Trump's future may be in the hands of a Democrat named Mark Burnett.

He's the Apprentice producer who controls mountains of taped evidence of the Donald -- behaving as he always does.

The Donald wants us to believe that the single tape was an aberration. It's not. And now it's up to Mark Burnett to release the evidence that he has.

This article was written about Burnett when rumors were flying that he was helping to produce the Republican convention -- not about the current controversy. But he's in the middle of this one, because he controls many tapes that are said to support everything we saw in the tape released today.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/donald-trump-mark-burnett-republican-convention

Despite Burnett's entertainment partnership with Trump, his participation in the convention would be surprising, for in recent years, he and wife, actress and producer Roma Downey, have been financial supporters of Democrats.

In 2008, Burnett and Downey each gave the maximum donation permissible to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. After Obama won the White House, Burnett donated a hefty $30,400 to the Democratic National Committee. In the previous election cycle, Downey, who starred in the television show Touched by an Angel, supported John Kerry's presidential bid. In 2013, Burnett gave $5,200 to Alison Grimes, a Democrat who was challenging Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. Last September, Downey sent a donation to Kathleen Matthews, a Democrat (and the wife of MSNBC's Chris Matthews) who was running for a congressional seat in suburban Maryland outside of Washington, DC.

Their political donations seem standard for a Hollywood couple. There is no record of either donating to a national Republican candidate in the past two decades.

Burnett worked with Trump on The Apprentice, but would he now want to tie his brand to Trump's? These days, he and Downey are launching their big-budget remake of Ben-Hur, which will hit theaters in August. At a recent screening of the movie—which was held after the horrific mass-shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando—Downey said, "There's things clearly happening in the world and we put this film together to impact culture with the message of love and forgiveness and reconciliation and that's needed now more than ever." She added, "I think that this film at this time hopefully can offer some type of balm for the hurting world that we live in."