Billy Bush Tells Jim Acosta There Are More Trump Tapes ‘In A Vault’
Television personality Billy Bush told podcast host Jim Acosta that there are more tapes of now-President Donald Trump — of the type that made Bush infamous in 2016 — “in a vault somewhere in Idaho.”
Bush was pushed out at NBC for being the co-occupant of the bus in which Trump riffed about sexual assault on a hot mic.
“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the p*ssy. You can do any of that,” Trump said, to uncomfortable laughter from the host.
Acosta interviewed Bush on Thursday’s episode of The Jim Acosta Show, during which he asked Bush if Trump ever said anything similar that didn’t make the tape:
JIM ACOSTA: Did you hear him say anything else of this nature that was not on the tape that you can recall? This was the one and only time you heard him talk —
BILLY BUSH: Let me tell you something. NBC put out an APB for all tapes. When this came out, it was because a contestant in a Miss Universe pageant had said, Donald Trump has said terrible things about me.
And he said, I never talk like that at all. And then NBC sent out to all their divisions, look for your tapes.
Now the ones they wanted belonged to Mark Burnett and are in a vault somewhere in Idaho. And those are all the outtakes from the Apprentice set.
But someone at Access Hollywood said, oh, wait a minute. We have that thing from 11 years ago. What about that? He, didn’t he say something about furniture buying and all this stuff, and wait.
So then they took that and sent it to NBC News, hoping to, you know, Access Hollywood, the tiniest little division of NBC News that’s not even recognized. Like, look, look what we did. We’ve got the thing!
And they went, oh you’ve done so great. Here we go. And then they had it. And that’s how it came to light.
And they scoured that and scoured everything else in every drawer that they could find anything on him. And that was deemed enough. And it wasn’t.
Watch above via The Jim Acosta Show.