Posted on 10/08/2018 5:23:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Billy Bush is reflecting on the backlash two years after surfacing of the controversial “Access Hollywood” tape, in which then-reality star Donald Trump brags about groping and kissing women without their consent.
Bush took to Instagram on Sunday to look back on the two years since the video surfaced just one month before the 2016 presidential election.
"Two years ago today, my life went from order to chaos in a dramatic instant," Bush wrote. "I accounted for my small part, while the President and my employer walked away and still haven’t accounted for their actions. These past couple years have been character building to say the least – anxiety attacks, fits of rage, feelings of betrayal and abandonment – and I have concluded that I am NOT extraordinary. Terrible things can happen at any moment to ANYONE."
The former “Today” show co-host said the positive outcome of the scandal was that he developed more “empathy, humility and resilience” and learned how to “laugh even in the darkest hour.”
He also said he was grateful to God, his family and his supporters.
“I have an idea,” Bush wrote. “Let’s stop tolerating this escalating war on flaws and the obliteration of people for things we all do. … We are humans and thus fallible. Let’s take better care of each other."
Bush shared a photo of him wearing man spanx on the “Today” set on Oct. 7, 2016 before “chaos struck.”
He wrote that his former co-host Hoda Kotb and the show’s producers had put him in the outfit.
“I remember all of us hysterically laughing,” Bush wrote. “I still wear them. Shhh.”
Bush was fired from the morning talk show shortly after the “Access Hollywood” clip was first reported by The Washington Post.
The leaked 2005 video depicts Bush chatting with Trump, who was then a New York business mogul and host of the reality show “The Apprentice.”
The infamous tape reveals Trump bragging about kissing and groping women without their consent, including saying he would “grab them by the p---y.”
He subsequently apologized for his comments, but downplayed his language as "locker room talk" between him and Bush, who was host of the show at the time.
Trump called the legitimacy of the tape into question as recently as last month, suggesting without proof that the recording was “illegal.”
“I had a lawsuit prepared, a lawsuit that was prepared to be filed against NBC because they leaked that tape,” Trump said in an interview with The Daily Caller.
“I had a lawyer hired to bring a suit right after the election ended, but one problem arose," Trump added. "I won the election.”
wonder if we’ll see this story pop up again in October of 2020, you know, just some reminiscin’ about the past.
Bear - woods, see the connection?
the release of video of Billy Bush’s ‘small part’.. (snicker)
“I accounted for my small part,... These past couple years have been character building to say the least – anxiety attacks, fits of rage, feelings of betrayal and abandonment – and I have concluded that I am NOT extraordinary.”
May I suggest self-harm? Please consider going the extra mile to atone for your idiocy, Billy.
Well just a few months later, Trump had Jeb shuffling off the stage in abject defeat. Of all the candidates Trump defeated, Jeb probably got the biggest beat-down (and well-deserved).
I think women are worse. They tend to get more graphic.
If I had 5 billion dollars and a long running TV show I would have to hire security to keep most women from grabbing ‘my junk’....
And ALL the women know it.
Democrats are nothing more than amoral degenerates.
Far worse. First hand factory work exposure.
First hand prison experience. 😁
Was in a meeting of about 20 people one day. I was the only man in the room. These women proceeded to talk in terms I’d have been fired for in an instant, had I been talking that way in reverse about women. I don’t embarrass easily, but these women were being very crude. Didn’t say a word. It really puts you in a bad position. One false move, and you’re the bad guy.
Same thing where I worked. The most crude, and foul mouthed women I ever saw, and there was no way that the men could talk like that in front of them. They would been fired in a heart beat
Billy Bush was and is a Pussy.
Remember the “word” Vernon Jordan used when he was asked what he and POTUS Bill Clinton talked about on the Golf Course?
The one word was Pussy, and you can bet the Farm that they weren’t talking about the Butcheress of Benghazi.
I remember the outrage. Well, not really.
Talk about beating dead horse. Let it go already.
I am so tired of hearing that lie repeated. He never said he did those things. They were talking about women who make themselves available to wealthy men, and what those women allow wealthy men do to them. All he ever said about himself is that he loves to kiss, and even then he did not say he steals those kisses.
It led to the unemployment of member of the Bush clan, and it eliminated that fat RINO fron NJ from holding any sway in the Trump cabinet
Now that Avenatti, totally and completely disgraced himself and even made the libs mad they can’t use Stormy anymore.
It’s one of the most grossly mis-characterized political events ever. “They let you do it” shouts at the loudest possible volume that he was not talking about anything other than consensual interactions. Yeah, maybe it’s not good what gold diggers will do to snag a billionaire, but that’s a private matter between consenting adults, none of my concern.
The biggest lie...he never said he did any of this. He said power hungry women would LET him do this.
Snore
You can grab sluts by the pussy
No
Kidding
Ask Laz
Stay out da Bushes.
Actually it was a former CNN anchor.Billy used to brag about the tape but she released.Let me look around.
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