Did Donald Trump use the N-word?

Ongoing allegations that a tape of Donald Trump using the N-word have resurfaced, after the White House refused to deny that those tapes might exist.

The Washington Post says that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders “declined to vouch” for Trump, when asked directly if there was a tape recording of the US president using racial slurs, saying: “I can’t guarantee anything.”

The Atlantic describes Sanders’ “non-denial” as “striking”, given that the “existence of such a tape has been rumoured since before the 2016 election”.

The alleged recording of Trump using racial slurs was purportedly recorded during the taping of his reality TV show, The Apprentice.

Rumours of the recording have resurfaced after former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman released her tell-all book about life inside the Trump administration.

Trump has repeatedly denied using racial slurs on Twitter, most recently saying “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have”, before describing Manigault-Newman as “wacky” and a “dog”.