- President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has known movie mogul Harvey Weinstein ‘a long time’
- He said he’s ‘not surprised’ by the revelations Weinstein paid eight women money to settle sexual harassment claims
- Trump was asked how Weinstein revelations differed from Access Hollywood tape in which Trump is overheard saying he grabs women by the genitals
- President replied: ‘That’s locker room. That’s locker room.’
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has known movie mogul Harvey Weinstein ‘a long time’ and that he’s ‘not surprised’ by the revelations he paid eight women money to settle sexual harassment claims.
When asked by a reporter how the Weinstein revelations were different from an Access Hollywood tape in which Trump is overheard saying he grabs women by the genitals, he replied: ‘That’s locker room. That’s locker room.’
The president made the remarks to reporters at the White House on Saturday.
Trump saying he’s ‘not surprised’ suggests that like many Hollywood insiders and heavyweights, he knew about Weinstein’s behavior and did nothing to stop it.
Ironically, Trump’s comments about Weinstein were made nearly one year to the day that an audio tape of him bragging about ‘grabbing women by the p***y’ was leaked.
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has known movie mogul Harvey Weinstein ‘a long time’ and that he’s ‘not surprised’ by the revelations he paid eight women money to settle sexual harassment claims. Trump and his wife, Melania, are seen above with Weinstein (far right) and his wife, Georgina Chapman, in New York in December 2009
Trump was overheard using crude language about women while speaking with Billy Bush during a taping of an Access Hollywood segment in 2005.
The ‘p***ygate controversy’ which erupted during last year’s presidential campaign threatened to derail Trump’s candidacy.
Trump apologized for the remarks, which he attributed to ‘locker room talk’.
In the wake of ‘p***ygate,’ Bush was fired from his job at NBC. He had been a regular presence on the TODAY show.
Trump’s comments were also made one day after Weinstein took an indefinite leave of absence as the co-chairman of The Weinstein Company, the hit-producing Hollywood studio.
The New York Times on Thursday published a bombshell story saying that Weinstein paid eight different woman financial settlements following claims of alleged sexual harassment.
Weinstein is on indefinite leave from the company he co-founded while it conducts an investigation into the allegations.