*Donald Trump has finally apologized for saying something grossly offensive.
Previously unaired footage from 2005 surfaced on Friday in which Trump is heard bragging about trying to have sex with a married woman and being able to grope women at will…because he’s famous.
The audio was captured during a taping for “Access Hollywood” and obtained by The Washington Post. Trump was doing publicity for an appearance on “Days of Our Lives” with actress Arianne Zucker. The vile comments were caught by a hot mic during his bus ride to the set. “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush is also heard yukking it up with Trump in the audio:
“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,” Trump says in the recording.
“And when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”
“I did try and f**k her. She was married,” Trump says in one portion of the footage published by the Post.
Trump then goes on to say that “when you’re a star … you can do anything.”
“Grab them by the p**sy,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”
Watch below:
The remarks prompted Trump — for the first time in his nearly 16-month campaign — to apologize, sort of.
In a statement released Friday by his campaign, he dismissed the comments as “locker room banter,” then, immediately tried to deflect criticism onto the husband of his opponent Hillary Clinton.
“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.
Clinton’s campaign pounced.
“This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president,” Clinton tweeted.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, campaigning in Las Vegas, said Trump’s comment “makes me sick to my stomach.”
“I don’t like to say the words that he’s used in the past when he calls women, ‘pigs, dogs and slobs’ … but this is behavior that’s just outrageous and so that there would be a news story that would have more statements like this of this kind, I mean, gosh, I’m sad to say that I’m not surprised,” Kaine said. “I should be surprised and shocked. I’m sad to say that I’m not.”
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