Is the Trump N-Word tape real?

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Calarogus shark media from Washington, DC, where the N word Trump was looking

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for was not. This is balid. That's right. Today, we live

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in a world where it takes three
days to get to the story of Trump's

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alleged use of the N word.
Let's hit this. Here's a major story

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that got lost in the shuffle this
week. It seems the long rumored Trump

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N word tape from the Apprentice days
may actually exist, if former producer Bill

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Prewitt's claims are to be believed.
Though to be fair, Trump has vehemently

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denied ever using that vile, racist
language. Now I'll let others litigate the

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veracity of Pruwit's account and whether this
supposed bombshell tape will ever see the light

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of day. But even if true, does it really surprise anyone at this

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point that Trump might have engaged in
such abhorrent racist behavior, especially back in

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his unfiltered reality TV days. The
man has hardly been a paragon of cultural

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sensitivity over the years. Remember this
is the same Donald Trump who kicked off

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his twenty sixteen campaign by calling Mexicans
rapists, proclaimed there were very fine people

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on both sides. After Charlottesville,
told four Democratic congresswomen of color to go

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back to their countries, shall I
go on? Trump's pension for offensive racially

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charged language has been extensively documented.
That said, making the leap from run

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of the mill bigotry to explicitly using
the N word would still be a pretty

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massive line to cross, even for
Trump. It's the sort of undeniable racism

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that's impossible for allies to brush off
or excuse. Of course, the Trump

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camp's response has been to decry the
allegation as horse feathers and fake news from

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desperate Democrats, because obviously deflecting,
denying, and demonizing the messenger is plan

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a when inconvenient controversies arise. Look, at the end of the day,

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whether this specific tapeing exists or not, Trump's record on race is troubling enough.

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If it does come out, it
would just be the putrid racism flavored

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cherry on top of his already bigoted
Sunday of public statements and actions over the

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years. But hey, at least
it's providing some entertaining gossip and hypotheticals to

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chew on amidst the dead heat of
the twenty twenty four campaign trail. Because

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there's nothing the discourse loves more than
a juicy, potentially damning tape scandal.

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Even President Biden couldn't resist taking a
swing, equipping that the allegations are just

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another revelation about how horrible that guy
you used to work for is. So

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Buckle up, folks, Whether this
particular tape emerges or not, you can

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count on Trump's troubled racial legacy being
a focal point of the coming months,

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and for the former President's team,
the denials, distractions, and damage control

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have only just begun. Well,
it seems the old cancel culture may finally

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be coming for Trump's star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame, now that he

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he's a freshly minted, convicted felon. You know things are getting real when

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even LA's bureaucrats are debating whether to
scrub the former President's name off their precious

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tourist trap. Can't you just picture
it, Teams of workers carrying buckets of

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industrial strength solvent, scrubbing and chiseling
away at that pink Torozzo star until every

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last vestige of the Trump brand is
erased. A gratuitous bit of virtue signaling,

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to be sure, but one I'm
sure more than a few angelinos would

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happily gawk at. Nonetheless, and
why stop with just the sidewalk star.

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According to reports, they may go
so far as to try renaming that fancy

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Donald J. Trump State Park in
New York too. No more placid nature

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hikes among signs bearing the name of
an honest to God convicted criminal, thank

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you very much, of course,
true to Trump's teflon nature, this is

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all just the latest in a long
line of attempts by cities and institutions to

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publicly disassociate from the disgraced former leader. Hey can't say they didn't warn him.

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When you spend a lifetime being an
infamous bore and human dumpster fire,

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don't be surprised when the world decides
you're simply too toxic for further public glorification

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once legal rulings confirm your misdeeds.
Not that any of this will really FaZe

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Trump himself in the slightest. He'll
just double down on painting himself as the

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poor, persecuted martyr, cruelly canceled
by liberal elites hell bent on enforcing woke

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agendas through symbolic gestures like removing his
name from parks and plaques, already you

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can envision the inevitable fundraising emails hitting
Magalan's inboxes. The radical left is trying

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to erase me from history. But
for just dollar ninety nine, you can

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get this huge ten foot Trump statue
to trigger the Libs, and just like

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that, the gryftomatic will spin into
overdrive, fueling the old persecution complex while

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monetizing Trump's personal war on cancel culture
by hawking tacky golden idols to his supporters.

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Maybe they'll even throw in complimentary cans
of Trump branded graffiti remover for that

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extra thematic touch. So while the
LA City Council and State park folks may

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get a momentary cathartic thrill from their
public detrumpification initiatives, we all know the

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mythical martyr narrative will only grow larger
in their wake, just another chance for

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the former guy to play the victim
while raking in those donor dollars. Hey,

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at least we can all take solace
that even if Trump's name remains plastered

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in public spaces, that permanent stain
of being an officially convicted felon will forever

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trail him and his legacy. The
Hollywood Walk of shame just got a new

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legally disgraced edition, and this time
no amount of public scrubbing or redactions will

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ever make it go away entirely.
How's that for being truly uncancellable. If

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you ever find yourself needing just one
more story so that you can finish your

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podcast early and maybe get half a
Sunday to yourself, here's a pro tip.

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Just google RFK and there will one
hundred percent be some wacky story to

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goofon. Here's one now, RFK
Junior denounces the removal of Confederate statues,

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and yikes, Junior really seems determined
to insert himself into every controversial hot button

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issue, doesn't he. Denouncing the
removal of Confederate statues and explicitly siding with

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Trump's defenses of those racist monuments is
a certainly choice for someone running as an

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independent candidate. You'd think the son
of an iconic Democrat like RFK would maybe

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just maybe have a little more nuanced
take on the systemic oppression and whitewashing of

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history those statues represent, But nope, Kennedy went full magaculture warrior by decrying

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their removal as an attack on preserving
history. Itself, the sheer cognitive dissonance

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of lamenting. We'd have to erase
all of history to find people completely virtuous

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in the same breath as defending literal
rebels who went to war against the United

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States to preserve slavery. Is wow, talk about some Olympic level mental gymnastics,

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and then to double down by holding
up the traitor as slave owning Robert

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E. Lee as some personal Confederate
hero to be idolized. You can practically

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hear the sound of Kennedy's dog whistles
echoing across the entire South with that one.

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At this point, you have to
wonder if Kennedy is even really running

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to be president of all Americans at
all, or if he's just fully leaned

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into becoming a professional outrage courting contrarian
scooping up all the fringe magacrums Trump's campaign

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has left behind in exchange for media
attention. Because really, whose mind is

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this nonsense even supposed to be changing? Is some mythical block of pro Confederate

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voters out there waiting for their savior
and Kennedy? And wouldn't they be Trump

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supporters anyway? Maybe it's a block
of Hey, we want to overthrow the

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government. But we're not down with
all the name calling voters, Or is

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RFK just cynically chasing the engagement metrics
by saying the quiet racist parts out loud.

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Whatever his motivations may be, it's
a terrible look that will surely alienate

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far more voters than it attracts.
Defending symbols of racism and treason doesn't exactly

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scream unifying presidential material to most reasonable
folks. Then again, given RFK Junior's

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long descent into being a punchline among
his own family for spouting anti vax conspiracies,

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maybe he's just leaned into the role
of professional troll at this point.

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If so well played on the outrage
bait Robert, the memes practically create themselves.

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All I know is having one of
the last Kennedy scions out here sounding

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more maga than Trump has to be
absolutely killing whatever's left of the family's democratic

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old guard. At this rate,
he may as well just start wearing a

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red baseball cap and hitting up NASCAR
infield. Raffles Woolf. Portions of today's

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podcast was created with the help of
AI. AI has never attempted to overthrow

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the government yet, but watch out. I keep forgetting to read this next

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thing, and I'm in trouble.
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