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WASHINGTON — If Donald Trump hadn’t been caught red-handed he likely would have kept on cheating on his first wife, he admitted in a 1994 interview obtained by the Daily News.
“Well it’s interesting, because it’s possible that you know, maybe it would still be going on. I’m not sure” he said in an interview with ABC Primetime Live that aired in 1994 when the interviewer asked him if he would have “confronted that situation” of the affair.
“My life was so great in so many ways. The business was so great… a beautiful girlfriend, a beautiful wife, a beautiful everything. Life was just a bowl of cherries,” he says later in the interview.
The comments, unnoticed since he became a presidential candidate until now, are the latest example of Trump’s steadfast refusal to show any guilt or remorse for his marital infidelities and his seeming view that women were disposable. It also suggests the only reason Trump went through a divorce with his first wife, Ivana, was because his years-long affair with Marla Maples became public.
Earlier in the interview, Trump joked about the tense confrontation between Ivana and Marla on the ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado, where all three were vacationing.
The comments indicate that even in that moment where his wife and mistress met for the first time, he was much more concerned about how the public confrontation would impact him than what either of the women was going through as a result of his actions.
“I was standing there like an idiot and Marla and Ivana were here, and there wasn’t shouting but you could obviously see there was some friction,” he said. “And a man who was standing right next to me who weighed about 350 pounds and wasn’t a very attractive guy said to me ‘It could be worse, Donald, I’ve been in Aspen for 20 years and I’ve never had a date.’ I’ll never forget the statement, and it sort of lightened it up for me. I’m saying you know, I guess it could be worse.”
Trump’s repeated sexism and misogyny has badly damaged his presidential campaign, with the latest flare-up Friday over a 2005 hot mic incident in which Trump lewdly discussed women and bragged that because he was famous, he could force himself on them and get away with it, has Republicans across the party jumping ship and withdrawing their endorsements.
The newly unearthed 1994 video, flagged by a Democratic source for the Daily News, and countless other data points through Trump’s braggadocious career, indicate that Trump’s cavalier attitude towards infidelity and dismissive view of women in general runs deep, even when it involves the mothers of his children.