NBC allegedly planned to edit Trump tapes, save Billy Bush

...we didn't learn about the Trump tape earlier due to an elaborate effort to save Billy Bush's career

Yet another Bush is losing the 2016 election.


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— apparently NBC was not so hot on the idea of dethroning the recently-promoted Bush. He ascended to Today from Access Hollywood, where he had served as a perfectly bland, celebrity-sycophant of a co-anchor since 2004, only months ago. This, perhaps, accounts for the delay in the tape’s release: NBC claims the network was working on a broadcast report about the tape on Friday, just as the tape was leaked to the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold, who published it first.

Why the hold-up? According to People magazine, NBC planned to edit Bush out of the Trump tapes:


“They could have released the tape and edited him out,” the source says of the individual that leaked the footage. “That was the plan — they were trying to approve it and then someone leaked it. That’s what Access Hollywood eventually did and they played it … but it was already out,” the source says and adds, “If they wanted to protect him, they could have edited it out which they did on the final Access piece that aired on Friday, but they left it in when it was leaked.”


MORE:
https://thinkprogress.org/nbc-allegedly-planned-to-edit-trump-tapes-save-billy-bush-c6d1404bfb47#.mr50x41al
http://people.com/tv/devastated-billy-bush-cant-recover-from-leaked-donald-trump-tape/