Lawyer For Trump Accuser Jill Harth Blasts Those Making Excuses For His Hot Mic Comments

Lisa Bloom: “We All Know Trump Was Bragging About Sexual Assault On That Tape, There's Just No Other Way Around It”

From the October 10 edition of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes:

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CHRIS HAYES (HOST): Your response to Trump's response, particularly telling the moderator he's never done anything like that.

LISA BLOOM: Well, it's honestly really sickening to me as a woman, as Jill Harth's attorney, I have spent hours talking to her about the pain that she says Donald Trump caused her. And I think what was missing in his very robotic apology, that obviously Kellyanne Conway wrote for him, is any sense of the damage that this has caused. I have to say locker room talk and I have to say I apologize. Okay, now let's move on and talk about ISIS. And a genuine apology by a person who had a conscience would take into account the women that he's harmed, women like Jill Harth who has maintained since 1997, when she filed a lawsuit against him, that he groped her, that he sexually assaulted her and it is sexual assault, take it from me, the lawyer, if you grab a woman by her genitals or you grab her breasts. That is very clearly a sexual assault. 

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One of the things I love is a lot of professional athletes on Twitter saying I've spent a lot of time in locker rooms and actually this is not how we talk. This is clearly the talking point for Trump and his surrogates, is it's locker room talk. I would like to point out, they were not in a locker room. In fact, they were in a workplace, a television set where there was a bunch of people around, they may have all been guys but you know what, I've represented a lot of men in sexual harassment cases and I can tell you a lot of men find this offensive as well. They are talking about a woman, the actress when they get out of the bus and she's there getting paid to smile and be nice. She then has to hug Donald Trump after he's just talked about what he likes to do to women, stick his tongue down their throat, you know, grope their genitals. She has to be in that position. This is a workplace. It's not a locker room. 

HAYES: That's a very good point. This is a professional workplace and there are lots of laws guiding how one acts in those environments. 

Previously:

MSNBC's Joy Reid Highlights Trump's “Predatory Use Of Celebrity” Against Women

Meet Jill Harth, One Of The Trump Sexual Assault Accusers His Media Surrogates Ignore

NY Times' Kristof Compares Jill Harth's Sexual Assault Allegations Against Trump To Women Harassed At Fox By Roger Ailes

Reminder To The Media: Trump Is The Worst Possible Messenger On The Clintons’ Marriage

A Trump Apologist Told Ana Navarro Not To Say “Pussy” On CNN. It Didn't Go Well For Her.