Trump had these choice words in 1993 on his womanising ways: ‘it’s fortunate I don’t have to run for political office’

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Donald Trump in a 23-year-old video interview unearthed in New Zealand talks about his womanising image and saying it was fortunate that he didn’t have to run for political office. Photo: Twitter

Published: 3:50pm, 10 Oct 2016

A 23-year-old video interview unearthed in New Zealand shows Donald Trump talking about his womanising image and saying it was fortunate that he didn’t have to run for political office.

The video was released Monday by New Zealand’s TV3, which conducted the 1993 interview with Trump, now the US Republican presidential nominee. At the time, Trump was making an ultimately unsuccessful bid to start a casino in New Zealand.

In the video, interviewer Owen Poland asks Trump: “On a more personal level, a lot of people have this image of you as a high-rolling tycoon associated with glamorous women. Is that the sort of image you enjoy of yourself?”

Trump responds: “No, I don’t enjoy that image. I guess I have that image. I think women are beautiful, I think certain women are more beautiful than others, to be perfectly honest. And it’s fortunate I don’t have to run for political office.”

On Friday, a 2005 tape was released in which Trump bragged about kissing women and grabbing their genitals without their consent. During the second presidential debate in St. Louis on Sunday, Trump repeatedly called his comments “locker room talk.”

The New Zealand television station’s Newshub newsgathering division on Monday released just the 30-second back-and-forth with Trump and not the full 1993 interview.

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