Following revelations about the outsized role The Apprentice played in Trump’s reinvention, The Hollywood Reporter talked to former NBC insiders who provide new detail on his brazen demands (including large donations to his ill-fated foundation) and the way the network enabled him: “We had to build all kinds of systems with producers to make sure the show stayed on the rails. He was the perfect character: unfiltered stream of consciousness, crazy, well-edited to appear cohesive.”
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