Howard Stern says he won’t ‘betray’ Donald Trump by replaying old interviews

The US radio star said he won’t replay any old interviews with the Republican presidential candidate after the latest “grab them by the p***y” scandal.

The billionaire businessman has appeared on his friend’s controversial show numerous times, discussing his past infidelities, women who are “great in bed” andhis desire for Princess Diana.

Now reporters claim to have discovered damning interviews Trump did on Stern’s show between 2002 to 2013, and want them to be released.

“Why don’t I play all the tapes?” Stern said on his show on Monday morning. “I have to tell you why: I feel Donald Trump did the show in an effort to be entertaining and have fun with us and I feel like it would be a betrayal to any of our guests if I sat there and played them now where people are attacking him.”

Stern, a Hillary Clinton supporter, said the interviews weren’t conducted to “f**k someone over.”

“We were having a good time. I fully knew what I was doing when I interviewed Trump. I knew I had a guy who loved to talk about sex,” he said. “I had a guy who loved to evaluate women on a scale of one to 10. These are avenues I went down because I knew it would entertain the audience.”

Trump on The Howard Stern Show

“But this idea of ‘locker room talk’ ... all the times I’ve been around guys — and believe me when I’m around guys 85 per cent of the times you’re talking about p***y but I have never been in the room when someone has said ‘grab them by the p***y,” said Stern, repeating Trump’s boast from the bus.

“No one’s ever advocated going that step where you get a little bit, ‘hey I’m going to invade someone’s space.’ ... A lot of [locker room banter is] real kind of desperate talk. The reason it’s in a locker room is because no one’s proud of it.”