Former 'Apprentice' producer Bill Pruitt tells all on the Trump he knew

Pruitt had been unable to write or talk about his time on the show for the past two decades: He and other producers had to sign nondisclosure agreements with serious financial penalties if they were broken. That NDA lapsed recently, paving the way for Pruitt to write about his time working with Trump. Pruitt says the show created an aura around Trump that proved instrumental in propelling him to the White House.

“He was not, by any stretch, a successful New York real estate tycoon like we made him out to be,” he says. “We needed to legitimize Donald Trump as someone who all these young, capable people would be clamoring over one another trying to get a job working for.”