Yes, the buzz may be more about promoting a new TV show for Tom Arnold, but wouldn’t we finally like to know that this not-fake tape exists amidst the lulls among Mueller report revelations.
It is worse than the usual verbal misogyny to know that at least one physical assault tape exists. It would be sad to discover that such a tape was “caught and killed”.
Watching it is not as important as simply verifying what has been far too obvious in the context of #MeToo.
“The next morning the source said the tape was no longer for sale and it was insinuated that it had been bought by someone else. Then the source went completely dark.”
— TMZ lawyer Jason Beckerman
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More amusing could be RT pushing some alternative kind of Trump “tapes” programming.
During the entire protracted campaign cycle, countless journalists, including myself, found themselves searching in vain for the so-called Trump tapes, or various outtakes and B-roll that had captured Trump speaking extemporaneously. Given the sheer number of hours required to shoot a television show over 11 seasons, many assumed all that raw footage might contain a moment or two that Trump would have preferred to keep private. And given how hard it was to decipher what Trump truly believed during the campaign cycle—did he really want to build a wall around Mexico or start a Muslim registry?—many journalists hoped that the outtakes could reveal more truthful insights into his character and policies.
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Over the course of the year, I would hear incredible allegations. But nothing ever materialized. I was told that any footage would be difficult to get hold of. The putative “tapes,” a source said, actually referred to mere moments within an almost incomprehensibly large volume of footage—larger than anyone likely could have fathomed.
While the boardroom scenes of The Apprentice accounted for only about a third of the one- or two-hour-long television show, Trump and his producers were in that room for several hours per episode taping. There could be between 10 and 12 cameras, which would often be rolling the entire time. Sometimes, according to one person involved with the show, Trump would say things to rile up the contestants, perhaps so that the camera could capture reaction shots that would entertain viewers at home.
Most of the time, some said, Trump just yammered about what was on his mind. These comments could be misogynistic, I was told. At other times, they could be self-referential. (People who had worked with Trump on The Apprentice had heard that he would be in the 2016 race for two months at the most, then he’d be back on reality TV.)
“Having seen some of the raw footage of Trump on The Apprentice,” Arnold says, “I’m confident that, if it would have come out, it would have changed the results of the election.”
As much as the tapes may have become a fixation for political operatives, journalists, and so many people in Hollywood, they may have also become a white whale during the campaign.
Without the prospect of the tapes, maybe Clinton’s campaign would have arranged more rallies in the Rust Belt.
News outlets may have focused more on understanding why so many Americans had stuck Trump-Pence signs on their lawns.
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We’ll see soon as the green light remains lit for Tom Arnold’s show.
In later tweets Arnold mentioned a “Russian sex tape,” Trump’s “version of the Ray Rice elevator tape,” a video of Trump and Jared Kushner’s dad with “super young Russians in FLA,” a “Miss Teen USA Backstage Tape,” and a “Backstage Miss Universe Tape.”
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