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UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:36 PM Sep 2025

It's not destruction of *evidence* without charges? - Why would Mark BURNETT keep his KRASNOV material?

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/wealthy-tv-producer-holding-potentially-damaging-trump-tapes-in-a-vault-in-idaho/ar-AA1NpQnj?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=31eea41b33d64f55ce6a4ceb12aaf4fb&ei=65

Wealthy TV producer holding potentially damaging Trump tapes 'in a vault in Idaho'

.... “When [the Access Hollywood tape] came out, it was because a contestant in a Miss Universe pageant had said 'Donald Trump has said terrible things about me,' and he said 'I never talk like that at all,' and then NBC sent out to all their divisions 'look through your tapes,’” Bush said. “Now, the ones they wanted belonged to Mark Burnett and are in a vault somewhere in Idaho, and those are all the outtakes from The Apprentice set.”

Burnett, a thirteen-time Emmy Award winner, has a long personal relationship with Trump, with Trump reportedly once calling Burnett a “special special friend.” Burnett also produced Trump’s popular reality television series “The Apprentice,” which ran from 2004 to 2017, hundreds of tapes of outtakes of which still exist and are in the possession of Burnett, Bush claimed. ....

Whether any of the unseen tapes will ever come to light, remains unclear. Burnett has denied being a supporter of Trump’s presidency, declaring himself in 2016 “I am not pro-Trump,” and that he and his wife “reject the hatred, division and misogyny that has been a very unfortunate part of his campaign.”

However, despite Burnett’s past claims, he was tapped by Trump as the special envoy to the United Kingdom, suggesting that the two may very well have made amends, and further suggesting that the television producer may be hesitant to cave to demands to release his trove of Trump tapes, which likely include well over a decade of outtakes and behind the scenes footage shot on the set of The Apprentice.

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It's not destruction of *evidence* without charges? - Why would Mark BURNETT keep his KRASNOV material? (Original Post) UTUSN Sep 2025 OP
This entire travesty of the Chump years can be laid on the shoulders of Mark Burnett. Totally Tunsie Sep 2025 #1
Yip, it's a surprise to me in this news item that BURNETT said he wasn't pro-KRASNOV. UTUSN Sep 2025 #3
So, I guess Billy Bush has moved past all that and is returning back to one of the entertainment hlthe2b Sep 2025 #2

Totally Tunsie

(12,021 posts)
1. This entire travesty of the Chump years can be laid on the shoulders of Mark Burnett.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 01:40 PM
Sep 2025

There wouldn't have been a trump presidency if Burnett hadn't released the kraken of The Apprentice. He's earned his place in hell for all eternity.

UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
3. Yip, it's a surprise to me in this news item that BURNETT said he wasn't pro-KRASNOV.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 01:44 PM
Sep 2025

What little I assumed was that he was. Perhaps he and his wife, with their religious bent, might have come to disapprove of KRASNOV but they've made a mint and a cushy political appointment with him.




hlthe2b

(114,692 posts)
2. So, I guess Billy Bush has moved past all that and is returning back to one of the entertainment
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 01:44 PM
Sep 2025

shows (he has a podcast too). He admits to being very immature and sycophantic way back when--YUP--but I'd agree that despite Rick Wilson's admonition that #ETTD, it is good he might be the exception to Trump's taking down everyone and everything around him--at least permanently.

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