Billy Bush reminded everyone Sunday that it was President Trump's voice on the damning "Hollywood Access" tape that was leaked during the 2016 presidential election, the former television host confirmed in a New York Times op-ed.
Bush penned the piece amid reports that the president is casting doubt it was his own words on the 2005 recording of him saying he "grabs women by the p****."
"Of course he said it. And we laughed along, without a single doubt that this was hypothetical hot air from America's highest-rated bloviator," he wrote. "Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act. He was performing. Surely, we thought, none of this was real. We now know better."
The tape, released mere weeks before the presidential election, recorded an unedited conversation between Mr. Trump and Access Hollywood host Billy Bush in which the future president used sexist and disparaging language about women as Bush laughed along. The tape opened up the future president to allegations of sexual assault, and cost Bush his job at NBC News.
