TMZ: NBC Timed Leak of Trump Tape to Cause Most Damage and Influence The Election
Execs also lied about how long they had the tape.
by Tiffany Gabbay
Despite generating the network ratings and revenue for nearly 12 years with his series The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice, NBC executives reportedly released the tape of Donald Trump’s and Billy Bush’s lewd banter in order to influence the presidential election.
Of course this comes as a shock to no one — neither the the left-wing bias and effort to influence the election, nor the fact that the media-entertainment complex did what it does best: stab people, including colleagues, in the back.
Sources within NBC told TMZ that many NBC execs have disdain for Trump and wanted to dominate the news cycle and the second presidential election with news that would damage him. TMZ adds that “top network [NBC] execs knew about the video long before they publicly said they did, but wanted to hold it because it was too early in the election.”
Other NBC lies allegedly exposed by TMZ include the claim that NBC only knew about the tapes for a little more than a week. As it turns out, the network had the tape for longer. They’d also planned to edit the tape in order to minimize Billy Bush’s presence. TMZ adds:
We’re told the plan was to edit the tape to keep the focus on Trump and not Billy. “Access Hollywood” we’re told was not going to air the portion where Trump and Billy got off the bus and Billy goaded Trump and the soap star to hug. Our sources say the tape was going to be “sanitized” to protect Billy as much as possible.
Case in point … after The Washington Post ran the story, ‘Access’ aired their footage and cut out the parts where Billy looked worse — saying things like, “Jeez! Your girl’s hot as s*** in the purple!”
Apparently Hurricane Matthew delayed the planned release of the tape, which is why it got leaked to the Washington Post for publication just prior to the debate.
What’s more, according to one of TMZ’s sources, “NBC really screwed Billy. They had no problem with him on the tape ’till it got leaked.'”
Few should be shocked to learn that NBC executives act like prostitutes, selling their own former cash-cows and employees down the river to further their own agenda.