‘Access Hollywood’ Host: The Trump Tape Is ‘Very Real’

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Following a report in the New York Times that President Donald Trump has privately questioned the authenticity of the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape released last year, “Access Hollywood” host Natalie Morales made a point to tell viewers that the tape is authentic.

“We wanted to clear something up that has been reported across the media landscape,” Morales said Monday.

“Let us make this perfectly clear: The tape is very real,” she continued. “Remember his excuse at the time was ‘locker-room talk.’ He said every one of those words.”

The New York Times reported over the weekend that Trump suggested to a senator earlier this year that the “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump bragged about groping women, was fake. Trump made the same suggestion to an adviser recently, per the New York Times.

However, at the time the tape was released, Trump acknowledged that he made the comments and apologized.

Asked about the New York Times report Monday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump has not “changed his position” on the tape.

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  1. Avatar for milt69 milt69 says:

    MSM should just play the clip of tRUMP and Billy Bush, then immediately follow it up with the televised apology (first for him lifetime??). Just put that on a loop when the liars in the WH attempt this weak propaganda.

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    The irony here is that the “Godless” Democrats are holding their members responsible for their actions while the “pious” Republicans allow theirs to blatantly lie. They’re more than happy to allow child molesters and predators into the halls of Congress and the White House.

  3. They had pedophile Hastert running the show for eight years, so of course they do.

  4. Sure, Trump is mentally unbalanced. We’ve all played the game of naming his symptoms and guessing at the labels. But it’s getting worse. Like Reagan, he’s drifting ever farther out to sea. There are still 3+ years left in his first term and he wants a second. This is an existential crisis for the country. We honestly might not make it past this Nero.

  5. Trump was only quoting John O’Keefe and of course Steve Bannon at Breitbart and Sean Hannity at Faux. Those are the Three Stooges of the so caled real news main stream media…

    O’Keefe, Bannon, and Hannity: fake news central!

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