{"id":22438,"date":"2021-01-02T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=22438"},"modified":"2021-01-02T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T16:28:54","slug":"trump-sexual-assault-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/trump-sexual-assault-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Sexual Assault Recording and NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t NBC News air the Trump sexual assault recording? Did they deliberately cover it up? How long have they known?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, the Donald Trump sexual assault recording\u2014where he described how he would sexually harass women by \u201cgrabbing them by the pussy\u201d\u2014surfaced in the media. The story dominated all major headlines, except that of NBC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about why NBC News hid the Trump sexual assault recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump Sexual Assault Recording: \u201cGrab Them by the Pussy\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 7, 2016,  the <em>Washington Post <\/em>broke the story that Donald Trump, businessman, television star, and current Republican nominee for President of the United States, had been caught on video back in 2015 bragging about committing sexual assault. The audio captured Trump\u2019s now-infamous boast about how he committed sexual offenses against women with impunity, \u201cGrab[bing] them by the pussy\u201d and claiming,<strong> <\/strong>\u201cWhen you\u2019re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.\u201d<strong> <\/strong>The story of Trump sexual assault recording dominated headlines and even prompted calls from some Republican Party officials for Trump to step off the ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yet NBC\u2019s coverage of the incident was strangely muted.<\/strong> Why? Because Trump, at the time of the video recording, had been an NBC employee, as the host of the popular reality television contest show <em>The Apprentice<\/em>. To make matters <em>worse<\/em>, Billy Bush, a current NBC host, was seen on the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/advantages-of-laughing\/\">laughing<\/a> at and encouraging Trump\u2019s comments, piping in with, \u201cYes! The Donald has scored!\u201d To make matters worse <em>still<\/em>, Billy Bush was being promoted as a new <em>Today <\/em>host in the fall of 2016. 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