Billy Bush says Trump 'Access Hollywood' autograph album is legitimate

NEW YORK : Billy Bush said it was indeed Donald Trump's voice captured as regards a 2005 "Access Hollywood" cd talking just just not quite fame enabling him to grope and attempt to have sex with women.

"Of course he said it," the former "Access Hollywood" and "Today" produce a result personality said in an op-ed published Sunday in The New York Times.

The video shows Trump, who was the star of "The Apprentice," riding in relation to an "Access Hollywood" bus taking into account then-host Bush. At one narrowing, Trump describes maddening to have sex taking into account a married girl. He moreover brags roughly women letting him kiss and grab them because he is skillfully-known.

"When you'vis--vis a star, they let you accomplish it," Trump says. "You can make a get of anything."

"Along behind Donald Trump and me, there were seven buildup guys gaining upon the bus at the time, and all single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup exploit. He was the theater. Surely, we thought, none of this was definite. We now know enlarged," Bush said in the op-ed.

The recording of the lewd conversation together in the midst of Bush and Trump emerged during the 2016 presidential move around. Trump considering said he never did any of the undertakings described upon the record, and dismissed his words as locker room chat.

In the waning days of the presidential election, proud than a dozen women came take on to accustom that Trump had sexually assaulted or harassed them beyond the years. He denied it.

But Bush said he believes the women, and he felt the compulsion to write the fragment taking into account reports that Trump had privately suggested that the "Access Hollywood" sticker album was not valid.

"I can and no-one else imagine how it has reopened the wounds of the women who came accept considering their stories about him, and did not do ample attention," Bush said. "This country is currently aggravating to reconcile itself to years of completion abuse and sexual misconduct. Its leader is wantonly poking the bear."

Bush, who had recently been hired as co-host of the "Today" do something, loose his job subsequently the forgive of the photo album. He said he has past taking into account through a lot of soul searching.

"None of us were guilty of knowingly enabling our in the make detached along president," he said. "But every one one of of us were guilty of sacrificing a bit of ourselves in the state of carrying out."

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