As you’ve probably heard by now, former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in a book out today that there are tapes of Donald Trump using the n-word repeatedly on the set of The Apprentice, the show where the two first crossed paths. Do these tapes exists? The former senior adviser to the president has already released a recording in which Chief of Staff John Kelly can be heard firing her, but so far, she’s yet to reveal the ones involving the racial slur in question. Which doesn’t mean they aren’t out there, or that it would be impossible to imagine the former real-estate developer saying such a thing, given that he:

One person who clearly believes there’s a possibility such tapes exist? White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who on Tuesday refused to go on the record saying otherwise. In response to a question about whether she had asked Trump directly whether he’d used the slur, Sanders initially deployed her characteristic line of bulls--t, responding that she “didn‘t have to because he addressed it to the American people all at one time,” referring to his denial on Twitter. And yet, when pressed whether she could “guarantee that the American people will never hear Donald Trump utter the n-word,” the woman who’s had zero issue lying on behalf of the president in the past admitted that she couldn’t. “I can’t guarantee anything,” Sanders told reporter Kristen Welker. “I can tell you that I’ve never heard it.”

Why couldn’t Sanders guarantee it? Likely because, deep down inside, she knows there’s more than a slight possibility that Trump has uttered the n-word, and doesn’t want to be on the record claiming otherwise. But she’s still a good little solider, which is why after admitting there’s a chance the American people will hear the president use a term that’s beyond the pale, she rolled out the argument that it’s highly unlikely, seeing as Trump is apparently all about black people. “This is a president who is fighting for all Americans, who is putting policies in place that help all Americans, particularly African-American,” Sanders claimed before trotting out some statistics about black employment numbers being on the rise, and falsely claiming that Trump has done more for black people than Barack Obama:

No further questions!