Vice President Joe Biden had a strong reaction Wednesday night to the lewd comments Donald Trump made 11 years ago on the Access Hollywood bus with Billy Bush. The leaked tape from that day is not only torpedoing Trump's campaign, it's encouraging women to speak out on past abuses committed by Trump. Speaking about the audio—in which Trump says he can get away with kissing and grabbing women because he's a star—Biden, in full dad-teaching-a-lesson mode, more or less said Trump admitted to sexual assault.

“First of all, what I found astounding is that he would so publicly, no matter who he was talking to, that he would acknowledge that he engaged in the textbook definition of sexual assault,” Biden told Seth Meyers on Late Night. The VP continued to excoriate the Republican candidate for president in the interview, saying Trump had committed what Biden considers to be the "cardinal sin."

“My dad used to say the greatest sin of all is the abuse of power, and the cardinal sin of all is a man raising his hand or taking advantage of a woman,” Biden said. “And here’s a guy who says, ‘I’m a star,' talk about power, 'I'm a billionaire, I'm a star, I'm a celebrity, so I can go in, intimidate women into allowing me to assault them and assume they’re not going to say anything.’ That is the ultimate abuse of power and I don’t understand how anyone can remotely justify that.”

In the wake of the tape, multiple women have accused Trump of groping them. Trump is fighting the allegations by demanding a retraction from The New York Times. Good luck with that.