Trump on Tape: “Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

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I can’t even go to lunch anymore without missing the latest loathsome excretion from Donald Trump’s mouth. Here’s the headline:

Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005

This is not a big surprise. Is there anyone on the planet who didn’t already figure that Trump talked lewdly about women routinely? Probably not. In any case, here’s the extremely lewd conversation, caught on a hot mic while Trump was chatting with Billy Bush for a 2005 appearance on Access Hollywood:

Trump discusses a failed attempt to seduce a woman, whose full name is not given in the video.

“I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it,” Trump is heard saying. It was unclear when the events he was describing took place….“I did try and fuck her. She was married,” Trump says….“I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married,” Trump says.

At that point in the audio, Trump and Bush appear to notice Arianne Zucker, the actress who is waiting to escort them into the soap opera set.

Your girl’s hot as shit, in the purple,” says Bush, who’s now a co-host of NBC’s “Today” show….“I’ve gotta use some tic tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” Trump says….“And when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump says….“Grab them by the pussy,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”

Trump’s excuse is that he’s heard Bill Clinton say a lot worse. Or something.

The video of all this was “obtained” by the Washington Post, which raises the obvious question of just who found this and who decided to leak it. And is there more?

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