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I stopped giving a crap about Billy Bush days ago, but media outlets are still running breathless stories about his “fight” to keep his job with NBC following the grab-them-by-the-p-ssy tape being released one week ago. NBC has, for now, merely suspended Bush and it doesn’t even feel like NBC is going through an internal audit or an in-house investigation or anything. Bush is just suspended and sources claim that people are quietly negotiating his formal exit from Today.

Bush did hire a major LA lawyer named Marshall Grossman this week, and some sites have claimed that Grossman is merely negotiating Bush’s exit package, but some claim that Grossman is actually going to fight for Bush to keep his job. Grossman told Page Six that Bush was merely “doing his job” on the tape and that Bush had “fully adhered” to the “morals and standards of NBC.” Which… no. And then this:

Billy Bush has hired prominent lawyer Marshall Grossman amid his exit from NBC. Grossman told Us Weekly on Thursday, October 13, that the TV host, 44, was just doing his job when he had a lewd discussion with Donald Trump while he was a host at Access Hollywood.

“If Billy had been passive or responded ‘Shut the f–k up’ to Trump, Billy would have been out of a job the next day,” Grossman told Us.

[From Us Weekly]

“Billy would have been out of a job the next day.” What do you think? I say no. Donald Trump wasn’t Billy Bush’s boss and if Billy Bush had stopped Trump’s obscene diatribe with a simple, “Hey, that’s not cool,” I don’t think Bush would have been fired for that. I don’t even believe that Trump would have stopped talking if Bush had stopped engaging.

I don’t believe Bush was “doing his job” by egging on Trump, by giggling delightly at Trump’s misogyny, or by hug-pimping an actress after their wretched conversation. But I will say one thing: Bush’s side of things proves that THEY WERE AT WORK. This isn’t locker room talk. They were both working and they both provided a hostile work environment. This is like a textbook example of sexual harassment in the workplace for BOTH men.

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