Donald Trump said Tuesday that women keep coming up to him to tell him they’ve heard far worse than the lewd remarks he made in 2005 when he bragged about using his celebrity to get sexual favors from women.
Trump said this weekend during the second presidential debate that he was sorry for the remarks, but maintained what he said in 2005 was just “locker room talk.”
On Tuesday, he stuck to that talking point.
“First of all, locker room talk, and most people have heard it before, and I’ve had a lot of women come up to me and say, ‘Boy, I’ve heard that, and I’ve heard a lot worse than that over my life,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News.
His remarks came in response to a question about whether he plans to do anything to court women voters.
The Washington Post published a report revealing Trump once bragged about leveraging his celebrity status in return for sexual favors from women, some of them married.
“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump bragged in 2005 to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush. “And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.”
“Grab them by the pussy,” Trump said. “You can do anything.”
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton currently holds a 15 point lead over Trump with women voters, according to a FiveThirtyEight polling average.
