Trump's son argues his dad's comments about women prove he's 'a regular person like everyone else'

Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., tested out a new defense of his father's lewd comments about women during an interview Thursday on WBT radio's Charlotte's Morning News. While many of the Republican nominee's defenders have brushed off his comments, which surfaced Friday in a tape from 2005, as "locker room talk," Donald Jr. took that argument a step further. "I think it makes him a human. I think it makes him a normal person, not a political robot. He hasn't spent his whole life waiting for this moment to run for the presidency," Donald Jr. said, noting that he's had "conversations like that with plenty of people where people use language off-color."
Donald Jr. argued that it's these moments that prove his dad is a "regular person like everyone else," which is what "endeared him to the American public" in the first place. In the tape, Trump can be heard talking about grabbing women by the genitals and bragging his celebrity status lets him do whatever he wants to women. Days after the tape was released, several women came forward Wednesday accusing Donald of trying to grope or kiss them without their consent.
In Donald Jr.'s opinion, those accusations are "ridiculous." "I've never heard anything dumber in my life," he said. "All of sudden, two, three weeks before election, someone comes out — it's not like he hasn't been in the public eye for 30 years."
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