Senator say grabbing a woman's vagina is not sexual assault

Senator Jeff Sessions (Rep. AL) found himself on the hot seat on Monday [October 10], after it was reported that he told The Weekly Standard that beyond "improper language," he saw nothing wrong with Donald Trump's 2005 comments about his ability to grab a woman's genitals without asking.

"I don't characterize that as sexual assault. I think that's a stretch. I don't know what he meant," Sessions said, before telling the publication that he doesn't necessarily see the behavior with Trump's comments as a violation. "I don't know. It's not clear that he — how that would occur," he said.

The comment's Session was addressing were those unearthed from a recording of a private conversation Trump was having with Access Hollywood's Billy Bush in 2005. People with his star power can have their way with women, Trump told Bush. He bragged about going up to women and kissing them without asking, before saying that woman tend to let him "grab them by the p***y."

The GOP candidate's campaign has been reeling from the bombshell, since it surfaced on Friday, leading many within the party to demand that he bow out of the race. Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani himself likened the act that the presidential hopeful was describing, to sexual assault, in an interview with George Stephanopoulos during the most recent taping of This Week.

Sessions' position on Trump's comments mirror the attitude he expressed having over the panic that followed the leaking of the 11-year-old audio. Prior to Sunday night's presidential debate, he is reported to have stated: "This thing is overblown. Everybody knows that Trump likes women. This is not a disqualifying event."

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