"On October 7th, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a video of Trump, circa 2005, chatting merrily on a bus with Billy Bush, the co-anchor of "Access Hollywood," as Trump prepared to make a guest appearance on an episode of the soap opera "Days of Our Lives." Trump bragged of his impulsivity. "I don't even wait. And, when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," he said. "Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.""
"In the same session, Trump was recorded saying that he had tried and failed to seduce Bush's co-host at the time, Nancy O'Dell. "I did try and fuck her. She was married," he said. "And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. . . . I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn't get there.""
"Initially, Trump failed to follow the dictum he had learned at the feet of Roy Cohn: Never apologize, never explain. After a fashion, he did both. He minimized the offense as "locker-room talk," adding that his opponent's husband, Bill Clinton, had "said far worse to me on the golf course." Soon, however, he began denying that the recording was even genuine."
A 2005 recording captured Donald Trump boasting about sexual access to women and saying, "Grab 'em by the pussy," while speaking with Billy Bush. The tape also recorded Trump describing an attempted seduction of Nancy O'Dell and boasting of moving on her "like a bitch." Trump initially characterized the remarks as "locker-room talk," compared them to comments by Bill Clinton, and later questioned the recording's authenticity. When confronted in debate about bragging of sexual assault, Trump attempted to change the subject and insisted that he respected women. The recording highlighted attitudes about women, sex, and celebrity privilege.
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