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Trump Campaign Denounces 'The Apprentice' After Screenwriter Admits Gay Blackmail Scene Is a 'Fictionalization'

If you've seen Ali Abbasi's Donald Trump origin story The Apprentice, you may be wondering if there's any truth to the blackmail scene scene

“This ‘film’ is pure malicious defamation, should never see the light of day, and doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store, it belongs in a dumpster fire.” It is included in the new book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Succes, by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writers Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig. Lucky Loser reports that when the Justice Department filed the 1973 housing discrimination suit, Fred Trump, who had spent years fending off federal inquiries into his business practices, enlisted his longtime “friend and fixer” Abraham “Bunny” Lindenbaum to make the case “go away quickly and quietly.”

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