On Monday evening, Nancy O’Dell opened Entertainment Tonight with a few remarks about the now-notorious footage of Donald Trump and Billy Bush blathering and, in Bush’s case, giggling about sexual assault. O’Dell, the woman subjected to Trump’s furniture store hump-quest, had no desire to be entangled in the festering web of the GOP’s campaign. But since she had no choice in the matter, she has addressed it directly.
“I’m sure that most of you have heard the audio tape which became national news and part of the presidential race,” she begins. “My name was mentioned and, unfortunately, the release of it has thrown me into the middle of the political arena of which I didn’t ask to be a part.”