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The Washington Post

US Republican nominee Donald Trump has responded to Vice President Joe Biden’s remark that he would like to “take him behind the gym” if they were in high school, saying he would welcome such a confrontation.
“He wants to bring me to the back of the barn. Ohhhhhh,” Trump said with mock fear, botching Biden’s quote.
“Some things in life you can really love doing.”
At a recent campaign stop for Hillary Clinton, Biden strongly criticised Trump’s recently revealed remarks on a 2005 hot microphone, in which he bragged about forcing himself on women sexually.
“What he said he did and does is a textbook definition of sexual assault,” Biden said.



The vice president said reporters routinely ask him whether he wishes he had the chance to debate Trump.
“No, I wish we were in high school. I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish,” Biden said.
Trump, speaking at a rally here, said: “I’d love that.” He called Biden “Mr. Tough Guy.”
“You know when he’s Mr. Tough Guy? When he’s standing behind a microphone by himself,” said Trump.
Trump’s rally in Tallahassee was the final stop of a three-day blitz through Florida, a state vital to his White House hopes.

As for the threat to take Trump behind the gym, Biden averred that he was just kidding — kind of.
“Can you imagine a guy in a locker room talking that way, and your sister’s out there watching the game? Not a joke,” he said, referring to Trump shrugging off a 2005 conversation caught on an open microphone in which he boasted of kissing women uninvited and grabbing their genitals.
“If I were in high school — I want to make it clear. I understand what assault is. I’m not in high school,” Biden said, and the crowd laughed.
“I used to have a temper in high school.”
Additional reporting by Tribune News Service


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