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Donald Trump issued a defiant apology Saturday morning for lewd and sexually aggressive remarks he made a decade ago - and then made it clear he is girding himself for a nasty political battle. The GOP presidential nominee posted a 90-second video just after midnight on social media, telling voters that he is not a "perfect person" and that the words captured by a hot mic in 2005 "don't reflect who I am."
REVEALED: TV host Nancy O'Dell is the married woman who Trump claims he tried to 'F***', then took shopping for furniture, in his lewd hot mic boast to her former colleague Billy Bush 'I've never said I'm a perfect person': Trump APOLOGIZES in a video released on Friday night for crude recording where he is heard boasting that his celebrity status allows him to do 'anything' to women - but can't resist attacking Clinton EXCLUSIVE: Billy Bush is an 'entitled jock' who polarized opinion in the studio, according to an NBC source, who has called for him to be sacked Donald Trump tried to have Nancy O'Dell dropped from hosting the Miss USA pageant in 2007 'because she was pregnant' Drop out Trump! Senior Republicans call for the GOP candidate to step down immediately as Speaker Paul Ryan insists he is 'sickened' by The Donald's lewd comments but refuses to take back his endorsement Here come ... (more)
REVEALED: TV host Nancy O'Dell is the married woman who Trump claims he tried to 'F***', then took shopping for furniture, in his lewd hot mic boast to her former colleague Billy Bush 'I've never said I'm a perfect person': Trump APOLOGIZES in a video released on Friday night for crude recording where he is heard boasting that his celebrity status allows him to do 'anything' to women - but can't resist attacking Bill and EXCLUSIVE: Billy Bush is an 'entitled jock' who polarized opinion in the studio, according to an NBC source, who has called for him to be sacked Donald Trump tried to have Nancy O'Dell dropped from hosting the Miss USA pageant in 2007 'because she was pregnant' Drop out Trump! Senior Republicans call for the GOP candidate to step down immediately as Speaker Paul Ryan insists he is 'sickened' by The Donald's lewd comments but refuses to take back his endorsement Here come ... (more)
REVEALED: TV host Nancy O'Dell is the married woman who Trump claims he tried to 'F***', then took shopping for furniture, in his lewd hot mic boast to her former colleague Billy Bush 'I've never said I'm a perfect person': Trump APOLOGIZES in a video released on Friday night for crude recording where he is heard boasting that his celebrity status allows him to do 'anything' to women - but can't resist attacking Bill and EXCLUSIVE: Billy Bush is an 'entitled jock' who polarized opinion in the studio, according to an NBC source, who has called for him to be sacked Donald Trump tried to have Nancy O'Dell dropped from hosting the Miss USA pageant in 2007 'because she was pregnant' Drop out Trump! Senior Republicans call for the GOP candidate to step down immediately as Speaker Paul Ryan insists he is 'sickened' by The Donald's lewd comments but refuses to take back his endorsement Here come ... (more)
Hillary Clinton will return to the state on Monday, which is the day before Ohio's voter registration deadline. An exact location and time has not yet been set for her planned Columbus-area appearance.
SLUG: CTY PENCE08 10/7/2016 The Blade/ Amy E. Voigt Rossford, OH CAPTION: The bus for Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence arrives in to Rossford on October 7, 2016. About 500 people saw Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence at the Rossford Community Recreation Center.
Donald Trump has insulted a war hero, criticized the family of a fallen soldier, mocked a disabled reporter and remained in the game. But the appearance Friday of a video in which he brags crudely about making sexual advances to a married woman is raising questions once again: Has Donald Trump gone too far? And could this be the one that sinks his presidential bid? Possibly not, some analysts suggested, given the Republican presidential nominee's already well-documented history of making remarks critical of women.
Hillary Clinton's campaign says it will not confirm the authenticity of emails from campaign co-chairman John Podesta that WikiLeaks released Friday. The campaign is blaming the intrusion on Russian state actors seeking to help rival Donald Trump.
Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, speaks during a Nevada Democratic Party rally at the Carpenters International Training Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016.
Never mind Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings-what we're really looking foward to this Sunday is round two of the presidential debate between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton. The first debate was a disaster for Trump, who later declared his distaste for: Clinton on the grounds that she launched personal attacks; on moderator Lester Holt for being hard on him; and on organizers for giving him a "broken microphone".
Wikileaks has finally released some of the anti-Hillary Clinton material it has been promising, in the form of emails from the account of campaign chairman John Podesta. I haven't had time to read many of them, but Drudge highlighted an email from campaign research director Tony Carrk that quoted potentially damaging excerpts from Hillary's speeches to Goldman Sachs and the like.
Transcripts of Hillary Clinton's private speeches appeared to be included in a trove of thousands of emails released by Wikileaks on Friday. The transcripts, which appear to have been gleaned from speeches given to some Wall Street firms, reveal Clinton's remarks on a number of topics that, at times, appear to be both pro-markets and pro-consumer.
In this Oct. 6, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall in Sandown, N.H. Trump made a series of lewd and sexually charged comments about women as he waited to make a cameo appearance on a soap opera in 2005. The Republican presidential nominee issued a rare apology Friday, "if anyone was offended."
In his 33 years as a late-night entertainer, David Letterman was both a host and an antagonist to politicians of every stripe. He took a centrist approach to NBC's Late Night and at CBS' Late Show , holding wide-ranging conversations with President Bill Clinton or Senator John McCain on a given evening, then bringing the satirical hammer down on them the following night.
At a town-hall campaign event in New Hampshire on Thursday, Trump insisted Clinton wasn't actually prepping as much as she was getting credit for. "I said forget debate prep.
Artist Pedro Reyes thinks American politics are pretty darn terrifying, especially this election year, and he wants to scare the wits out of you with his "Doomocracy" exhibition. Alternately called "The Haunted House of Political Horrors This Oct. 4, 2016 photo provided by Creative Time shows a scene from a satirical performance-based installation called "Doomocracy" or "The Haunted House of Political Horrors," in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
Shame has dominated and shaped our current election. While Trump certainly set the tone by labeling Hillary Clinton as "Crooked Hillary" and by bullying his Republican rivals with his name calling, interrupting and demeaning comments, he is not the only reason shame has played such a dominant role in the 2016 election.
Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, speaks during a Nevada Democratic Party rally at the Carpenters International Training Center in Las Vegas, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. FILE - In this July 6, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets striking workers outside the Trump Taj Mahal Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. On Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, the last vestige of Donald Trump will vanish from Atlantic City when the Trump Taj Mahal casino shuts down.