{"id":3760,"date":"2017-04-27T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T08:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:53:14","slug":"irs-spoof-video-of-donald-trump-and-the-apprentice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/irs-spoof-video-of-donald-trump-and-the-apprentice\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Spoof Video of Donald Trump and \u2018The Apprentice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Background<\/h3>\n

The Internal Revenue Service created a video parody of Donald Trump\u2019s television show \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d which was broadcast at a 2011 conference held by the IRS\u2019s Small Business\/Self-Employed Division (SB\/SE).<\/p>\n

The video features a group of IRS employees impersonating contestants on the program and one impersonating Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and contestants of the competition show.<\/p>\n

The video was obtained via a Freedom of Information Act Request by The Black Vault, and still outstanding on the FOIA request, are documents relating to the budget, drafts or the scripts, outtakes, etc. This page will be updated, as those documents come in.<\/p>\n

\u00a0FOIA Response dated December 15, 2016<\/a> [1 Pages, 0.5MB]<\/p>\n

\u00a0Responsive Records \/ Emails \/ Budgets Released April 12, 2017<\/a>\u00a0[41 Pages, 3.9MB]<\/p>\n

https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/irs\/irs-apprentice-emailsbudgets.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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