David Fahrenthold - WaPo reporter and Rob Silverstein - NBC producer.
Who recorded it?
Billy Bush - nephew of one president and cousin of another.
"Mommy said it was *my* turn!"
Posted on 10/09/2016 12:18:22 PM PDT by DanMiller
The private conversation between Billy Bush and Donald Trump was surreptitiously recorded by someone. It was provided to NBC approximately eleven years later and shortly before the October 9th presidential debate. We have not been told by whom or why, but it's not difficult to figure it out.
As reported in an October 7, 2016 Washington Post article titled An unlikely Bush finally did some damage to Donald Trump: Billy Bush,
Billyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9uf1AqoBOw Bush is first cousins with former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who was favored to win the Republican nomination before Trump came along and started calling him "low-energy" and attacking him daily on the stump.That means Billy Bush is also first cousins with former president George W. Bush, who Trump has suggested is to blame for 9/11 and who started an Iraq War that Trump has labeled a disaster.
And he's a nephew of former president George H.W. Bush, who has reportedly said he will support Hillary Clinton over Trump, and former first lady Barbara Bush, who has said "I'm sick of" Trump and that she doesn't know how women can vote for him.
None of the Bushes is backing Trump in this campaign. And those who have tried have failed to halt his momentum.
But they continue to try.
I don't know who recorded the Trump-Bush conversation or why. Nor do I know who released the recording or why. However, according to Wikipedia,
After working as a correspondent on Access Hollywood, a syndicated entertainment-news show from 2001 to 2004, Bush was a primary anchor from 2004 until 2016, when he left to become a co-host of the third hour of The Today Show.
Although there has been speculation that NBC might fire Bush as a Today Show anchor, that apparently will not happen.
An NBC executive said Saturday Billy Bush would remain a "Today" show host despite his role in a shocking 2005 video with Donald Trump in which they discussed groping women.“There are no plans to take Billy off the show Monday, and there have been no discussions of any type of disciplinary action,” the exec said.
Another well-placed executive said Saturday that it would be difficult to take action against Bush because the vile talk with Trump happened 11 years ago. [Emphasis added.]
"What are they going to do, suspend him? For something that happened a decade ago?" the executive said. “There's been a lot of water under the bridge since then.”
In any event, Bush was Trump's host on the Hollywood Access bus where they had their conversation. To speculate that he recorded their conversation, apparently without making Trump aware that he was doing so as NBC has acknowledged, and/or had principal access to the recording, and that he or another member of the Bush Clan released it to NBC just before the next Trump-Clinton debacle debate would not be over the top. Writing at American Thinker, Greg Richards says outright that
This was a conversation meant to be private. The person disgraced by this conversation isn't Trump; it is Bush. First recording and then publishing this conversation are the actions of a person with low or no character, a bottom-feeder never to be trusted with anything.
He is probably correct. In any event, guy talk of the sort in which Trump and Bush engaged is harmless -- unless and until it has been made public. Then, it can damage the reputation of the jokers but also females about whom they were joking. It probably won't harm the female in the case, because she rejected Trump's advances. Good for her.
The Clintons' hypocrisy
Bill Clintons predatory conduct toward young women was substantially more damaging to them than to either Clinton. Hillary's disparagements of, and threats to, Bill's victims are in a different class altogether than anything Trump did or said or has even been claimed to have done or said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9uf1AqoBOw
I did not have sex with Monica Lewinsky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6Y1e6i0xI
According to Hillary, it's all about Hillary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ2DW4seyUs
Not really:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8y0WLm78U
Ms. Lewinsky talks a lot about "public shaming." Has Trump been "publically shamed" for his guy talk? The Clinton campaign, the media and some Republicans are doing just that.
Here's a link to a list of other female victims of "Slick Willie" and "Crooked Hillary."
Conclusions
Today (October 9th), Democrats told Trump to leave Bill Clinton out of tonight's debate because it's old news. Yet Trump's guy talk eleven years ago should apparently be fair game and they want to "focus on the issues." Right.
Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi struck a similar chord in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd, saying that she did not believe Trump would bring up the former president. "No, because you know why? Elections are about the future. They're about the future. He's talking about something, Bill Clinton, he's not on the ballot."
But Hillary, Bill's enabler and enforcer, is on the ballot. And she is dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvoRcPXURwg
We don't know why the guy talk tape was released shortly before the October 9th debates but in ample time for trump to be publicly shamed by it, but it's not difficult to figure out why. As noted here,
[I]f you want to destroy someone’s reputation or credibility or both, you simply accuse him of the same type of thing you have been doing yourself and with the help of a compliant and prostitute media you can usually bring it off and appear to be taking the moral high ground, when actually your “high” ground is usually lower that that of the person you are trying to drag through the mud. [Emphasis added.]. . . .
[T]he whole deal here is to make Trump look horrendous to the public at large right before the next presidential debate, which is tonight, October 9th. Why they had to hold one of these things on a Sunday is beond me. They couldn’t have waited until Monday? They had to drag this thing into the Lord’s Day?
That the intent of this tape is to portray Trump as the scum of the earth there can be no doubt. And its effect has been demonstrated among the gutless wonders that parade as Republican politicians as they rush to distance themselves from Trump on so-called “moral” grounds. Most of them owe their souls to the Ruling Republican Establishment and so never wanted Trump to begin with, as his candidacy threatened to disrupt the CFR/Trilateralist agenda of their bosses for moving this country toward One World Government. [Emphasis added.]
So let’s attempt to put this into perspective, looking at the situation as it pertains to Trump and the Clintons. For Trump, this is one comment he made eleven years ago. As far as the prostitute press is concerned he might as well have said it ten minutes ago, but he said it eleven years ago. And he has apologized for it. Not that this makes any difference to the managed media. The comment is touted and the apology ignored. [Emphasis added.]
. . . .
So here we have something that Trump said, but it was only talk, lewd locker room talk admittedly, but still talk. Kind of like the talk we hear about Hillary being indicted for her corruption–just talk.
Yet we are now supposed to concentrate totally on Trump’s talk and totally forget all about Hillary’s thoroughgoing corruption over the decades. And we are also supposed to disremember all things pertaining to her “significant other” and what he did to all those women whose names you all have seen in the news over the years and we are all now supposed to forget how Hillary was basically an enabler for her husband’s activities and how she tried to silence all the women that brought rape allegations against Bill. We are all supposed to forget Monica Lewinsky and the “blue dress” and all that like it never happened. None of that is to be remembered tonight at the debate–only Trump’s eleven year old statement. All Klinton indiscretions are to be forgotten–wiped out of memory as surely as Hillary’s email servers were wiped off and Trump is to be raked over the coals not only by Hillary, but also by the supposedly neutral “moderator” who, in reality, will be the second person on Hillary’s debating team. [Emphasis added.]
Yep. And most Republicans appear to think that's what's going on. According to a survey of 1,549 registered voters, including 1,390 likely voters, which was conducted on Saturday by Politico/Morning Consult poll,
While 70 percent of Democrats called on Trump to leave the 2016 race, only 12 percent of Republicans said the same. And of those Republicans, only 13 percent of women said Trump should drop out.
A substantial majority of Democrats want Trump to drop out. Might that be because they have a sense that he will defeat Hillary?
Oh, I see, that is my mistake then, I apologize as I misunderstood your comment.
But I wouldn’t say that such speculation is utterly delusion. The Bush’s hate trump, Jeb HATES Trump, a Bush was involved in this conversation. It seems fairly reasonable to speculate that the Bush family was involved in this release.
I don’t think that they take too kindly to the thought that Trump destroyed their political dynasty, even though it was themselves and the GOP that destroyed their dynasty, and their party for that matter.
I have no doubt that Bush political long knives are out for Trump, and maybe even other kinds of knives too.
H.W. is shady.
Bad language 10 years ago = one big nothing. A complete canard by the MSM. Donald Trump, businessman, media man, always out there. Anyone buying or getting agitated by this faux issue needs to put a new set of diapers on and change their soothers. Go Trump!
Gimme a great big P
Gimme a great big U
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What does that spell????
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I deleted GHWB book from my i pad just the other day
David Fahrenthold - WaPo reporter and Rob Silverstein - NBC producer.
Who recorded it?
Billy Bush - nephew of one president and cousin of another.
Doesn't matter. He implied he was "caught up in the conversation" instead of renouncing it as nothing more than foolish guy chatter that he didn't know was recorded.
If he knew it was recorded, he was responsible.
It sure does look like a coordinated coup with the timing to detract from the material from hillary private speeches. The 'pubs had to be aware. The worst of the backstabbers disowned Trump before they'd have time to evaluate the facts.
Trump is now the de-facto third party candidate so many voters wanted. He owes nothing to nobody, across the political spectrum. He can go to DC, make coalitions, and maybe save the nation.
I bet it was part of ordinary Access Hollywood lengthier recording intended to be edited. It languished in their archives for years until someone remembered it or found it while looking through what are no doubt a large number of Trump files.
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I’ll go a little further.
Some time ago, working with hellary, the network searched their database of video for ‘Trump’. They found this. They viewed it and reported the contents to hell,et.al.
hellary’s folks decided the timing was NOW, Friday just before Sun am network shows and the Sun nite debate.
Interesting that someone sat on this for a decade. Does its release only when he’s the frontrunner in the race mean that such scandals are forgiven if you’re Democrat?
Who recorded the “Pussy Gate” conversation.
Harry Roy and his orchestra, 1931!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCzUqf_D1wo
I agree with you! Our country is at a critical point now and the officials who were elected are showing their true colors!
Oh yes since the Democrats would never do such a thing, and gosh Hillary would never think about it. What F*ing dream land do you live in?
"Mommy said it was *my* turn!"
I live - as you so elegantly put it in a “f*ing” real world. A world where Bush and Clinton collide to take down the first real man we’ve had running for president since Reagan.
Jeb supporter are you?
Yup! Don’t you just want to gather him into a blanket and take him home? Or barf just looking at him.
How did you arrive at that conclusion?? Proof you don’t. Maybe you should do some worrying about the enemy that can and is causing Trump problems, and it isn’t the Bushes, if it were, Trump wouldn’t have been the nominee.
Also what no one mentions is that the Access Hollywood tape (imagine that—Billy Bush or other liberal show-biz types would root through their archives and set up the Donald with a selectively edited video?) starts with DJT talking. It is not clear what went on before but I would bet my bottom dollar that Bush or one of the other 3 or 4 guys that were shown getting out of the bus had been there for quite a while, holding a “locker room” discussion prior to the selected DJT comments. And during that time the conversation escalated and brought out the entertainer in DJT, so as to “egg him on” to make those comments. Context is important.
And of course, after they (DJT and Bush) got out of the Access Hollywood bus and met the (seductively dressed) actress face-to-face, nothing untoward happened and no off-color comments were made, either there by the bus or walking thru the studio to get to the sound stage. And she seemed to enjoy the semi-salacious conversation.
The whole thing stinks to high heaven. And meanwhile, the media has an excuse to bury the Wikileaks information on the HRC Goldman Sachs speeches.
I doubt Billy Bush knew anything about it.
The recording was probably started inside the bus, just to make sure that the audio was working.
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