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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRNC Paying Ex-Producer Who Has Dirt on Trump
Last year, the Republican National Convention began cutting checks to a former producer of NBCs Celebrity Apprentice who was accused of having, as one contestant put it, all the dirt on Donald Trump, the Daily Beast reports.
Labella is not just a former Apprentice bigwig. According to actor Tom Arnold, who was a contestant on the show and has since become a vociferous Trump critic, Labella was in possession of Trumps ostensibly salaciousand, in political and media circles, long-soughtbehind-the-scenes Apprentice outtakes.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/01/rnc-paying-former-producer-who-has-trump-dirt/
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RNC Paying Ex-Producer Who Has Dirt on Trump (Original Post)
RandySF
Jul 2020
OP
Kicking for visibility. More from the Daily Beast article that Political Wire article refers to:
highplainsdem
Jul 2020
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Skittles
(157,038 posts)1. so tired of hearing about the Aprentice outtakes
still_one
(94,850 posts)3. +++ and you can add Tom Arnold to that list also
LonePirate
(13,806 posts)2. He is a piece of shit if he values that hush money more than saving America.
jimlup
(8,002 posts)4. So speaking of Tom Arnold where the hell is all the dirt he promised?
One source I ignore at the moment is Tom Arnold.
highplainsdem
(51,462 posts)5. Kicking for visibility. More from the Daily Beast article that Political Wire article refers to:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rnc-is-paying-a-former-apprentice-hand-chuck-labella-accused-of-having-trump-dirt
Arnolds accusations are often brushed aside by Trumpworld as conspiracy-mongering. But the charges he leveled were reportedly serious enough that Trumps then personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, helped situate Labella with a close attorney, Keith Davidson, in late 2017. Davidsons name became prominent for his representation of another Trump-adjacent personality: porn star Stormy Daniels, for whom he helped arrange hush money payments in order to maintain her silence about her alleged affair with Trump. Davidson did not return a request for comment.
The Republican convention committees disbursements to Labellas firm appear to be the first payments ever made by a federal political committee to either Labella personally or his company. But a Republican National Committee spokesperson described his role for the convention as that of a standard event producer.
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A spokesperson for Labella did not respond to questions about his work for the convention, and whether it had anything to do with his past role with NBC.
California records say that Labella Worldwide, Inc was incorporated in 2017. His IMDB page lists him as a producer on The Apprentice through 2013. He also worked on the Miss Universe Pageant and was reportedly in Moscow with Trump for the 2013 event there. In March 2017, The Wrap reported that he amicably parted ways with NBC. Its unclear what he did between then and his stint with Holey Moley in 2019.
The Republican convention committees disbursements to Labellas firm appear to be the first payments ever made by a federal political committee to either Labella personally or his company. But a Republican National Committee spokesperson described his role for the convention as that of a standard event producer.
-snip-
A spokesperson for Labella did not respond to questions about his work for the convention, and whether it had anything to do with his past role with NBC.
California records say that Labella Worldwide, Inc was incorporated in 2017. His IMDB page lists him as a producer on The Apprentice through 2013. He also worked on the Miss Universe Pageant and was reportedly in Moscow with Trump for the 2013 event there. In March 2017, The Wrap reported that he amicably parted ways with NBC. Its unclear what he did between then and his stint with Holey Moley in 2019.