In a New York Times op-ed Sunday, former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush responded to recent reports in the Times and The Washington Post that President Trump has been telling people privately he doubts the veracity of a 2005 Access Hollywood tape where he told Bush he grabbed women by the genitals. "Of course he said it," Bush said. He assumed at the time it was "hypothetical hot air from America's highest-rated bloviator," he wrote, but he believes the more than 20 women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment and misconduct. Trump's private denials "hit a raw nerve in me," Bush said. "I can only imagine how it has reopened the wounds of the women who came forward with their stories about him."

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