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Three separate sources, all of whom requested anonymity due to nondisclosure agreements with the show, told the Daily Beast that the Republican candidate, 70, insulted the accomplished actress and advocate, 51, just because she is hearing impaired, when she appeared the NBC show in 2011. He made the comments both in front of her and behind her back.

According to one source, Trump would take notes during the infamous boardroom showdowns. On one day, as the room was being cleaned after filming, one of the pieces of paper he wrote on was collected. It read, “Marlee, is she retarded??” according to someone on the set who saw and handled the paper.

A second source said the controversial politico also made fun of her voice. The person, who worked on The Apprentice for years, said, “It actually sounded a lot like what he did [to] the New York Times guy,” referring to when Trump mocked a disabled reporter. “Like, to make it seem like she was mentally not there? [It] sounded like he got a real kick out of it. It was really upsetting.”

Yet another source said that Matlin, who came in second place on the show, was a Trump target all season.

“In the boardroom, he would talk to her like she was ‘special,’” the source said. “He took her deafness as some kind of [mental] handicap … He would kind of do these mock voices … I think he would take the low road and mock her disability.”

Once, when Trump made an “insensitive” comment about Matlin’s deafness while filming, she “stood up for herself,” the source added. The exchange didn’t air in the final cut of the episode.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/donald-trump-called-deaf-apprentice-contestant-marlee-matlin-retarded-treated-her-like-she-was-handicapped-report-144145354.html

 

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Letmelivemylife

*bangs head against the wall* I can't believe he is seriously running for president. What he did is absolutely disgusting. Unfortunately, the deaf or wheelchair bound are often treated as if they are mentally handicapped. My best friend Jenny's oldest child has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair to get around. If Jenny had a dollar for every time someone spoke to her daughter like she has mentally handicapped, she would be a millionaire. Restaurants are the worst about it. The waiter/waitress always asks Jenny "what will she have?" In reference to he daughter. The look on their face is always priceless when her daughter looks them square in the eye and says "please don't speak about me like I'm not even here"

I love you monsters. I'd be unfixably broken without you
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ItsTommyBitch
3 hours ago, Adakam said:

Locker room talk guyzzzzzz!!!!!!

High School Locker/Hallway talk :sis: 

私自身もこの世の中も誰もかれもが, どんなに華やかな人生でも, どんなに悲惨な人生でも, いつかは変貌し, 破壊され、消滅してしまう. すべてがもともとこの世に存在しない一瞬の幻想なのだから
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Squidward T

LMAO, where is the audio of him saying this? Who is this "source"?, until there's actual proof or audio it's an allegation. If he thought this way, why did she win?  

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