Trump Makes Defiant Apology For Lewd Comments: “I’ve Never Said I’m A Perfect Person”
The candidate said he is a “changed man” after he was caught on video bragging about trying to sleep with a married woman and making vulgar comments.
Donald Trump issued a rare videotaped apology early Saturday after a recording surfaced hours earlier of him bragging about trying to sleep with a married woman and making shockingly vulgar comments about women.
But the Republican presidential nominee struck a defiant tone in his response, saying the release of the 2005 tape was “nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we’re facing today” that were not nearly as appalling as former President Bill Clinton’s actions.
“Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims,” Trump said.
The candidate said that despite the crude language he used while talking with Billy Bush of Access Hollywood, he is a “changed man” and pledged “to be a better man tomorrow, and I will never, ever let you down.”
“I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone I’m not,” he said. “I’ve said and done things I regret and the words released today on this more than a decade old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.”
The message came just hours after the Washington Post published a video of Trump in which he was caught on a hot mic describing how he tried to have sex with a married woman.
“I did try and fuck her,” he said. “She was married.”
He later on the tape that if you’re a “star” you can “do anything,” including grab women “by the pussy.”
The comments were made in 2005, months after Trump married his third wife, Melania.
The comments in the Post video prompted a cascade of Republican criticism, with many in the candidate’s party demanding an apology and several calling for him to drop out. The criticism was particularly strong from Utah, where Gov. Gary Herbert and Congressman Jason Chaffetz became the first Republicans to say they had changed their minds and would no longer vote for their party’s nominee.
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