When the "Access Hollywood" tape was initially released in October 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump acknowledged that he was the one who'd said those disgusting things about women. "This was locker room talk," Trump insisted during a presidential debate (via NBC). "I'm not proud of it, I apologize to my family, I apologize to the American people ... but this is locker room talk." By May 2017, Trump had been elected president, and he evidently decided that he'd now be able to deny what he had once admitted. "We don't think that was my voice," Trump reportedly told a senator, according to The New York Times.

That didn't fly with Billy Bush, the man who was actually there when those infamous words were uttered. In fact, by that point, Bush had suffered more consequences for what happened than the president had. To correct the record, Bush wrote an op-ed for The New York Times, reminding Trump that he had, indeed, been the one to brag about the access that he felt his celebrity gave him to women's bodies.

"Of course he said it," Bush wrote, summarizing the accusations of the numerous women who have credibly accused Trump of assault. "... I will never know the fear you felt or the frustration of being summarily dismissed and called a liar, but I do know a lot about the anguish of being inexorably linked to Donald Trump," he added. "You have my respect and admiration."