Donald Trump was recently accused by multiple women of walking into the backstage of a teen beauty pageant he ran in 1997 while some of the contestants were naked. Trump insisted it never happened — describing those accusations and the sexual assault allegations against him as “lies, lies, no witnesses, no nothing, all big lies.”
Stephen Colbert corroborates some of Trump’s accusers — with Trump’s own words
Well then.
“Okay. Lies. All lies, he says,” Late Show host Stephen Colbert said on his show Monday night. “Was there anyone — anyone at all — backstage at this pageant who could corroborate her story?”
Colbert then rolled 2005 audio of Trump on The Howard Stern Show:
I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone’s getting dressed and everything else. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant, and therefore I’m inspecting it. … They’re standing there with no clothes. Is everybody okay? And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.
Oh.
“Folks, folks, folks, what are you going to do?” Colbert asked. “It’s a classic case of she said, he said ‘hell yeah.’”
It seems, though, that a lot of people are taking Trump’s own words — including the “grab ’em by the pussy” tape — and the allegations against him seriously. Trump is now down 7 points to Hillary Clinton in the RealClearPolitics polling average, compared to a 1-point gap a month ago.
Trump, however, has come up with several conspiracy theories to explain his fall:
Colbert finished the segment by drawing a diagram that puts together all of these conspiracy theories. It ends with a bit of a surprise, so make sure to watch the clip above.
