Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski defended his old boss Friday night from comments he made in 2005 degrading women.

“Clearly this is not how women should be spoken about, but you know, we’re not choosing a Sunday school teacher here,” Lewandowski said on the phone to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “This is 12 years ago this audio tape. It does not reflect or bring to mind the Donald Trump that I’ve spent 18 months with traveling. I’ve never heard anything like this out of him and so let me say, we are appointing a leader, we are electing a leader to the free world. We’re not electing a Sunday school teacher.”