Porn clip with Trump emerges
GLASS HOUSE Explicit video of mogul surfaces day after he attacked exbeauty queen over ‘sex tape’
WASHINGTON: Hours after US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attacked a former beauty queen on Twitter with an allegation about a sex tape, an explicit 2000 Playboy softcore pornography video surfaced in which Trump had reportedly made an appearance.
In a short clip posted on BuzzFeed, Trump pours a bottle of champagne on a Playboybranded limo on a New York street, surrounded by a gaggle of women.
“Beauty is beauty, and let’s see what happens with New York,” Trump says in the video in which he has been described as an “entrepreneur”.
“From luxuriating in a warm, soapy tub, to revelling at an exclusive night club, Carol and Darlene bare their sex appeal and lead you on a sensual journey of discovery,” the cover of the tape reads.
BuzzFeed News said it obtained the footage from the online-only Buffalo, New Yorkbased adult video store Cinema Cornucopia.
The Clinton campaign was quick to respond. “There’s been a lot of talk about sex tapes today and in a strange turn of events only one adult film has emerged today, and its star is Donald Trump,” said Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill.
Trump’s pre-dawn Twitter tirade tore into the 1996 Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, a Venezuela-born woman whose weight gain Trump has said created terrible problems for the pageant he owned at the time. Clinton had cited Trump’s treatment of Machado near the end of their first debate, and Trump has spent days revisiting his complaints about Machado.
“Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?” read a tweet Trump posted at 5:30 a.m., one in a series of attacks on her.
The “sex tape” tweet apparently referred to footage from a Spanish reality show in 2005 in which Machado was a contestant and appeared on camera in bed with a male contestant. The images are grainy and do not include nudity, though Machado later acknowledged in the Hispanic media that she was having sex in the video.
With the presidential campaign taking a sordid turn, even many of Trump’s supporters shook their heads, worried that their candidate’s latest outburst could further hurt him among female voters already skeptical but whose support he’ll badly need to win in November.
Even Trump’s most vocal allies seemed at a loss for words.
“He’s being Trump. I don’t have any comment beyond that,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a top supporter. Gingrich said tersely that Trump sometimes does “strange things.”