So You Think Billy Bush’s Career Is Over? Here Are 5 Reasons Why It’s Not (Analysis)

The disgraced “Today” host will very likely find a long — and lucrative — second act

Once the 2005 video surfaced of him giggling like a hyena while Donald Trump bragged about groping women, Bush was damaged goods at NBC’s “Today.”

[...] this must mean Bush’s career as a TV host is over, right?

How do we know this?

Because history tells us.

Were it not for the insane hothouse of the 2016 election, do you think we would spend one second fretting about how Bush and Trump behaved badly a bus years ago?

Billygate exploded because of the presidential candidacy of Trump and the intense emotions it has stirred, pro and con.

Bush has become a political football, as was proved again this week when Melania Trump accused him in a CNN interview of “egging on” her husband for “boy talk.”

Everyone loved the cuddly, red-sweatered interrogator with the funny name from the second presidential debate.

[...] old Reddit posts surfaced where he called pregnant women “beautiful human submarines” (er, what?) and talked about how much he enjoyed seeing hacked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence.

The NBC sportscaster was accused of sexual assault in 1997 by a woman and given a 12-month suspended sentence for assault and battery.

[...] if Albert’s reputation can be salvaged, surely there’s hope for Billy Bush, who hasn’t even been accused of anything that could land him near a courthouse door.

A Financial Times report this week said that Trump’s son-in-law is exploring the possibility of a Trump TV network if the GOP hopeful fails to make it to the White House.

[...] what if the budding media mogul and his new host carved out some time for more “boy talk,” this time with not just a hot mic but cameras running?