Nigel Farage defends Donald Trump’s lewd comments about women as ‘alpha male boasting’

NIGEL Farage has defended Donald Trump following leaked tapes from 2005 where he boasted of "grabbing women by the p*****".

The interim UKIP leader, who is currently helping The Donald with his campaign, dismissed the comments as "alpha male banter".

Farage, speaking in St Louis, Missouri, where he is attending this weekend's televised presidential debate as a Trump supporter, said the comments were "ugly", but that women also make remarks they would not want to see reported.

"Look, this is alpha male boasting. It's the kind of thing, if we are being honest, that men do. They sit around and have a drink and they talk like this.

"By the way, quite a lot of women say things amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox News, or the front page of a newspaper. I'm not pretending it's good - it's ugly, it is ugly."

Labour deputy leader Tom Watson blasted the MEP saying: "Nigel Farage's description of Donald Trump's appalling remarks as 'alpha male boasting' and his insistence that talking about women in these terms is 'the kind of thing men do' betray a very troubling attitude to women.

"There are very few men who would describe demeaning women in this way as 'boasting'. Nigel Farage seems to be enjoying his new job as the UK cheerleader for Trump, but in so doing he devalues himself and his party in the minds of the decent people of our country."

Today further comments Trump made about his daughter Ivanka have also been leaked where he described her as a "voluptuous piece of a**".

Mr Farage's comments echo the initial response of Mr Trump who dismissed the obscene language on a 2005 video tape as "locker room banter" before the scale of the crisis overwhelming his presidential campaign forced him to issue an apology for the remarks.

On the tape, Mr Trump, who was newly married to his third wife, Melania, at the time, talks about making a pass at a married woman, saying: "I moved on her and I failed, I'll admit it ... I did try and f*** her.

"I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn't get there. And she was married."

Mr Trump then talks about going after women, saying: "I am automatically attracted to beautiful women. I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss, I don't even wait ... and when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."

"Grab them by the p***y. You can do anything."

Mr Farage has previously spoken at a Trump rally, and was reported to be helping the Republican candidate prepare for the second presidential debate, after Hillary Clinton was widely seen to have won the first one by a clear margin.

Mrs Trump has said she was offended by the remarks, but they did not represent the man she knew.

"The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me. This does not represent the man that I know. He has the heart and mind of a leader."

Mr Trump has insisted there is "zero chance" he will quit the race for the White House after the comments provoked a firestorm of outrage.

The remarks have seen him dubbed "the groper in chief" on social media and been branded "horrific" by Mrs Clinton, and "sickening" by the Republican speaker of the US house of representatives, Paul Ryan.