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.”
Cousin Billy released the tape and waited to be praise.
However, it didn't work. No one really cared. Cousin Jeb was wrong. Cousin Billy lost his job and any integrity as an interviewer.
Odd this coming out this close to the midterms, right?
I wonder if we'll see this story pop up again in October of 2020, you know, just some reminiscin' about the past.
These clowns are doing everything they can think of to get out the Trump vote.
Gross mischaracterization.
A useful idiot who got his due!!!!
The Dems are running out of fresh ammo.
Women don’t know how men talk when they’re amongst themselves? Seriously?
Is he auditioning to be the new Captain Obvious?
Hmm, there's already a rule about that . . . a Golden one.
“Gross mischaracterization. “
The term I would use is f_*)ing lie.
Donald Trump brags about groping and kissing women without their consent.
Gross mischaracterization.
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Yep, but it’s from The Hill. That’s all they know how to do.
'I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! Please give me my job back!'
I agree, and to be honest, it’s more about bravado and releasing steam than anything else. I watch what I say in these situations, but many guys don’t. Not saying I’ve never said anything inappropriate, because I probably have.
Is it appropriate? Well, ask the women who talk about men in roughly the same terms when they are alone.
“Jeb told cousin Billy, ‘Oh man, you gotta release that tape! You’ll be a hero! Everyone will love you for saving America from Trump!’ “
Yup. I had never seen so many rinos and neverTrumpers rush to the mic for anything. Especially anything Obola did. Admonishing Trump to stand down, resign-quit for the good of the country.
I knew then it was the Repuki party behind it’s release. They still haven’t given up trying to rid of Trump, either.
Billy didn’t release the tape.
Billy told people during the summer Olympic s about the tape. But the bigwigs at NBC, held it back for months to release when it could do the most damage.
I am waiting for the LA TIMES to release Obama’s tape of his speech at a muslim dinner in LA.
*wink*
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