In an op-ed in the New York Times, Billy Bush trashes Trump's claims that the “pussygate” tape, in which the president brags about assaulting women, is fake.
Of course he said it. And we laughed along, without a single doubt that this was hypothetical hot air from America's highest-rated bloviator. Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act. He was performing. Surely, we thought, none of this was real.
We now know better.
Trump has yet to respond.