Getty Bondi says Trump's remarks about women 'disgusting' But Florida's attorney general said she forgives Trump, will continue to back his presidential campaign

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday evening described as “disgusting” Donald Trump’s lewd remarks about women that were leaked last week to the media and caused a political firestorm in the presidential campaign.

Bondi, a loyal Trump supporter in a key battleground state, made no mention of the latest allegations raised by several women who say Trump made unwanted sexual advances against them.


Bondi made her remarks as guest speaker at a luncheon with the Florida Federation of Republican Women in Pasco County. It was the first time since the video rocked Trump’s campaign that she had spoken publicly about it.

“I believe the statements that, that Donald Trump says were disgusting … um, disgusting. Period,” Bondi told the GOP group.

Her remarks were first reported Friday evening by WFTS-TV/ABC Action News.

Bondi said she had spoken to Trump “multiple times” since the damaging video emerged last Friday, saying Trump told her that “he believes what he said was disgusting.”

“He is horrified, apologetic,” she said in describing Trump's reaction.

Bondi, echoing Trump’s running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, said she will continue to support the former reality TV star because “I believe in forgiveness.”

“I believe what Donald Trump said was disgusting,” Bondi repeated to the crowd. “I also believe in the Constitution of the United States of America.”

ABC Action News Investigative Reporter Jarrod Holbrook said he tried to interview Bondi following the luncheon, but she declined to elaborate beyond what she had told the Republican audience.

Trump's candidacy is still reeling in the aftermath of last Friday's publication of a 2005 "Access Hollywood" recording of Trump boasting about grabbing women's genitals and kissing them against their will.

Trump apologized for those comments, but described them as "locker room talk" and said, when questioned in Sunday night's debate by co-moderator Anderson Cooper, that he had never actually groped women.

The controversy didn't end there. Several women came forward, beginning Wednesday, alleging that Trump once touched them inappropriately.

Two more women lodged similar allegations on Friday, bringing to at least eight the number of women who've accused the Republican nominee of sexual assaulting them in one form or another.

Trump responded in defiant and angry terms, calling another one of his accusers a "liar" and intimating she shouldn't be believed because she's not attractive enough for him to pursue.

The back-and-forth between Trump and the growing number of accusers threatens to consume the home stretch of the campaign and turn the election into a referendum on whether people believe the Republican nominee is a sexual predator.