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^That about covers it, homey! Trump has signposted his insanely stupid Clinton plan for Sunday. It is absolutely suicide and most of his team must know it. "Looks like the product of a plea bargain," Lawrence O'Donnell says of the video. Everyone hates it. So far the unendorse count is at: Huntsman, Jason Chaffetz, Mark Kirk and... the governor of Utah whose name I can't remember. Did Halperin really call in to MSNBC upset?

He's locked in to attacking the Clintons on Sunday. That will be a disaster for him.

This is hilarious. He sounds like he's a Disney animatronic. Woodenly reciting at gunpoint. "Bill Clinton!" 90 seconds long. Jason Chaffetz of Utah has abandoned him, unendorsing.

Supposedly, NBC itself was working on a version of today's bombshell for Monday when David Fahrenthold and the Post beat them to it. My suspicion: The NBC version sanitized itself by omitting Billy Bush. Sean Hannity is claiming Trump will make a "video statement" tonight. Good luck!

Oh, my God. Poor Ari. AP: But except for Jon Huntsman and the governor of Utah, no unendorsements - yet. From the Chamber of Commerce:

More.

They'll burn no matter what. He will never stop down. But they're desperate.

Oh.

Long-suffering Republican strategist Ana Navarro has been firing at Trump on every media avenue available for months, but today may be her most epic moment: I wonder if the woman above is also the woman Erin Burnett mentioned live on CNN - a friend with the same 'tic-tac' story. This is becoming a Cosby scenario. One wonders if Ryan will dare appear with Trump at a major campaign event tomorrow as planned. Jon Huntsman just demanded Trump drop it. Update: Apparently Ryan may have dropped Trump from their joint event.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (in a link because the fuckin' 'insert media' button STILL doesn't work)

The full video - which MSNBC is running from beginning to end now - is especially horrible. You can hear both Bush and Trump not only talking about past women but ogling Ari and talking about how "the Donald has scored". Then it ends on them getting out and ordering her to hug them both. The poor woman. Billy Bush's first statement: And yes - they are discussing Bush's co-host Nancy O'Dell early in the tape.

Pence on the run. Page Six on Billy Bush and who leaked the tape.

That is not going to be a big story. The latest Trumpocalypse far eclipses that and much else.

The Obama administration officlally accuses Russia of trying to influence the elections.

I am sure Team Clinton is on the phone trying to get Ari Zucker. Knowing Ken Corday's arch-conservative ass, I'm willing to bet he will block that.

Both CNN and MSNBC are saying it. It was over before this, but this is the headshot.

Billy Bush is an obnoxious celebrity journalist on one of the fluff celeb gossip shows - Access Hollywood, I think. He's a nobody these days. Maybe he joined one of the morning shows? I have no idea. And yes, Trump was always viewed as a charlatan and buffoon before the election, which is why it took so long for the media to adjust. I think the way some of them struggled to normalize him to try to make this year fit a usual election season is contemptible - we all knew he was an ignorant, misogynistic bigot from the beginning. They were desperate for a horse race and were totally amoral and lazy in their handling of it. Now most of them have come around, but I wonder how dogged Trump loyalist and supposedly unbiased NBC analyst Mark Halperin - last seen whining on Twitter about how the media has a double standard for Mike Pence vs. Tim Kaine - will take this. Speaking of, Halperin's "With All Due Respect" co-hosts on MSNBC (he is absent) just called the time of death for Trump's campaign - LOL. The video is especially sleazy - listening to Trump and Bush sneer and slather, then get off the bus and try to sleaze all over poor Ari Zucker.

People are saying Billy Bush deleted his twitter over this. Is God indeed real? And no, this isn't about his supporters (though I think this will pull evangelical women, as will the Machado story). It's all about the undecideds and the last two weeks especially have been nuclear for him on that front.

I think so many things made it "over for Trump" that would've ended any other normal politician a thousand times over in the last year. They didn't because for so long we all treated Trump as a mere novelty act, something transient which would end with the primaries, so it was all just taken as par for the course and everyone assumed he would disappear from the race soon. But when he won the nomination, our press had no idea how to handle it. They lazily tried to deal with it by hoping to refashion him as a normal Republican candidate, especially when he was in bad, bad shape in July and August - they saw the ratings potential dissipate as Hillary began to dominate, so they tried to give him a dozen chances to pivot and run a 'normal' campaign. But they realized too late that he couldn't and wouldn't be remade into a normal candidate. They continued trying to desperately pursue this same old both-sides false equivalence narrative with the two candidates until the last possible moment - namely mid-late September. When the worm turned it turned hard, and that's where he has been since, as a rolling disaster. Everyone knows it, he is cratering and Hillary is fully in control. I think the debate, Alicia Machado, the tax leak, this tape - those are the things that have really destroyed Trump once and for all. There will be no coming back and there will likely be more scandals, but those are the things that officially sealed him off, after a year of too many of us shrugging at it because we thought he'd never get this close. And that happened because of the blinkered, myopic GOP.

The difference is that it's all real now. This isn't the primaries, it isn't 2015, it isn't even the brief respite the media tried to give him in early September. This is the general, and over the last month he's completely cratered. He's down in every poll, including Breitbart. Hillary's wide lead has reopened. He's pulling out of swing states. The only way it could have been worse is to have video of him actually assaulting someone. This is not 'lucking out' just because that didn't happen - this is an unmitigated disaster.