Trump Claims N-Word Tapes Don't Exist, Cites Mark Burnett 
 
 The president is currently locked in a feud with former 'Apprentice' contestant and White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman. 
 
 Following claims made by former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman that she had heard audio recordings of Donald Trump saying the N-word, the president responded on Twitter that no such tapes exist. 
 
 "@MarkBurnettTV called to say there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa," Trump tweeted Monday night. "I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up. Look at her MANY recent quotes saying...such wonderful and powerful things about me - a true Champion of Civil Rights - until she got fired. Omarosa had Zero credibility with the Media (they didn’t want interviews) when she worked in the White House. Now that she says bad about me, they will talk to her. Fake News!" 
 
 Mark Burnett, who produced the NBC reality series that both Trump and Manigault-Newman starred on, is a friend of the president, though he balked at the claim that he was "pro-Trump" in 2016. "I am not now and have never been a supporter of Donald Trump’s candidacy. I am NOT 'Pro-Trump.' Further, my wife and I reject the hatred, division and misogyny that has been a very unfortunate part of his campaign,” he said. 
 
 Burnett recently extended his deal with MGM Television. 
 
 The rumors of such tapes existing has persisted for the past year and a half, with actor Tom Arnold claiming he is in possession of them. Following Trump's tweets on Monday night, Arnold sent a few tweets of his own, saying, "Seven @MarkBurnettTV Apprentice Employees gave statements about @realdonaldtrump saying multiple "n" words on the set of @ApprenticeNBC & 100 other horrible things. I spoke to 2 Executive Producers & Mark Burnett in person. They all said Trump's a liar & there is #TrumpTapes." 
 
 Shortly thereafter the White House released a lengthy statement about the alleged tape. Lynne Patton, a senior official in the Trump Administration, said in a statement: "On December 12, 2017, at approximately 11:30PM (EST) – a date I now know to be the evening Omarosa was relieved of her official duties by General Kelly - I received a telephone call from her informing me that she had personally heard a second-hand recording of President Trump using the 'N-word' in a derogatory fashion ... She proceeded to tell me the full name of the individual who played this second-hand tape for her, from whom the primary audio tape had originated, as well as the specific context of the President’s usage of this term and to whom the derogatory term was allegedly directed." 
 
 Patton continued: "Today, the individual who Omarosa confirmed to me as having played the second-hand audio recording to her last year confirmed that they have no tape, never had possession of a tape, never claimed to have possession of a tape and never played such a tape for Ms. Manigault-Newman." 
 
 The source in question was Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt, who Patton referred to as a "mutual friend." 
 
 "I just spoke to Bill Pruitt tonight before releasing this statement," Patton wrote. "He confirmed to me (before Hardball had even gone off the air) that he does NOT have an audio tape of President Trump using the 'N-word' and has NEVER had an audio tape of President Trump using the 'N-word.' Period." 
 
 Patton then noted, "Based upon her conflicting accounts and the newfound information revealed in my statement, it should be abundantly clear to everyone that not only is her book a complete work of fiction, but that the existence of this elusive 'N-word' tape is a figment of her imagination and merely a destructive tool of manipulation applied only when it best serves her interests." 

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 The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has said Omarosa Manigault Newman's new memoir is "riddled with lies." Mark Wilson/Getty Images 
 
 President Donald Trump and another official slapped away Omarosa Manigault Newman's claims that she heard Trump say the N-word in a recording taken years ago during the filming of the NBC reality show "The Apprentice." 
 
 Before Monday, Manigault Newman publicly had said only that she had heard such a recording existed, but in an interview with the MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday night she suggested she had since heard it. She has unleashed a barrage of criticism against Trump in recent days amid the release of her tell-all book, "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the White House." 
 
 Trump on Monday night seemed to deny having ever used the N-word. 
 
 Writing on Twitter, he said Mark Burnett, the "Apprentice" producer turned MGM chairman, had "called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa. 
 
 "I don't have that word in my vocabulary, and never have," he continued. "She made it up. Look at her MANY recent quotes saying such wonderful and powerful things about me - a true Champion of Civil Rights - until she got fired. Omarosa had Zero credibility with the Media (they didn't want interviews) when she worked in the White House. Now that she says bad about me, they will talk to her. Fake News!" 
 
 Omarosa Manigault Newman with Donald Trump. Carlo Allegri/Reuters 
 
 Manigault Newman, the former communications director for the White House Office of Public Liaison, told Matthews she heard Trump say racially derogatory remarks, specifically the N-word, "multiple times" in a three-minute recording. 
 
 She added that the remarks were made in reference to Kwame Jackson, a black contestant on the show. 
 
 "It sounded as if he used it every day," Manigault Newman told Matthews of the N-word. "It rolled off his mouth." 
 
 Manigault Newman said that it was during the 2016 campaign when she first heard such recordings may have existed and that she was shocked. 
 
 "My first reaction to it was, 'This can't be true,'" she said, adding: "My first instinct was to protect him and not to dive deeper because I just dismissed it as untrue." 
 
 Manigault Newman apparently went on to investigate such recordings, however. Also Monday evening, HuffPost cited multiple sources as saying Manigault Newman had actually told at least three Trump aides back in December that she had already heard a recording taken during "Apprentice" filming in which Trump had said a racial slur. 
 
 HuffPost cited three anonymous Trump aides as saying she had told them the recording was played for her in the White House by Troy McClain, a former "Apprentice" contestant. 
 
 McClain acknowledged meeting with Manigault Newman at the White House in December but laughed at the notion that he played the tape for her, according to HuffPost. "You've got to be bulls------- me. Is this a joke?" he reportedly said. 
 
 The idea that Manigault Newman had heard such a recording as far back as December contradicts her public statements. During promotional interviews for her book before Monday, she had said she heard incriminating recordings existed but had not listened to any. She then suggested in Monday's MSNBC interview that she only recently heard the three-minute recording, and she did not indicate who was in possession of it but suggested the person might be keeping it to hurt Trump in the November midterms. 
 
 The former "Apprentice" contestant Kwame Jackson on Fox Business. Fox Business/YouTube 
 
 HuffPost cited multiple sources as saying Manigault Newman had told them in December that an "Apprentice" producer named Bill Pruitt had been in possession of the tape containing the audio she had heard. 
 
 During the 2016 campaign, Pruitt teased the existence of incriminating recordings of Trump from "Apprentice" filming, but HuffPost said he denied having possessed any such tapes. 
 
 Lynne Patton, a regional director at the Department of Housing and Urban Development who said she spoke with Pruitt on Monday, released a statement emphasizing that rebuttal. 
 
 "Based upon her conflicting accounts and the newfound information ... it should be abundantly clear to everyone that not only is her book a complete work of fiction, but that the existence of this elusive 'N-word' tape is a figment of her imagination and merely a destructive took of manipulation applied on when it best serves her interests," Patton said in her statement. 
 
 Manigault Newman launched a media frenzy amid the release of a memoir that paints the Trump administration in an unflattering light. On Sunday, she released an audio recording of what she said was a discussion between her and the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, inside the Situation Room, sparking security concerns for officials who are not supposed to bring recording devices into the secure room. 
 
 "But I will say this to you, I was complicit with this White House deceiving this nation," she said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. 
 
 "They continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is," Manigault Newman said, adding: "How difficult it is for him to process complex information. How he is not engaged in some of the most important decisions that impacts our country. I was complicit, and for that I regret."
– The long-rumored "Trump Tapes," alleged Apprentice outtakes in which the host uses the n-word, are in the news again—and President Trump is insisting that they don't exist. Trump tweeted Monday night that Apprentice executive producer Mark Burnett had called him "to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa." He was using his new nickname for former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman, who says she heard a tape in which Trump used the slur multiple times during filming. "I don't have that word in my vocabulary, and never have," Trump said in his tweet. "She made it up." Tom Arnold, who has previously claimed to have the tapes, tweeted Monday night that Trump and Burnett are lying, the Hollywood Reporter notes. "Apprentice Employees gave statements about @realdonaldtrump saying multiple 'n' words on the set of @ApprenticeNBC & 100 other horrible things," Arnold said. "I spoke to 2 Executive Producers & Mark Burnett in person. They all said Trump's a liar & there is #TrumpTapes." Trump administration official Lynne Patton issued a statement Monday night saying she spoke to former Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt and he firmly denied ever playing the damning tape to Omarosa, reports Business Insider. The tape "is a figment of her imagination and merely a destructive tool of manipulation applied only when it best serves her interests," she said.