Republican Donald Trump’s campaign considered setting the candidate and his wife up for a joint interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” to help diffuse a sex-charged controversy engulfing his campaign but discussion for the plan fizzled, according to a report.
On Sunday, the New York Times reported that Trump and his wife Melania were consulted by campaign staffers on whether doing a joint interview — the idea was to address a resurfaced tape showing Trump make vulgar comments about women — would help quash the controversy.
“The deliberations over a possible interview were moving ahead despite Ms. Trump’s lack of interest in appearing on camera,” the report said. “But then Nancy O’Dell, the former ‘Access Hollywood’ host whom Mr. Trump had lewdly described in the recording, issued a statement denouncing his comments. And then more tapes of Mr. Trump speaking crudely about women, this time on ‘The Howard Stern Show,’ turned up on television. The discussions about the interview were quickly dropped.”
The video from 2005 was first published by the Washington Post on Friday. Trump has since apologized for his lewd comments, calling them “foolish” in a video he posted online.
