We received a lot of questions online, Mr.Trump, about the tape that was released on Friday. You can imagine.
You Called what you said locker room banter.
You described kissing women without consentsand grabbing their genitals.
That is sexual assault.
You bragged you have sexually assaulted women. You understand that?
No I didn’t say that at all.
I don’t think you understood. What was said was this was a locker room talk.
I’m not proud of it.
I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people.
Certainly I’m not proud of it.
But this is locker room talk.
You know when we have a world, where youhave ISIS chopping off heads, where you have (them) frankly drowning people insteel cages, where you have wars and horrible horrible sites all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like the Medieval Time.
We haven’t seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world.
And they look and they see.
Can you imagine the people that are frankly doing so well against us? With ISIS.
And they look at our country and they see what’s going on.
And yes, I’m very embarrassed by it. I hateit. But it’s a locker room talk. And it’s one of those things.
I will knock the head of ISIS. We’re gonna defeat ISIS.
ISIS happened when a number of years ago ina vacuum left because of bad judgement.
And I will tell you I will take care of ISIS.
So we should get on to much more important things and much bigger things.
Just for the record, though, are you saying what you said on that bus 11 years ago that you did not actually kiss women without consent or grope women without consent?
I have great respect for women. Nobody hasmore respect for women than I do.
So for the record you said you never did that.
Frankly, you hear these things are said.
I was embarrassed by it. And I have tremendous respect for women.
Have you ever done those things?
And women have respect for me. And I will tell you: No, I have not.
And I will tell you that I will make our country safe.
We will have borders on our country, which we don’t have now. People are pouring into our country.
And they’re coming in from the Middle East and many places.
We’re gonna make America safe again. We’regonna make America great again but we’re gonna make America safe again.
And we’re gonna make America wealthy again becauseif you don’t do that it’s just, it sounds harsh to say, but have to build up the wealth.
Right now other nations are taking our jobsand they’re taking our jobs.