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Report: Trump Suggested ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape ‘Not Authentic’

HUH?

Trump has reportedly made the suggestion in light of the allegations against Roy Moore.

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President Donald Trump has reportedly suggested at least twice in private that the so-called Access Hollywood tape—which shows him bragging about groping women—is fake. “He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently,” The New York Times reported, in a story about Trump’s risky political move to back Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate who is mired in sexual misconduct allegations. Trump, of course, issued an on-camera apology shortly after the comments were published last October, and admitted to making the remarks.

Read it at New York Times