“I mean, for me, I can’t understand. I don’t know about a crime, but it is kind of a sickness,” the Senate Minority Leader said, referring to one woman who alleged Trump tried to fondle her during a flight.
The Washington Post published a report earlier this month revealing the GOP nominee once bragged about sexually accosting women.
The Post released a video from 2005 that showed Trump saying to former “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush, “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. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy,” Trump said. “You can do anything.”
The GOP nominee’s remarks about grabbing women have been interpreted by many to be an explicit admission of sexual assault.
Multiple women have come forward since the publication of the Post report to allege that Trump touched them inappropriately.
On Tuesday, Reid said the allegations against Trump suggest has a real personal problem. The Nevada senator also dismissed the Trump camp’s defense that his 2005 remarks was merely “locker room talk.”
“In my younger days, I was an athlete,” the former boxer told CNN. “Football, baseball, of course, I was in a lot of raunchy gyms when I was fighting. And you know, no one talked that way. No one.”
Reid continued, saying, “We have now ten women that we know of that have come forward that we know of that he sexually assaulted them. That’s a crime.”
