Billy Bush Claims He Flagged Trump's 'Locker Room Talk' Comment to a Producer Back in 2005

Billy Bush is addressing Donald Trump‘s infamous Access Hollywood tape.

During a new interview with Rob Lowe on the actor’s SiriusXM podcast Literally! With Rob Lowe, the former host said that he flagged the President’s comments more than a decade before the scandal broke.

“The day of the filming in 2005, I called my producer [and] said, ‘You’re not gonna believe what Trump said. He is going after Nancy.’ All I said was ‘Nancy O’Dell’ because I didn’t hear the other stuff,” he explained.

The “other stuff” seemingly referred to Trump’s comments about grabbing women by the genitals.

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“I said, ‘He’s trying to take Nancy furniture shopping to sleep with her. This is crazy. He’s done it again! The guy’s an animal!’ I report it, basically, to my superior, but it sits in a desk forever because…had that tape leaked out when it actually occurred in 2005, I would’ve been fired for an entirely different reason — killing NBC’s cash cow. Trump was a protected, revered source. He was a hundred million dollars in profit for NBC. He was the king of the ratings.”

At the time, Trump appeared on The Apprentice for NBC while Billy was in his first full year as an Access Hollywood co-anchor.

In 2016, during the final weeks of Trump’s first campaign for the White House, The Washington Post published an exposé that revealed audio of “the Access Hollywood tape.”

The recording features Trump bragging on a bus in 2005 about grabbing women by the genitals in audio captured off camera. “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” he is overheard saying. “You can do anything.”

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