scuffle apparently ensued, resulting in the police being called.
Mark Burnett just went apeshit & choked me at this huge Emmy party then he ran away with his torn Pink shirt & missing gold chain. I’m waiting for LAPD
— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) September 17, 2018
Rumors of the tapes first came about during the 2016 election campaign. They again resurfaced over the summer with the publication of Omarosa Manigault Newman’s tell-all book “Unhinged”.
In the book, Manigault Newman writes that she came to a “growing realization that Donald Trump was indeed a racist, a bigot and a misogynist.”
“My certainty about the N-word tape and his frequent uses of that word were the top of a high mountain of truly appalling things I’d experienced with him, during the last two years in particular,” she claims in the book.
So far, Farrow hasn’t commented on the story, but he did recently retweet this Tweet from earlier this summer:
A quick reminder that I don’t comment on reporting I haven’t published, and if you’re reading about my work from secondary sources you’re often not getting the full or correct story—especially in cases where parties have an interest in downplaying or otherwise spinning.
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) July 27, 2018
We’re patiently waiting for the other shoe to drop.
radiooutmike
Oh, i hope so. IDK if it’ll matter though.
jcoberkrom
Seriously does it really matter?
Mick406
To hell with that tape . . . I wanna see a tape of Ferrow. Damn, he’s got a purdy face!!!!
DarkZephyr
He truly is beautiful, isn’t he? I totally believe that he is Frank Sinatra’s son and not Woody Allan’s.
MikeM
He can’t be. Nancy Sinatra has said her father had a vasectomy well before Ronan was conceived.
PinkoOfTheGange
If you check out the pix of his maternal grand father, it answers why Mia married a man near twice her age.
OzJosh
The rumour that Sinatra is Farrow’s father has been conclusively disproved by Sinatra’s biographer. At the time of conception Sinatra was on the opposite side of the country recovering from serious abdominal surgery and being nursed around the clock by his wife. Mia hadn’t been anywhere near him anywhere around that time, so her sly suggestion that Ronan could have been Franks – calculated to feed the rumours and hurt Woody – is just further evidence of what a nut-job she is.
DarkZephyr
IF he is not Sinatra’s kid, how in the world does he look the way he does? At any rate, point is, he’s stunningly handsome, in my opinion.
Kangol
If you have the recordings, Ronan Farrow, and can verify them, please, share them with the world!
Wicked Dickie
President Lyndon Johnson said the “N-word” all the time in the months, days, hours leading up to him signing the Civil Rights Act. Shrugs shoulders and move on.
Kieran
I’d be very surprised if President Jimmy Carter can honestly say he never used that term during his life time.
PinkoOfTheGange
So we haven’t changed what is social acceptable? Should the laws against unnatural carnal acts still be on the books?
DCguy
Wow, so THIS is the defense that the troll accounts are coming up with? You KNOW you’re in a sad state.
Creamsicle
Johnson was also a serial sexual harasser who liked to literally swing his dick around to get people to pay attention to him. He’s hardly a man to be admired, for all that he reshaped American politics by signing the Civil Rights Act into law.
batesmotel
Ronan Farrow is a talentless attention whore. Who cares.
MikeM
He’s brilliant. Graduated from college at the age of sixteen. You?
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Go the fcuk away you abhorrent, noxious, filthy troll…
dfwenigma
Of course everyone has two holes. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion and so far at least the US is still a free country. That being said. Those who wish to say totally trashy and incorrect things can suffer the flames and arrows (I mean slings and arrows) of outrageous fortune. The truly talentless love to cut down the very talented. Please do enlighten us with your many accomplishments batesmotel. Was it a Pulitzer? How about an Emmy or an Oscar? Perhaps you’ve written some great American novel. Or perhaps you’ve been published in major newspapers and magazines and newspapers. No? What a shame. To be so sad that you have to cut down an obviously successful and brilliant young man means you must be a truly challenged. I actually feel sorry for you.
tham
Please come up with a different put down. The repetitiveness is mind numbing
QueerTruth
Yawn. Typical pointless poop throwing monkey comment.
Brian
We already know that Donald Trump is a racist, and furthermore, an all-around bigot. We don’t need additional tapes. Anyone not convinced yet is a fool.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
#1 Call to fcuk up someone’s day:
You have Ronan Farrow on line 2….
JoshGL
The African-American community was not motivated in 2016.
They didn’t participate in Obama-era levels.
You get Trump on tape – you bring them back into the fold.
And that’s the difference.
Creamsicle
Black Americans know that Trump is a racist already. Black Americans were the ones who told their flabbergasted white friends to get a reality check and realize how many racist people are living outside of their perfect liberal bubble.
People of color don’t need to be told that there are resentful racists in all parts of America. They find us and they harass us as long as they think they can get away with it. In fact, they often make sure to do it while we’re alone and off guard.
Me2
A better candidate will bring more African-Americans into the fold, not tapes of something everyone already knows to be true. Also, it was the white female vote that got Trump elected, not an unmotivated black vote. So, let’s not try to re-write history and blame blacks for this travesty.
DCguy
No shocker, Republicans are racists, and Donald Trump’s father was arrested at a KKK rally.
Also, hey Queerty, considering the staggeringly low numbers of LGBT Trump supporters, can you do some clean up on the one or two people running the 15 bigoted, anti-LGBT, Pro-Trump screenames that keep coming in here to derail the conversations?