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1.https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-ari-emanuel-cover-for-donald-trump-on-the-miss-universe-tapes
Did Ari Emanuel Cover for Donald Trump on the Miss Universe Tapes?
In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Democrats were desperate to obtain and release tapes from the archives of Donald Trump’s reality-TV show The Apprentice. There was a similar scramble conducted in the final 10 days of the campaign that was not revealed publicly at the time: a search for tapes from the Miss Universe Organization archives, which, until last year, Trump owned.
According to four sources,Donald Trump’s longtime friend and former agent Ari Emanueldeclined appeals from powerful Democrats to release tapes filmed while Trump owned the Miss Universe Organization (which also owns the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants). The Daily Beast spoke to more than a dozen people for this story, including former and current WME-IMG clients, Clinton and Obama campaign insiders, and former Miss Universe Organization employees. The sources spoke only on the condition of anonymity given Emanuel’s vast influence in the entertainment industry and his penchant for holding grudges.
Emanuel, 55, is a powerhouse talent agent who is notorious in the entertainment business for his aggressive, hard-charging negotiating style. His lineage is also legendary—he is the brother of Ezekiel, or “Zeke,” a renowned oncologist and one of the architects of Obamacare, and Rahm, the former White House chief of staff and current mayor of Chicago.
Ari Emanuel, through the company of which he is co-CEO, WME-IMG, bought 100 percent of the Miss Universe Organization from Trump in 2015; but he refused requests to release or even look into what tapes were held in the archives just days before the Nov. 8 election. At one point, sources tell The Daily Beast, the Miss Universe archives contained audio and video that could have damaged Trump’s prospects in the presidential race.
The revelation that Emanuel didn’t want to look into what might be in the Miss Universe Organization archives isn’t the only way some feel he aided Trump. Emanuel has been an active and vocal Democrat in the past, using his checkbook, fundraising network, and bully pulpit to advocate for his candidates of choice, but was silent in the general election, neither defending or fundraising for Hillary Clinton nor speaking out against Trump.
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