Republican nominee Donald Trump on Thursday said it was “an illegal act” for NBC to release earlier this month a 2005 videotape of him making lewd comments about women, and threatened to take legal action against the network, reports The Wall Street Journal.
In an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly that aired Thursday, Mr. Trump once again defended his comments—in which he said of groping women, “when you’re a star, they let you do it”—as “locker-room talk,” and added: “The microphone was not supposed to be on—not that I make that as an excuse for myself, but certainly it was an illegal act that was NBC. It was not supposed to be on.”
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Asked to clarify whether he thought it was illegal that NBC had released the tape, from a filming of “Access Hollywood,” he said, “Oh, absolutely. You know that was a private dressing room—yeah that was certainly illegal, no question about it.” The tape shows Mr. Trump speaking on a bus with the show’s name on it as he arrived on the set of the soap opera “Days of Our Lives.”
On whether he would seek legal action against NBC, Mr. Trump said “you’re going to see after the election,” and added, “We’re gonna find out soon enough, I will tell you.”
Earlier this month, both the Washington Post and NBC reported on tapes obtained from the “Access Hollywood” filming in which a recently married Mr. Trump professed his penchant for kissing women—“Just kiss. I don’t even wait”—and said, “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” Mr. Trump was speaking to then-“Access Hollywood” anchor Billy Bush, who has since been fired by the network.
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