WASHINGTON - Donald Trump issued an apology on Friday, Oct. 7, after the release of a video in which the Republican presidential candidate was recorded on an open microphone in 2005 talking in vulgar terms about trying to have sex with women.

"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,” Trump said in a statement released by his campaign.

The video, released in a Washington Post story, was recorded while Trump was speaking with TV host Billy Bush of "Access Hollywood" while they were about to tape a segment about a planned cameo appearance by the New York businessman on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives," the Post reported.
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Trump has faced repeated criticism for his comments about women, most recently involving his attacks on a former beauty queen with a vague and unsubstantiated allegation about a sex tape in predawn Twitter posts that prompted Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to denounce him as "unhinged."

In a statement, Trump said, "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." </s> “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.”

— Donald Trump, apologizing(?) for leaked footage of him talking to Billy Bush in 2005, saying that, among other things, “when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything… Grab them by the p–y,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”

Ah, yes, just locker room banter. As far as I can tell, the conversations in men’s locker rooms all must go something like this.

First man: Phew! Thank goodness. It was exhausting to have to walk through the world talking to all those women as though they were just people, like us. Clearly, they are not. They are women. Their bodies exist for us to look at and do sex to.

Second Man: I do sex constantly! I obtained a great deal of sex today from the many walking sex dispensers that are to be found drifting through the world! I must obtain as much as possible from the best-looking dispensers so that I can win respect from fellow men like you!

First Man: I will, if you will promise not to take paternity leave!

Second Man: I promise! Boy, I am exhausted! I saw a woman at work today in clothes, and I thought about sex. I wish that she had worn different clothes so that this would not happen. Sex is my right as a human being, and I do not understand why it would be withheld ever, under any circumstances.

Third Man: That is a violent term.

Second Man: I bet you slay a lot of women.

First Man: (winking) At least 30. (winking more) I left their remains along the highway. (winking more) Their families will not find them.

Third Man: This is kind of violent, and I am not sure it is just a double entendre any more.

Second Man: Trevor, please. What are you, a GIRL? This is more of that political correctness that is ruining everything.

First Man: Thank you for saying something. We need to preserve places like this. Every time women come into male spaces, they are ruined.

Second Man: I agree. It is too bad that my exes are crazy.

First Man: All of them?

Second Man: Yes, 100 percent. It is amazing how every woman I date turns out to have severe mental problems the moment she ceases to date me.

It must be nice to have a magical room where you can go, drop your pants and pretend for a few glorious hours that women are not people.

A repellent, but remarkably unexamined, idea that we carry around in society with us is the notion that somehow this is OK. That this is just boys being boys. That we must give boys a safe, unpolluted, secret space where they can stop the exhausting charade of acting as though women contain the same internal worlds that they do themselves.

This is what it gets back to: the idea that men are people, and women are just women.

Of course what Donald Trump said is awful. But, as Kelly Oxford noted on Twitter, it’s the fact that Billy Bush just nodded along that gives us rape culture.

It’s the idea that boys will be boys, and it does not matter what you leave in your wake, because you are the protagonist of this story, and the girl is just . . . an appealing body, to be discussed and dissected at leisure when you are back in one of the myriad locker rooms of daily life. If that.

This is egregious, but it is not isolated. It’s every time the Serious Concern is that a young man’s life might theoretically be ruined — by the act of punishing him for what he did to ruin someone else’s life. It’s every time someone talks about how awful something would be if it happened to your wife or your daughter or your mother — instead of just to you, to a person. Every time women’s existence is limited to their relationship to men. Every time women are treated merely as gatekeepers of sex, a resource that is somehow obtainable without the enthusiastic participation of another person who might have opinions on the matter. Every time men don’t read books by women, every time boys can’t find it in themselves to identify with a female protagonist. Every time people look at a movie with one woman in it and nine men and say “yes, this seems fine.” Every time we say to little girls in countless ways that what matters is how you look, not what you think.

Some of these things seem smaller than others, but every tiny detail adds up to a terrifying denial of the idea that women have the same kind of internal reality that men do. And that gets us to conversations like this and thoughts like this.

That’s the world where Donald Trump lives: a world where men are people, and women are women. Not quite people. Something different. That’s why Trump was always famously telling female employees that a man was better than a woman, but that a good woman is better than 10 good men.

Would you say this about any other category of person and treat it like a compliment? No, of course you would not.

He lives in a world where the highest compliment you can give a woman — even your own daughter — is that you would sleep with her. And it’s not creepy, because — well, what else might a woman possibly want?

That is the awful thing about this conversation. It is not that it is especially lewd, although it is. It is not that it is violent and awful and wrong, although it is. It is the fact that it is, within certain circles, still quite normal. It’s the fact that Donald Trump used, as a defense, the idea that he’d said much worse.

It’s the fact that when Billy Bush heard him, Bush did not stop the bus they were riding on and say, “MY GOD, MAN, YOU ARE SICK! THIS IS SICK! THIS IS AWFUL!” He nodded. He laughed. You had the sense that Donald Trump could have escalated still further — past non-consensually grabbing people by the p–y (that’s sexual assault, by the way) — and into building himself a coat from female skin before Bush would have begun pushing back.

And even then, he might just have giggled.

Alexandra Petri writes The Washington Post’s ComPost blog. Follow her on Twitter: @petridishes

To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. </s> Michael D'Antonio is the author of the new book , "The Truth About Trump." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.

Donald Trump didn't apologize for insisting the Central Park Five were guilty, years after their exoneration. He didn't apologize for insisting the President of the United States wasn't an American. He didn't apologize for his hurtful comments about two Gold Star parents or about an Indiana-born judge of Mexican heritage. Or about immigrants or women or people with disabilities.

But after The Washington Post revealed Friday a tape that caught Trump bragging about being a sexual predator, the Republican candidate issued a statement in which he said, " I apologize if anyone was offended."

In the discussion, laced with profanity, one of the milder elements of Trump's remarks was the phrase, "I moved on her like a bitch." He was, at the time, the father of four and just months into his marriage to the former Melania Knauss, a model.

In addition to using the timeworn caveat "if anyone was offended," Trump modified his apology with the excuse that he had merely indulged in "locker room banter."

He also tried to divert attention to his opponent Hillary Clinton's husband. "Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course," said Trump in a written statement, adding, "not even close."

Setting aside the weaseling modifiers, the smear of Clinton, and the fact that Trump must have hung out in the locker room with some pretty awful men, his expression of regret was nevertheless a milestone.

"He was doing OK," recalled Trump, "'til he said he was sorry."

But most of all, he wanted to know if Trump would ever apologize for his years-long effort to delegitimize President Obama by repeatedly suggesting he was not born in the United States.

Having dragged the country and the President through years of false accusations, Trump had the opportunity to apologize in September, when he summoned the press to an announcement related to this issue. He spent nearly a half hour listening to veterans praise him and then quickly admitted, "Barack Obama was born in the United States, period."

No apology was made. Instead, Trump repeated the false claims that the president's birthplace had been in doubt, and that Hillary Clinton had started the whole controversy.

The worst aspect of the "birther" controversy was the way that it consigned the president to the status of "other" in a way that was inherently racist. No previous presidents -- they were all white -- were subjected to such a concerted effort to suggest they were foreign-born. Similarly, none had heard their Christian faith challenged in the way that Trump challenged Obama's by wondering, aloud, if his records indicated he was Muslim.

More recently, Trump refused to acknowledge a mistake, or apologize for inflaming the public outrage over the shocking rape and assault of woman in Central Park in 1989. At the time, Trump bought full-page advertisements in New York newspapers to declare, "BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!"

In the ad, which bore his signature, Trump referenced "roving bands of wild criminals" and said, "I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and when they kill they should be executed for their crimes."

He also told CNN's Larry King that year, "Maybe hate is what we need" in response to the crime in the park.

Instead of taking responsibility and acknowledging reality, Trump said, "They admitted they were guilty. The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same."

As he often does, Trump offered Marquez only the most convenient facts to justify a simplistic position on a complex issue and avoid admitting he might have done something wrong. The Central Park Five, as they are known, did confess to various crimes under extended police questioning and implicated each other. However they were subjected to improper interrogation techniques, without access to parents or lawyers, and their so-called confessions were without merit.

In standing by his original position on the Central Park case, Trump exhibited a variation on his no apologies strategy that might be called "doubling down."

Like a gambler who shows his confidence by adding to a bet, Trump has often repeated outrageous comments and impolitic observations in order to show that he is a straight-talking person who won't be politically correct. He has done this with his false claim that he opposed the war in Iraq when he didn't, and when he said that Obama was the founder of the ISIS terrorist group and then repeated the claim.

Why did Trump change course this time, pulling a Jimmy the Greek by admitting he did something wrong? It's likely that among the people he offended are his wife, his children, his running mate and millions of voters. Also, the existence of the audio recording makes his behavior impossible to deny.

Finally, he had no option for doubling down. Not even Trump could hear himself saying such awful things and then tell the world he would say them again, and add something worse.

Should the limited mea culpa change the way we regard Trump? The caviling tells us we should not. By offering excuses, and pointing a finger at Bill Clinton, he has maintained his standing as a dangerous and juvenile 70-year-old man. </s> Video of a lewd conversation Donald Trump had with then-Access Hollywood host Billy Bush during a 2005 bus ride to a studio where the real estate mogul was to tape an episode of Days of Our Lives is turning out to be the bombshell October surprise of the fall campaign season so far.

The video, revealed by The Washington Post this afternoon, captures GOP presidential nominee Trump revealing some of his feelings about how to treat women to whom he's attracted.

"You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them," he says. "It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait."

"And when you’re a star, they let you do it," Trump says. "You can do anything."

"Whatever you want," says a man who sounds like Bush.

"Grab them by the pussy,” Trump says. "You can do anything."

In a statement today Trump painted the conversation as private "locker room banter" that paled in comparison to some of things Trump says he's heard President Bill Clinton say on the golf course. " ... Not even close," the candidate said.

"I apologize if anyone was offended," Trump stated.

Bush, now co-host of NBC's Today, said he's "very sorry" for his taped remarks. "Obviously I'm embarrassed and ashamed," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "It's no excuse, but this happened eleven years ago — I was younger, less mature, and acted foolishly in playing along."

The "hot-mic" remarks were made as Trump rode an Access Hollywood "Access Across America Tour" bus on a studio lot and after he disembarked to head to the taping. At the time it appears Days of Our Lives was recorded at The Burbank Studios, run by NBC in Burbank.

Reaction to the video was swift and damning, with Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, saying on Twitter, "This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president."

Women's advocacy group UltraViolet called Trump "a dangerous, predatory misogynist and this video further proves that he should never be allowed to step foot in the White House," according to a statement.

The Latino Victory Fund weighed in, too.

"We are appalled and disturbed by Trump’s disgusting, piggish comments towards women," said César J. Blanco, the organization's interim director. "Trump is not pathologically capable of treating women like human beings. His misogynistic behavior is a disturbing pattern that we have seen time and time again and that we cannot continue to tolerate or ignore. If we ignore his attacks against women, we will certainly undo decades of hard work and hard-fought battles for women’s rights. Our nation cannot thrive and prosper if women’s civil rights are not guaranteed, and we all have the responsibility to condemn Trump and any man who threatens women’s rights." </s> Sparks flew and toys were thrown out of the pram during a bad tempered second US presidential debate .

Donald Trump came under heavy fire for his lewd video scandal while Hillary Clinton was quizzed for the umpteenth time over her emails.

Clinton was hailed as the winner although commentators agreed Trump performed better than the first debate on September 26.

Here are the key moments from last night's debate.

Trump threw a curveball just over an hour before the debate after met with women who have accused former US president Bill Clinton of rape and other unwanted sexual advances.

The Republican nominees pre-debate event was thought to be a sign that he planned to use Mr Clinton as a distraction from the controversy over his own predatory remarks about women.

During the debate he said "there's never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that's been so abusive to women" as Mr Clinton.
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When the candidates were introduced to the audience, they did not shake hands when they arrived on stage.

Instead, the pair stood side by side before the debate kicked off.

However, they did shake hands after 90 minutes of tense exchanges.

The tape recording of Trump in which he talks about grabbing women "by the p***y" plunged his campaign into turmoil - making the debate even more eagerly anticipated.

"This was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it. I've apologised to my family. I've apologised to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it, but this is locker room talk," he said.

Trump also said he has "great respect" for women.

But the billionaire businessman attempted to deflect the question about his apparent condoning of sexual assault by vowing to defeat ISIS.

Clinton says Trump tape shows 'exactly who he is'

The Democratic candidate said the comments about women made in the tape by Trump represent "exactly who he is".

Clinton said he had insulted women throughout the presidential campaign, saying: "What we all saw and heard on Friday was Donald talking about women, what he thinks about women, what he does to women, and he has said that the video doesn't represent who he is, but I think it's clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is, because we've seen this through the campaign.

"We've seen him insult women, we've seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from one to 10, we've seen him embarrass women on TV and on Twitter."
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Trump would 'throw Clinton in jail' if he was in charge

Trump said Clinton should be in jail over her use of a private email server while she was US secretary of state.

He said: "I hate to say it but if I win I'm going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation."

In response, Clinton said: "It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in this country."

And Trump replied: "Because you'd be in jail."

After Donald Trump's accusations about her husband, Hillary Clinton said a lot of what he had said was "not right".

She said what came to mind was advice from friend First Lady Michelle Obama - "When they go low, you go high".

Clinton said everyone can draw their own conclusions about whether Trump respects women.

Trump disagrees with his OWN running mate Mike Pence

Trump sounded the most indignant when he pressed Clinton on US foreign policy in Syria, Libya and other areas of the Middle East.

But curiously, he revealed that he diverged from his running mate when it came to the question of whether he supported Pence's threat to strike the military targets of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"He and I haven't spoken, and I disagree," Trump said.

It was an interesting comment - one that will likely continue to raise questions of Trump's past praise of the Russians, who are backing the Syrian leader.
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If you have nothing nice to say...

The final question in the debate drew a chuckle from the two candidates as they were asked to think of something they respected about each other.

Mrs Clinton said: "I respect his children. His children are incredibly able and I think that says a lot about Donald."

Mr Trump said: "I will say this about Hillary - she doesn't quit, she doesn't give up. I tell it like it is. She's a fighter."

Trump made numerous snarky suggestion that moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz were favouring Clinton.

Early on, Raddatz pressed Clinton on the controversy over her use of private email account during her time as Secretary of State and her decision to delete some 33,000 emails. "You don't call that extremely careless?" Raddatz said to Clinton.

After Clinton's two-minute response, Cooper moved the next question on to a new topic. But Trump, the Republican candidate, interjected: "Why haven't you brought up the emails?"

Cooper replied: "We did bring up the emails." As he moved to the fate of Obamacare, Trump said with sarcasm: "It's nice - one on three."

That comment was interpreted as Trump claiming that Raddatz and Cooper were supporting Clinton at his expense.

Trump's suggestion of bias by the debate moderators is in keeping with his past claims that the "mainstream" media coverage of his presidential campaign has been unfair. </s> In a Tuesday tweet that set the internet on fire, President Trump posted a gif showing him tackling "CNN" and raining punches down on the news network's forehead. The gif was taken from Wrestlemania 23 in 2007, in which Trump and WWE CEO Vince McMahon squared off in the "Battle of the Billionaires" (although the actual match was between Bobby Lashley and "The Samoan Bulldozer" Umaga, with Trump supporting the former and McMahon the latter.)

Some found it funny. Some found it outrageous. CNN was not pleased — and perhaps they could have parlayed Trump's tweet into good publicity, had they not somehow topped the president. The gif came from Redditor "HanAssholeSolo," who CNN quickly tracked down and, in their words, "attempted to contact." The next day, HanAssholeSolo issued a lengthy apology on the pro-Trump subreddit r/The_Donald, a post that has since been deleted by the subreddit's moderators.

It was then that CNN posted one of the year's most unsettling statements — something that would sound more appropriate from a mafia don or hacker group than a cable news organization: "'HanA**holeSolo' sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family."

"CNN is not publishing 'HanA**holeSolo's'name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again… CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change." Emphasis ours.

The CNN statement was met with widespread criticism, as a cable news channel available in over 82 percent of American households in effect threatened to dox a reddit user whose only crime was making offensive memes. Prominent among the critics was the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. "So I guess they weren't effective threatening the admin so they go after & bully a 15 y/o? Seems in line w their "standards" #CNNBlackmail" he tweeted on Wednesday.

Junior also retweeted right-wing political consultant Ali Alexander, who called the CNN reporter behind the story, Andrew Kacynski, a "bottomfeeder." "This isn't journalism, this is coercion, requiring capitulation," Ali wrote.

It wasn't only Trump supporters and conservatives who came out against CNN. German Lopez, a Vox reporter who accused Trump of having "lied and bullshitted to the American people" in a recent article, called CNN's actions "extremely unethical."

"Even if you think this jerk deserves it, think about all the other people it would affect — his family, friends, etc. Just awful," he tweeted.

​Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Wikileaks head Julian Assange both went further, suggesting that CNN was in violation of criminal law by threatening "HanAssholeSolo".

CNN denies that the user is a teenager, instead claiming that he is an "adult male."

"CNN never made any deal, of any kind, with the user. In fact, CNN included its decision to withhold the user's identity in an effort to be completely transparent that there was no deal," the network wrote in a follow-up post. </s> (JTA) — The Reddit user who claimed responsibility for the altered video depicting President Donald Trump body slamming someone with CNN superimposed over his head has apologized for the video.

The Reddit user who goes by the handle “HanAssholeSolo” also apologized for other offensive content he posted, which included anti-Semitic and racist imagery, CNN reported Tuesday evening. He also has removed that content from his Reddit account, according to CNN.

CNN’s KFIle reported that it discovered the identity of the man, a private citizen, by using identifying information in his Reddit account and investigating the biographical data garnered from it. Shortly after CNN first attempted to contact him by phone and email, the man posted his apology on Reddit and then called CNN, which said Tuesday evening that it decided not to reveal his name because he said he feared for his personal safety and the damage it would do to his reputation and that of his family.

CNN noted that it “reserves the right to publish his identity” should he again post offensive material.

“First of all, I would like to apologize to the members of the reddit community for getting this site and this sub embroiled in a controversy that should never have happened. I would also like to apologize for the posts made that were racist, bigoted, and anti-semitic. I am in no way this kind of person, I love and accept people of all walks of life and have done so for my entire life. I am not the person that the media portrays me to be in real life, I was trolling and posting things to get a reaction from the subs on reddit and never meant any of the hateful things I said in those posts. I would never support any kind of violence or actions against others simply for what they believe in, their religion, or the lifestyle they choose to have. Nor would I carry out any violence against anyone based upon that or support anyone who did,” he wrote in his apology on Reddit, according to CNN. The apology has since been removed by the moderators of /The_Donald subreddit

“The meme was created purely as satire, it was not meant to be a call to violence against CNN or any other news affiliation. I had no idea anyone would take it and put sound to it and then have it put up on the President’s Twitter feed. It was a prank, nothing more,” he also wrote.

Trump tweeted the gif, or graphics interchange format — a short video that is friendly to multiple platforms — on Sunday. It was drawn from a staged encounter years ago between wrestling impresario Vince McMahon and Trump, who are friends.

The president has feuded with the media generally and CNN specifically in recent days. He has seized on CNN’s retracting of a report linking a Trump ally to a Senate investigation, calling the news network a purveyor of “garbage journalism.” He tagged the gif #FraudNewsCNN, and the official White House account, @POTUS, retweeted it. </s> On July 2, President Donald Trump posted a mock video of himself wrestling CNN over fraud news coverages. The uploaded GIF shows the President of the United States taking down a person with the CNN logo emblazoned on his face. The footage appears to have been taken from April 1, 2007, when former business mogul was pulled to the mat by “Stone Cold” Steve Austin.

Donald Trumps’ tweet has gathered a lot of heat online. The tweet itself has been considered as the most retweeted tweet ever, with more than 331,702 retweets and 556,332 likes. The wrestling video was originally lifted from a post on Reddit for President Trump’s fans. The GIF was posted by a user named HanA****eSolo.

The racist internet troll behind the emblazoning CNN’s logo has issued an official apology.

Redditor HanA****eSolo issued a mea culpa on Tuesday for the offensive remarks. The user, who has wiped out their reddit history, called the Trump-CNN clip “a prank, nothing more.”

The apology is titled “To my fellow redditors in this community, the rest of reddit and the media/public, I apologize.”

HanA****Solo started their latest post by first apologizing to the reddit community for dragging the website and the community under media controversy. He accepted that the created posts were racist, anti-semitic, and bigoted.

He then suggested that he is not a hateful person as the media is presenting him to the world instead, he never supports violence or actions against others simply on race, or the lifestyle they choose to have.

“I am not the person that the media portrays me to be in real life,” they wrote.

HanA***Solo called this troll video an “eye opener” as it has shown to them what others may think about such pranks. He further accepted that free speech is everyone’s right but that does not mean that people can post whatever they wish. He also talked about America’s first amendment and how it protects the media and the press, as reported by CNN.

“What the President’s feed showed was not the original post that was posted here, but loaded up somewhere else and sound added to it then sent out on Twitter. I thought it was the original post that was made and that is why I took credit for it. I have the highest respect for the journalist community and they put their lives on the line every day with the jobs that they do in reporting the news.”

Apparently, this was not the first hate related post that was found on HanA****Solo’s feeds on the reddit. After their Trump-CNN clip went viral, Georgia Southern University assistant professor Jared Yates Sexton tweeted other posts by the redditor.

After Sexton started tweeting the posts, he himself received death threats, he told HuffPost.

“There’s a fever pitch to this dialogue that is dangerous to everybody,” Sexton said.

As of this writing, the White House has not issued any comment on the Donald Trump-CNN mock video tweet other than Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying on Monday that, “The video didn’t come from Reddit.” At the same time, CNN journalists have vowed not to cower to any threats of violence coming from the highest office. </s> David A. Fahrenthold, a reporter from the Washington Post, obtained a leaked tape from NBC about Donald J. Trump being an absolute utter trash, otherwise known as himself. This time the leaked tape from 2005 showed Donald Trump bragging about kissing married women, making sexual advances on them, and groping them without any consent, since “when you are a star, they let you do it.” As if being rich or a celebrity gives an individual any power or makes them any less of a predator, rapist, and a douchebag. Donald Trump, newly married to Melania Trump at the time, was speaking in a vulgar language about women with Billy Bush, who kept egging him on and laughing. The entire conversation was caught on a hot mic as the two were arriving on the set of Days of Our Lives. Trump was bragging to Billy about making advances on a married woman named “Nancy:”

Donald: “…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. “ Billy: “Yes! The Donald has scored. Whoa, my man!” Donald: “…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.” Donald: “Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

The New York Post reported in August this year that Billy Bush, while covering the Rio Olympics, surprisingly, bragged about having a “tape of Trump being a real dog.” The leaked tape didn’t look too good for Billy Bush; he was suspended and might have his future as a co-host on the Today show cut short (Editor’s note: Bush was eventually fired shortly after the scandal started).

“Obviously I’m embarrassed and ashamed. It is no excuse, but this happened eleven years ago — I was younger, less mature, and acted foolishly in playing along. I’m very sorry,” said Billy Bush in a statement released by NBC Universal.

Trump, on the other hand, didn’t face any consequences. He apologized over the weekend after the tape was leaked and referred to the conversation as “locker room banter” and that the damage is done.

Donald Trump described sexual assault in the video, and for someone to “grab ’em by the pussy” is sexual assault. Donald Trump has sexually assaulted women and bragged about it. He is still a candidate. Why? Trump didn’t take the situation with the seriousness it deserved or take any responsibilities whatsoever. Due to this, the Republican National Committee is considering pulling Trump as their candidate. The mere fact that Trump is still, today, a potential future president of the United States terrifies me. Donald Trump, in general, makes me sick. Trump’s utter lack of respect for women makes him the worst possible presidential candidate, and the Republican National Committee will be doing the right thing if they pull Trump as their candidate. I am pretty positive many of the RNC’s big donors will be pleased if that day comes.
Donald Trump issues a statement calling the conversation "locker room banter" and writes, "I apologize if anyone was offended."