Trump released a video statement early Saturday morning in response to a video released on Friday of a graphic conversation between him and Access Hollywood's Billy Bush.
"I've never said I was a perfect person or pretended to be someone that I'm not. I've said and done things that I regret and the words released today on this decades old video are one of them," Trump said in the statement.
"I've said it, I was wrong, and I apologize."
Watch Trump's full video statement below:
The video sent shock waves through the presidential campaign on Thursday and provoked negative reaction from both democrats and republicans.
In the video Trump blurted out lewd and sexually charged comments about women to Billy Blush as he waited to make a cameo appearance on a soap opera in 2005. The Republican presidential nominee issued a rare apology Friday, "if anyone was offended."
Trump bragged about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women who were not his wife on audio and video recordings obtained by The Washington Post and NBC News. The celebrity businessman boasted "when you're a star, they let you do it," in a conversation with Billy Bush, then a host of the television show "Access Hollywood."
Governor Mike Pence avoided the topic when questioned Friday during his rally in Rossford, Ohio. He was scheduled to replace Trump at an event in Wisconsin, but canceled.
On Saturday, Pence released a statement on the comments.
"As a husband and father, I was offended by the words and actions described by Donald Trump in the eleven-year-old video released yesterday. I do not condone his remarks and cannot defend them. I am grateful he has expressed remorse and apologized to the American people. We pray for his family and look forward to the opportunity he has to show what is in his heart when he goes before the nation tomorrow night."
My statement below: pic.twitter.com/92VYEAxIcl
— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) October 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton responded the video on her Twitter saying: “This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president.”
This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president. https://t.co/RwhW7yeFI2
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 7, 2016
And her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine reacted to the video while speaking in Las Vegas Friday evening.
“It makes me sick to my stomach. I don’t like to even say the words that he’s used in the past when he calls women pigs, dogs and slobs. I didn’t like saying it on stage the other night when my mom and wife were sitting in the front row,” said Kaine.
This kind of behavior is disgusting. It makes me sick to my stomach. https://t.co/mOUKgr6axl
— Senator Tim Kaine (@timkaine) October 7, 2016
Speaker Paul Ryan said he’s ‘sickened’ by the comments. Trump was set to campaign in Wisconsin with Ryan on Saturday, but now Governor Mike Pence will be taking his place.
Lieutenant Governor Eric Holcomb released the following statement Friday evening:
“These are absolutely unacceptable thoughts and comments.”
And in a short statement the GOP chairman Reince Priebus said “No woman should ever be described in these terms.”
Trump is set to meet with the chairman, Governor Chris Christie and Senator Jeff Sessions on Saturday, before he flies out to St. Louis for Sunday’s presidential debate.
