Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions reportedly denied Sunday that the 2005 recording in which Donald Trump boasted about grabbing women by their genitals without their consent was not a description of sexual assault.
Sessions, a Trump Advisor, was interviewed prior to Sunday’s presidential debate and told the Weekly Standard Trump had used “improper language and he’s acknowledged that.”
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Sessions responded with: “I don’t characterize that as sexual assault. I think that’s a stretch. I don’t know what he meant—“
He was then asked, “So if you grab a woman by the genitals, that’s not sexual assault?”
Sessions said, “I don’t know. It’s not clear that he—how that would occur.”
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On Friday, the Washington Post released a video from 2005 in which Trump was caught on camera making offensive statements about how he hits on women to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush.
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“I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it,” Trump told Access Hollywood host Billy Bush in the video about former show producer Nancy O’Dell. “I did try and f— her. She was married.”
He went on to say, “when you are a star, they let you do it.
“You can do anything, grab them by the pussy.”
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During Sunday night’s debate, Trump was asked by moderator Anderson Cooper, “you bragged that you have sexually assaulted women, do you understand that?”
Trump denied Cooper’s claimed and told the CNN anchor, “This was locker room talk. I’m not proud of it. I apologized to my family. I apologized to the American people but this is locker room talk.”
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