Thread: Trump says NBC broke law in releasing ‘Access Hollywood’ tape; Pence plane skids off

Trump says NBC broke law in releasing ‘Access Hollywood’ tape; Pence plane skids off N.Y. runway

Pence's plane skids off runway in New York

By Sean Sullivan, Abby Phillip and Ed O'Keefe
October 27 at 10:09 PM

Donald Trump suggested Thursday night that a video of him speaking in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women may have been released illegally, and he didn’t rule out suing NBC for its release.

“Certainly it was an illegal act,” Trump told Fox News in an interview, adding later that the video “was not supposed to be on.”

The Republican presidential nominee would not say whether he planned to take legal action against NBC Universal, which owns “Access Hollywood,” the program that was filming Trump when he was recorded in 2005.

“Well, you’ll see, you’ll see,” he said. “You’re going to see after the election, but I will tell you, first of all, it shouldn’t have been said, but it was locker room talk. And, yeah, I mean you know we’re gonna find out soon enough. I will tell you.”

As Trump was being interviewed, an airplane carrying Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the Republican vice presidential candidate, skidded off the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Reporters traveling with Pence said there were no injuries, but a CNN reporter said she saw what appeared to be damage to the runway.

Trump mentioned the incident during an event in Geneva, Ohio. “And by the way, I just spoke to our future vice president, and he’s okay... Everybody’s fine.” Trump said.

Pence said in a tweet that he was “So thankful everyone on our plane is safe. Grateful for our first responders & the concern & prayers of so many. Back on the trail tomorrow!”

The Federal Aviation Administration tweeted that a runway at the airport was closed and that passengers could expect delays.

Trump spent the day seeking to build on a reed-thin lead during three campaign stops in Ohio — and even suggested that the election should be scrapped.

“We should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right?” he asked supporters while campaigning in this midwestern industrial city. “What are we even having it for? Her policies are so bad!”

Trump once again questioned the stamina of Democrat Hillary Clinton and said that he would reopen federal investigations into her use of a private email server when she was secretary of state and her family’s charitable foundation.

“Hillary Clinton put the office of secretary of state up for sale,” he said. “And if she got the chance, she’d put the Oval Office up for sale.”

Clinton, campaigning in North Carolina with Michelle Obama, announced a hefty fundraising haul for the final stretch on Thursday night as she sought to borrow from the first lady’s star power. Her campaign warned supporters that the presidential election is likely to be closer than polls now appear.

“As Michelle reminds us, this election is about our kids and, in my case, our grandkids,” Clinton said. “We have a job to do. Starting right now, let’s come together. Let’s work together and be hopeful and optimistic and unified.”

Obama called Clinton a friend, and praised her qualifications and determination. “Hillary doesn’t play,” Obama said to laughter.

The first lady also warned supporters that Republicans are actively seeking to suppress turnout by making the election “so dirty and ugly that we don’t want any part of it.” She told the crowd: “When you hear folks talking about a global conspiracy and saying that this election is rigged, understand that they are trying to get you to stay home. They are trying to convince you that your vote doesn’t matter, that the outcome has already been determined and that you shouldn’t even bother to make your voice heard.”

Clinton is hoping that some of Obama’s magnetism and support among young people and African Americans can help consolidate a lead in North Carolina. Obama has emerged as probably the Democrats’ most powerful and effective voice opposing Trump, and Clinton frequently quotes the first lady’s admonition to “go high” when critics “go low.”

In a sign of the power of Obama’s appeal, the Clinton campaign booked a huge stadium for Clinton’s first in-person campaign event with the first lady. The campaign cited a local fire marshal for the crowd estimate of 11,000 people at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, more than twice the size of most of the recent events Clinton has held alone.

Later in the evening, Clinton took her early voting message to two college campuses in Greensboro -- the University of North Carolina and North Carolina A&T, which was holding its homecoming pep rally.

In Springfield, Ohio, on Thursday, Trump claimed again that Clinton appeared “tired” during the debates. Calling his rival “a low energy person,” Trump seemed to imply that Clinton was on the verge of needing physical assistance.

“I watched after the last debate and after the second debate. She was tired, wow,” Trump said. “She walked off that stage, of course she had a lot of people around; they had a lot of people around her, which was smart.”

No evidence has emerged that Clinton was suffering physically during or after the debates.

Trump has regularly raised doubts about Clinton’s health. He recently began airing a television ad that shows Clinton stumbling as she tries to get into a vehicle after a ceremony commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York. After that incident, Clinton revealed that she had been stricken with pneumonia.

Trump also took aim at the Clintons’ charitable foundation and financial dealings, pointing to private communications released by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, including a memo by top Bill Clinton aide Doug Band.

“The more emails WikiLeaks releases, the more lines between the Clinton Foundation, the secretary of state’s office and the Clintons’ personal finances, they all get blurred,” Trump said.

Band’s memo detailed what he called “Clinton Inc.,” a web of lucrative business ventures and overlapping charitable work. The memo was discovered in hacked emails from John Podesta, who is now chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

[Republican women increasingly fear party is alienating female voters]

In an interview published Thursday by Billboard magazine, Bill Clinton weighed in on Trump’s criticisms, saying that the attacks on his foundation are frustrating.

“It’s hard to hear because I know good and well that a lot of the people that are saying it know it’s not true. It’s an insult to all the people who have worked there,” he said in a profile of the former president’s charity and its ties to top performing artists, including Jon Bon Jovi.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s already-robust fundraising ratcheted up even more this month, with Trump raising only half as much, according to new campaign finance reports from the Clinton and Trump campaigns filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.

The Clinton campaign and two joint Democratic fundraising committees together pulled in $101 million in the first 19 days of October. That’s an average of $5.3 million a day, up from $5.1 million a day in September.

At the same time, Clinton’s campaign shelled out $54 million – a slower spending rate than the previous month. That gave her a hefty stockpile of cash as she heads into the final weeks of the campaign: more than $153 million.

Trump raised just $28.9 million for his presidential campaign committee in the first 19 days of October, putting him at a severe financial disadvantage in the crucial final days of the White House contest. He had just $16 million in his campaign coffers on Oct. 19.

There was scant evidence that the real estate billionaire will end up giving the $100 million he has repeatedly claimed he is donating to his bid. Trump gave his campaign about $31,000 in in-kind contributions in the first 19 days of the month -- down from the $2 million a month in cash he had been donating. His personal contributions to his campaign so far total a little more than $56 million.

Polling released Thursday afternoon by Quinnipiac University showed the tick-tock nature of the race in the closing days. According to the poll, Trump holds a one-point edge over Clinton in Georgia — 44 percent to 43 percent — but they’re tied at 44 percent each in Iowa. In North Carolina, Clinton holds a four-point advantage (47 percent to 43 percent), while she holds a 12-point edge in Virginia.

Clinton tops Trump 48 percent to 42 percent among likely voters in the tracking poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News. Clinton’s margin in the survey has barely changed from her 47-43 edge in a mid-October Post-ABC poll, but is less than the double-digit leads in earlier waves of the tracking survey reported by ABC News through Monday.

Sullivan reported from Ohio and Phillip reported from North Carolina. Matea Gold, Anne Gearan and Krissah Thompson in Washington contributed to this report.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...acb_story.html

I told you all it was illegal. Trump was under contract with NBC and in those agreements, private moments and conversations are protect by the law of contracts.

I hope he sues the hell out of NBC for that illegal release of the tape, and apparently, he's primed to do so after the election.