No story illustrates so succinctly the mainstream media’s dive deep into the tank for Hillary Clinton than the year-long Easter Egg hunt for supposed outtakes from The Apprentice that would sink the presidential candidacy of its 11-year host, Donald Trump.

In the end, though, after months and months of journalistic frenzy, it has proved impossible to say whether the “Worse Than Access Hollywood” outtake tapes actually exist, or if they do, where they could possibly be. The closest that anyone has gone on the record to claim to possessing one of the elusive tapes is comedian and onetime Roseanne Barr spouse Tom Arnold, who told a Seattle radio-show host that he actually owns an outtake, put together long before Trump began his presidential race in 2015, in which “he says every bad thing ever, every offensive, racist thing ever. . . . It was him sitting in that chair saying the N-word, saying the C-word, calling his son a retard, just being so mean to his own children.”