The New York Post and Page Six have a long-standing hatred for all things NBC. If you believe Page Six, they also have some great sources within NBC too, which means that whenever there’s an NBC-related scandal, Page Six/NYP often leads the tabloid-style coverage. So, obviously, Page Six has been all over the Billy Bush-related part of the Donald-Trump-Tape. The 2005 Access Hollywood tape featured Donald Trump bragging to Billy Bush about how he (Trump) tried to move in on Nancy O’Dell “like a bitch” when she was married, and how he (Trump) could do anything to women because he was famous, including assaulting them by “grabbing them by the p-ssy.” All while Bush laughed and egged him on.

The reason I didn’t initially make a big deal about Billy Bush’s role in the tape was because I had a bitchy-Cassandra moment last Friday and thought “It would be awful if Billy Bush faced harsher repercussions than Trump.” It’s not that Bush’s words and creepiness were any less scandalous, it’s that Billy Bush isn’t running for president. In no way should we be MORE outraged by Bush’s part than Trump’s part. And yet five days after the tape dropped, we’re still talking about Billy Bush. Here’s what Page Six has to say about him:

Bush’s fixer. Yesterday, Page Six said Bush is really worried about his job and he’s been talking about getting a “fixer” or crisis manager to help him deal with the fallout from the tape.

But he’s probably going to be fired anyway. Sources say Bush will be fired at some point, but no one knows when: “He is technically fired. It’s just a matter of time. NBC isn’t ready to announce it yet. They are negotiating his exit.” NBC is treating this with kid gloves because “NBC was burned by the Ann Curry debacle and they are trying to figure out how to do this.” Don’t compare this situation to Ann Curry. Curry didn’t do anything! Bush laughed as a sexual predator bragged about assaulting women.

Bush might have more tapes. Considering we’re less than four weeks from the election, NBC should be focused on getting more archival footage of Trump not Bush, but insiders are concerned that there are more tapes of Bush being awful.

Bush won’t get a “soft landing.” He won’t be shoved in some far corner of the NBC family, he will likely be fired outright for “stupidity” (seriously, people say he’s dumb) and “morality.” On-air NBC personalities have morality clauses in their contracts and the tape violated that.

Bush had bragged about the tape months ago. According to sources, “Bush bragged to his NBC colleagues about the crude tape with Trump while covering the Olympics in Rio. Now there is an internal investigation at NBC to find out exactly who knew about the tape after Rio.” Meaning… NBC executives could have known about the existance of the tape back in August and maybe NBC suppressed the tape?

And here’s my favorite part of Page Six’s coverage of this scandal: Bush has apparently been in contact with Trump or some of Trump’s people. And Trump wanted to help out his macho alpha-male buddy and Trump offered to “help” with Bush’s PR. A source says: “Trump offered to handle some of the press, but Billy thinks his best course of action is to keep his distance.”

The only part of this reporting that’s being significantly backed up is the part about Bush and NBC negotiating Bush’s exit – everyone’s reporting that now. Bush and NBC are in talks and while Bush is definitely leaving, my guess is that he’ll get a lot of money for leaving. TMZ is also reporting that Bush and several other men on staff at NBC were often lewd and objectifying to women as well.

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