PREDATOR-IN-CHIEF Newly released video shows Trump’s public misogyny is matched by private vulgarity and sexual predation
By Max Haldevang, October 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton is fond of reminding people how Donald Trump has called women “pigs, dogs and slobs”–and that’s just what he says in public. But it’s just got even worse.
If we ever needed further proof that Ivanka Trump’s claim her father is a “feminist” is nonsense, a video unearthed from 2005 shows that indisputably–as he talks about how, as a “star,” women let him “grab them by the pussy–you can do anything.”
Sitting in a bus with Access Hollywood presenter Billy Bush, Trump talks about an unnamed woman, who, he repeatedly says in a boastful tone, was married.
“I did try and fuck her. She was married,” he said in the video obtained by The Washington Post, describing how he “took her out” furniture shopping to win her over.
“I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.”
This comes a week after Trump intimated he could open up attacks on Hillary Clinton’s marriage and insisted infidelity “was never a problem” in his relationships–despite having had an affair with Marla Maples, whom he later married, during his first marriage to Ivana Trump. The video was shot several months after Trump married his current wife Melania, according to the Post, though it’s not clear when the events he was talking about took place.
He doesn’t seem off the prowl in the video, however, as the two move on to objectify actor Arianne Zucker (who Trump is about to meet and seems to refer to as “it”), asking for tic-tacs in case he’s compelled to throw himself on her.
“I’ve gotta use some tic tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” he says.“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything…grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
Trump’s campaign tried to brush off the video: “This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course—not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended,” a spokesperson wrote in an email, attributing the quote directly to Trump.
Billy Bush now works as a presenter on NBC’s Today Show, which did not immediately reply to an emailed request for comment.
The video was clearly not intended for broadcast but both Trump and Bush are wearing microphones. Soon after its release today, Hillary Clinton weighed in via Twitter:
Hillary Clinton ✔ @HillaryClinton...................................................................................................................................................................
This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president. https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/784484724131717124 …
1:55 PM - 7 Oct 2016
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Trump in 2005 video: 'When you're a star' you can grope women
By Cooper Allen and Fredreka Schouten, October 7, 2016
Donald Trump boasts that, as a "star," women let him do anything he wants, in a 2005 video obtained by The Washington Post that features the real estate mogul using salacious language as he brags of kissing and groping women he's attracted to.
In the video posted Friday, Trump and Billy Bush, the former Access Hollywood host now with NBC's Today show, engage in graphic discussions en route to the Days of Our Lives set, where Trump is set to record a piece about an upcoming appearance on the soap opera.
"I did try and f--- her," Trump tells Bush in reference to a married woman, while acknowledging he was unsuccessful. "I moved on her like a b---- but I couldn't get there," Trump says.
Later in the video, as Trump and Bush spot Arianne Zucker — who The Post says was there to escort them to the set for the segment — the real estate mogul says: "I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her," adding that he immediately starts kissing "beautiful" women when he encounters them.
"I don't even wait." Trump says. "And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything — grab them by the p----."
In a statement shortly after the video's release, Trump dismisses its importance.
“This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago," the GOP presidential nominee says. "Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course — not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended.”
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus issued a short, but blistering statement Friday night, denouncing the GOP nominee's language.
"No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever," Priebus said.
Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, tweeted that the latest revelations were "horrific."
Hillary Clinton ✔ @HillaryClinton"We cannot allow this man to become president," she wrote.
This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president. https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/784484724131717124 …
1:55 PM - 7 Oct 2016
The video's release comes two days before a critical presidential debate where Trump hopes to rebound following a widely criticized performance in his opening face-off with Clinton.
In that debate, Clinton brought up a former Miss Universe's allegations that Trump had called her "Miss Piggy" and had made other disparaging remarks. That exchange led to days of the GOP nominee attempting to defend his actions, culminating in a series of tweets posted in the early morning hours by Trump in which he further attacked Alicia Machado, including referring to a sex tape.
The episode, as well as a recent Associated Press story that reported Trump often used lewd language when referring to female contestants on The Apprentice, amplified criticisms of Trump's treatment of women and overall fitness to be president.
Following the release of the video, Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement that Trump's language "amounts to sexual assault."
"Trump's behavior is disgusting and unacceptable in any context, and it is disqualifying for a man who is running for president of this country," she said.
One of Trump's primary rivals, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, wrote on Twitter Friday that "no apology can excuse away Donald Trump's reprehensible comments degrading women."
Jeb Bush ✔ @JebBushAnother of Trump's former Republican opponents, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, tweeted that "the comments were wrong and offensive. They are indefensible."
As the grandfather of two precious girls, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump's reprehensible comments degrading women.
4:05 PM - 7 Oct 2016
John Kasich ✔ @JohnKasichBoth Bush and Kasich have declined to endorse the GOP nominee.
Make no mistake the comments were wrong and offensive. They are indefensible.
4:31 PM - 7 Oct 2016
However, there were no immediate signs that the Republican donors, who only recently have begun to open their wallets to Trump, were abandoning him over the latest controversy.
Texas investor Doug Deason, whose family has contributed a combined $1 million to Trump and the Republican National Committee, called the tape’s release a “big brouhaha about nothing.”
“Anybody that’s shocked is faking it,” Deason told USA TODAY Friday evening.
“We’re a nation that believes in redemption,” he added. “That’s who he was then, and that’s not who he is now.”
Deason said Trump should quickly issue a new statement, well ahead of Sunday’s town-hall debate, making it clear that “he has changed.”
Deasons are influential players in conservative politics. Billionaire patriarch Darwin Deason made his fortune in the data-processing business, and the family initially backed former Texas governor Rick Perry and then Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in their bids for the Republican nomination.
Doug Deason said the family now has raised about $5 million to $6 million for Trump on top of the $1 million in direct donations.
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