Amid reports that President Trump has privately backtracked on his acknowledgement during the 2016 campaign that the voice on the infamous Access Hollywood tape is his, the other person heard in the recording writes: “Of course he said it.”
The lurid tape recorded on a bus in 2005 includes off-camera comments by Trump in which he brags that he could “grab” women by the genitals because he’s a television star. It surfaced in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential race and briefly threatened to derail Trump’s campaign.
In an opinion piece that appeared in Sunday’s New York Times, former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, who is heard on the tape laughing and commenting at Trump’s remarks, writes:
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