Posted on 11/26/2017 1:52:19 PM PST by DoodleDawg
President Donald Trump now claims that the Access Hollywood tape on which he boasted of sexually assaulting women may not be genuine, according to a report in The New York Times.
On the tape, which surfaced weeks before the November 2016 presidential election, the former reality star can be heard bragging to TV presenter Billy Bush of grabbing women “by the p***y.”
Trump faced calls to step aside from the race after the tape went public, and apologized for the remarks, dismissing them as “locker room talk.”
However according to the Times, the president told a senator earlier this year that the tape was not genuine and repeated the claim to an adviser recently.
The president apparently sees parallels between the situation he faced after the release of the tape in 2016 and that currently faced by Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
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Trump didn’t speak on the record re the recording. The NYT says Trump told an unnamed Senator the tape may not be authentic. If Trump asked the Senator to leak to the NYT, that would be a first. (Or it’s possible there is no senator involved at all. With unnamed sources, the sky’s the limit.)
So... let’s get this straight... The New York Times, which hates Trump, reports that Trump supposedly said something an unidentified Senator... oh, let me guess, was it the fair and impartial Bob Corker? The fair and impartial Jeff Flake? The fail and impartial (not to mention heroic) John McCain? Or did the Times just make up the whole thing because, you know, they hate Trump?
He should letbsleeping dogs lie. By bringingnitbup again, he risks making it a distraction from his Presidency.
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There’s no evidence he DID bring it up again! This is simply the Slimes reporting a rumor of something he supposedly said.
meh...
Trump did a lot of reality-type bits over his TV time. Likely doesn’t remember one over another.
‘Access Hollywood’ host Natalie Morales basically admitted the segment was a fake-reality scene in a reality segment. It was NOT spontaneous locker room talk.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/10/billy-bush-donald-trump-access-hollywood
...Trump and Bush were not alone during the discussion — they were accompanied by a two-person camera crew, a bus driver, an Access Hollywood producer, a production assistant, Trump’s security guard, and his press representative.
“Upon arriving at the NBC lot, our camera crew was let off the bus so they could record Mr. Trump getting off the bus to meet the soap opera star...
Tom Porter is a bald-faced liar. Trump did not say that he did those things on that tape.
Exactly. I have played the tape many times. Some people are inserting words and meanings into the tape that are not there. That is purely dishonest to say he said he grabbed women by the pussy. Listen to the damn tape. He said, “YOU COULD GRAB ‘EM BY THE PUSSY. You, not I.
NYT is making this stuff up so that Trump can be associated with the current scandals. Fake news.
Do you believe that NYT story? If so, why?
However according to the Times,
What more needs to be said. Quit feeding the circus animals! Everytime their crap is reposted, it accomplishes exactly the intended results. there are liberal lurkers all over FR and have been for a long time. They feed off people here believing their crap.
Does this senator have a name?
...and repeated the claim to an adviser recently.
Does this adviser have a name?
I’m disappointed that some FReepers would so willingly accept the Fake News sources.
The NYT quoting an unnamed senator? LOL. It doesn’t get much more fake than that.
That’s a lie of omission, what’s omitted from the quote makes the quote a lie. Context matters. But the feral media doesn’t care.
It’s much more than a lie of omission. They are deliberately twisting his words and their meaning and quite directly saying that he said something that he did not.
Right? People get their blood pressure all worked up over some unsourced crap posted in Newsweek. Anonymous senators and advisers leaked this to a hostile media? Yeah, whatever.
He said as a media celebrity he COULD do that.
He also said he could be videotaped shooting someone on 5th Avenue and not lose a single supporter.
Does that mean he DID SHOOT SOMEONE?
> I’m doubting the accuracy of this one. Having indicated it was real in November I don’t see Trump changing now. Especially when there are probably a half-dozen witnesses who would jump at the chance to validate it. Starting with Billy Bush.
This is likely fake news designed to get Trump to say something about the tape again.
Correction: He said “You could” to the grab and HE COULD to the shooting.
Exactly.
“The New York Times is not a valid news source and is not to be trusted.”
This ^^^^^^
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