How we could find the Apprentice tape on which Donald Trump says the N-word.

We all have our lasting memories of the 2016 election. Pruitt says that in this one, Donald Trump is justifying not selecting Kwame Jackson as the winner on the first season of the hit show, and he asks his producers, “Would America buy a n— winning?” Pruitt’s description of the moment—and the way in which the set of The Apprentice accepted this kind of behavior—is horrifying. As Trump said himself, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Heading into another hotly contested election this November, it feels like voters, members of the press, and even Democratic politicians are acting the same way all over again: as if either some deus ex machina is going to swoop in and save the country from Trump—and so nobody need work to combat his candidacy themselves—or whatever happens will happen, he’ll win or lose, no matter what anybody does, even now as a convicted felon. But he decided to share this story anyway, because his NDA was up and because “Trump is making a second attempt to be president of the United States, and he’s leading in some of the polls,” which led Pruitt “to think almost desperately about trying to remind people what a con The Apprentice was.” Here is the thing: Pruitt is very clear that such a tape, at least at one time, existed. As Daniels’ attorney, Keith Davidson, texted National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard as the votes were being counted and as it was becoming clear that Trump would win: “What have we done?” And for all we know, the tape surfacing—alongside whatever else was caught on camera during those Apprentice years—could be the thing that changes the outcome of the upcoming election.