Billy Bush returns to ‘Extra,’ says ‘Access Hollywood’ tape was ‘weaponized’
{mosads}”I was not prepared for what happened, because it happened, like so often things do these days, like that. Took the car to the airport, got on the plane, and boom,” Bush told King in an interview that aired on “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday.
King asked if the contents of the tape, which included Trump saying he could grab women “by the p—-” without consequence because of his celebrity status, were known to others at NBC.
“Are you angry at Donald Trump?” King asked.
“No,” Bush replied.
“Not at all?” King pressed.
“Not for that,” Bush insisted. “No. I mean, he was being him. I think part of that personality and character was why he was successful in a boardroom, making people fight over lemonade stands.”
Bush also revealed to King he received a phone call from the 43rd president after the tape was released.
“I’m so mad, I should fight back,” Billy Bush recalls telling George W. Bush.
“He said, ‘Nope. Just, you know, take what they give you and walk away. And work on you,'” Bush recalled the former president saying.
Bush, 47, was also a co-host of the third hour of NBC’s “Today” before being fired in October 2016.
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