Hillary Clinton says video of Donald Trump is “horrific”
Hillary Clinton is responding to a video of rival Donald Trump making lewd comments about women in 2005. The Democratic presidential candidate said on Twitter, “This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president.” Trump issued an apology after the video emerged of him making sexually charged comments. He called it “locker room banter.” Clinton has said that Trump has shown a lack of respect for women, noting during the first presidential debate that he insulted a former Miss Universe. She has said it’s a reason why he’s unfit to be president. *** Earlier, Trump issued a rare apology after a video showed him making lewd, sexually charged comments about women in 2005. He called it “locker room banter.” The Republican nominee said that “I apologize if anyone was offended.” He issued the statement after The Washington Post revealed the video of Trump caught on a hot mic while talking with Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood.” Trump is heard saying he “did try and f— her,” referring to an unknown woman. He also used graphic terms to describe the woman’s body and said he frequently tried to kiss beautiful women. He boasted that “when you’re a star they let you do it.” He said: “You can do anything.” Trump has a long history of making crude comments about women. Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
Donald Trump dominates nightly news on election, study shows
Since the beginning of June, Donald Trump has received more coverage on the broadcast network evening newscasts than all of the other candidates for president combined, with his estranged former partners at NBC giving him the most attention. The statistics offered by Andrew Tyndall, a consultant who studies the content of evening newscasts, is one snapshot of how Trump has seized the media’s attention to the detriment of his rivals. The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts spent 114 minutes on campaign coverage from the beginning of June through the end of last week, and Trump was the focus of 60 of them. The closest competitor was Jeb Bush with 15 minutes. Tyndall counted five minutes for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, although that didn’t include stories about her government email while secretary of state. NBC has devoted 35 minutes to Trump coverage, including his interview with Katy Tur. CBS had 16 minutes, Tyndall said. ABC’s “World News Tonight” had eight minutes of Trump coverage, six of them last week. Trump had a longtime relationship with NBC as host of “The Apprentice” though the network has cut ties with him on the show after he announced his candidacy. The network also angered him during the past month by cancelling its broadcast of the Miss Universe pageant, owned by Trump, because of the candidate’s comments on Mexican immigration. That corporate quarrel hasn’t seemed to affect NBC News’ coverage of Trump’s campaign, Tyndall said. In general, “Nightly News” has paid more on-air attention to the presidential campaign this summer than either “World News Tonight” or the “CBS Evening News,” he said. “They haven’t gone out of their way to attack him,” Tyndall said. “They just cover him more.” NBC declined to talk publicly about their campaign coverage. Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
NBC dumps Donald Trump over Mexican immigrant remarks
Presidential candidate Donald Trump, a part-time Palm Beach resident, is getting serious backlash over comments about Mexican immigrants in his campaign announcement speech. NBC is severing ties to the outspoken celebrity business mogul, and will not air the partially Trump-owned Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants. Trump fired back with a statement accusing NBC of giving in to political correctness and being “weak and foolish.” The network is willing to “stand behind lying Brian Williams,’ Trump said, “but won’t stand behind people that tell it like it is.” Spanish-language channel Univision also severed ties will Trump last week, saying it won’t air the pageants because of his comments. Trump then barred Univision execs from his Doral golf course. In his June 16 announcement, Trump said Mexican immigrants were “bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.” He also supports building a wall along the southern border of the U.S., forcing Mexico to pay for it – a suggestion the Mexican government calls “biased and absurd.” Trump doubled down on his comments in a statement Monday. “As of today, Donald J. Trump is no longer affiliated with NBC. Mr. Trump stands by his statements on illegal immigration, which are accurate. NBC is weak, and like everybody else is trying to be politically correct — that is why our country is in serious trouble. “We must have strong borders and not let illegal immigrants enter the United States. As has been stated continuously in the press, people are pouring across our borders unabated. Public reports routinely state great amounts of crime are being committed by illegal immigrants. This must be stopped and it must be stopped now. Long ago I told NBC that I would not being doing The Apprentice because I am running for President in order to Make our Country Great Again. “If NBC is so weak and so foolish to not understand the serious illegal immigration problem in the United States, coupled with the horrendous and unfair trade deals we are making with Mexico, then their contract violating closure of Miss Universe/Miss USA will be determined in court. “Furthermore, they will stand behind lying Brian Williams, but won’t stand behind people that tell it like it is, as unpleasant as that may be.”
