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Mike Lee to Donald Trump: Step Aside

By John McCormack

Following the release of a 2005 video in which Donald Trump made obscene comments about how he gropes women and might commit adultery, Utah senator Mike Lee called on Trump to step aside so that someone else could challenge Hillary Clinton.



“You yourself, sir, Mr. Trump, have stated repeatedly that the goal, the objective, has got to be to defeat Hillary Clinton in November. I couldn’t agree more. It is for precisely that reason, Mr. Trump, that I respectfully ask you, with all due respect, that you step aside. Step down. Allow someone else to carry the banner of these principles,” Lee says in a video posted on Facebook.

Colorado congressman Mike Coffman also called on Trump to step down:


The Washington Post reported on the video Friday afternoon:

At that point in the audio, Trump and Bush appear to notice Arianne Zucker, the actress who is waiting to escort them into the soap-opera set. “Your girl’s hot as s—, in the purple,” says Bush, who’s now a co-host of NBC’s “Today” show. “Whoa!” Trump says. “Whoa!” “I’ve got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” Trump says. “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.” “And when you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything.” “Whatever you want,” says another voice, apparently Bush’s. “Grab them by the p—y,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”

Late Friday night, Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz withdrew his endorsement of Trump, and Virginia congresswoman Barbara Comstock, who had not endorsed Trump, announced that she could not vote for Trump in November and asked Trump to step down.

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