Donald Trump is sticking by his comments, even if it continues to give him bad press.
On Wednesday, the former President participated in a live town hall hosted by CNN and was pressed on the infamous “grab them by the p****” tape that came up during E. Jean Carroll’s rape and defamation trial.
Moderator Kaitlan Collins asked him, “There was a taped deposition of you from October, and you defended the comments you made on that ‘Access Hollywood’ tape about being able to grab women how you want. Do you stand by those comments?” Trump stood by his comments completely while trying to clarify what he meant…
“I said women let you, I didn’t say you grab… I said women let — you know, you didn’t use that word — but if you look, women let you,’ Trump said. “Now, they said, will you take that back? I said, look, for a million years this is the way it’s been.” He added, “I want to be honest, this is the way it’s been,’ he added. ‘You would like me to take that back. I can’t take it back because it happens to be true,” Trump added.
Trump’s response to the tape Collins also pressed Trump about Tuesday’s verdict in New York that found he was liable for the sexual assault of Carroll at a department store in the 1990s, but not for rape. Although Trump has denied the charge, he was still ordered to pay $5 million in damages.
During the town hall, Trump repeatedly insisted he did not know Carroll. “This is a fake story. Made-up story,” Trump said, later adding, “I have no idea who the hell she is. She’s a whack job.” He continued, “What kind of woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes you’re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room,” Trump said as the crowd laughed. When asked if he thinks the jury’s findings will deter other women from voting for him in the upcoming presidential election, Trump said: “No I don’t think so.”
Further, into the big televised event, Donald Trump still refused to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden and called his defeat “rigged” and “sad.”
“Unless you are a very stupid person, you see what happens…most people understand what happened, it was a rigged election, and it was a shame we had to go through it,” he told Collins.
The televised town hall event in New Hampshire on Wednesday evening was Trump’s first appearance on CNN since the 2016 election, and his first appearance since the verdict.
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