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Attacking Trump and Defending Himself



Billy Bush appeared on “The Late Show” on Monday, rejecting President Trump’s recent claims that his voice was not in fact featured on the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape. He was echoing an Op-Ed he published in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.



STEPHEN COLBERT: Now, this is the first interview you have done about what happened on that bus, since Donald Trump became our president, and since he started privately denying that that’s him on that bus.



BILLY BUSH: Yeah.



STEPHEN COLBERT: O.K.



BILLY BUSH: By the way, I would also like to say that’s not me on the bus. You don’t get to say that, because I was there and the last 14 months of my life I have been dealing with it. You dealt with it for 14 minutes and went on to be the president.



STEPHEN COLBERT: All right, don’t give away the ending.



Mr. Colbert didn’t let Mr. Bush — who seemed to be egging Mr. Trump on during parts of the tape — get away with an easy self-exoneration.



BILLY BUSH: If I had thought there was a man detailing a sexual assault strategy to me, I would have called the F.B.I., not just reported it to my executive producer. So you know, that was it for me.



STEPHEN COLBERT: So why were you on the bus with him to begin with, again?



BILLY BUSH: Well, it was Season 3, I guess, of “The Apprentice.” So I was with him a lot. I was with him all the time.



STEPHEN COLBERT: You were working for an NBC property.



BILLY BUSH: Yes, like I wrote in the Op-Ed, I think a lot of us were, the big word is “complicit.” But everybody had to sort of kiss the ring a little bit of the Donald, because he was making so much money for NBC.



STEPHEN COLBERT: And where was he wearing that ring?



BILLY BUSH: [laughs]

