BILLY BUSH TELLS ALL ABOUT THE ACCESS HOLLYWOOD VIDEO SCANDAL

…Donald Trump, with Billy Bush & Arianne Zucker, right after the taping of the Hollywood Access video.

 

Die-hard female Trump supporters appear to care less that Trump had spent decades assaulting women.

 

 

It has been shown that President Trump tends to give the American public between 5 & 9 lies per day, depending on what his administration has been accused of on a daily basis.  But knowing that, I have to say I was surprised when even though he acknowledged what we all heard him say on the Access Hollywood video, and he apologized for it, now he’s questioning whether the video was forged……Really?

 

To answer this comment from Herr Trump, Billy Bush, the Access Hollywood Host that was fired from AH for laughing along with Trump for his lude remarks about grabbing women’s genitalia, he has now offered an op-ed piece in the New York Times.

 

Mr. Bush has responded to those recent reports that President Trump is questioning the authenticity of the AH video.  Bush is saying the president was now “indulging in some revisionist history.” Bush said that seven people, in addition to him, heard Trump when the video was being taped.

 

What Trump was doing that caused the taping of the 2005 Access Hollywood video, was that he was in route for an appearance on 'Days of Our Lives' with the Access Hollywood host and was joining the actress Arianne Zucker.

 

In his commentary article for the New York Times, Bush said he was disturbed by reading the multiple reports that Trump was telling his allies, and at least one US Senator, that he may not be the voice on the Access Hollywood tape.  “He said it,” Bush wrote, referring to Trump’s now infamous “grab them by the p‑‑‑y” remark made on the Access Hollywood bus.

 

“Of course he said it,” Bush added. “And we all laughed along, without a single doubt that this was hypothetical hot air from America’s highest-rated bloviator. Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass, Trump standup act. He was just performing. Surely we thought, none of this was real.  We now know better,” he added, referring to the women who came forward to accuse Trump of improper sexual advances.

 

The Washington Post first reported the leaked recording just before the election in October 2016. It had captured the audio of then-candidate Trump boasting to Billy Bush about forcibly kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women.  This was the conversation as the two rode to a soap opera set to shoot a new segment. Bush, who hosted Access Hollywood at the time, laughed and egged Trump on, and he then got fired for it.

 

After the recording surfaced, Trump openly acknowledged it on national TV saying it was him speaking as he dismissed his words as “locker-room banter.”  “I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize,” he said.  In fact, this is so amazing because Donald Trump usually says, “I don’t believe in apologizing”.

 

Last week, both The Times and The Post reported that Trump was questioning the recording’s authenticity.  He was telling people close to him, including that Republican senator, that the tape may have been doctored or faked. He has even suggested to senior advisers that the voice isn’t even his, or that it was edited to make him look bad, and he has asked others whether they think it sounds like him.  This is what The Post had reported.  Responding to the reports, White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump “hasn’t changed his position” on the recording.

…Trumps bizarre Press Secretary: Sarah Huckabee Sanders

 

But as usual with Ms. Sanders, what the hell does her statement mean?   Is it that Trump hasn’t changed that he still agrees that it was him on the tape, or he is still saying he thinks it was a doctored video….?  Which is it?

 

We know that whatever Trump says doesn’t mean squat from one hour to the next.  He continues to change whatever he says at any given moment.

 

Billy Bush has tried to restore his reputation in recent months by publicly atoning for his role in the AH video scandal. He appear recently on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”.  What that actually does for him is questionable, but I guess you have to start somewhere.

 

Back in May, the Hollywood Reporter published an extensive interview with Bush, in which he described his shame and humiliation about the recording.  He said he didn’t have the “strength of character” at the time to shut Trump down. He also vowed to support women in the future and lamented the fact that he had lost his job over the tape, while Trump went on to be elected president (“the irony is glaring,” Bush said).

 

In his Times commentary, Bush said he believed the women who have accused Trump of forcibly kissing and groping them in encounters over the past two plus decades, their accounts totally line up with Trump’s comments on the AH bus. Trump’s apparent questioning of the AH tape has “hit a raw nerve in me,” Bush wrote.  He added: “I can only imagine how it has reopened the wounds of the women who came forward with their stories about him, and they did not receive enough attention.”

 

As with former judge Roy Moore in Alabama, Trump has denied any wrongdoing, by either rejecting the women’s claims himself or through his spokesmen. “Nobody has more respect for women than I do,” he said last year after the Access Hollywood tape was released.

 

Bush went on to assert that he had been critical of a Trump presidency from the early days of the campaign. He portrayed the accusations against the president as part of a  national debate about sexual assault and pledged his “respect and admiration” to all the women who have come forward.

 

“To these women: I will never know the fear you felt or the frustration of being summarily dismissed and called a liar, but I do know a lot about the anguish of being inexorably linked to Donald Trump,” Bush wrote. “You women are the culture warriors at the forefront of necessary change.”

 

I would suspect that those women that said they didn’t care what Donald Trump said or did with these accusing women.  Apparent these Trump supporters are like the one that was seen at a Trump campaign rally with a home-made tee shirt that said in hand-drawn Sharpie writing on the front: “ Donald Trump Can Grab Me…..”, and then she had drawn a very fat, Sharpie arrow pointing down toward her genitals.

 

I would suspect that these die-hard Trump female supporters care less as to what Trump, or other powerful men might do as they harass the women they work with on a daily basis.

 

 

Yes, Bush is right.  It's time for a change in the work force.

 

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