Trump says he ‘made the mistake’ of ‘studying’ GOP senator’s ‘anatomy’

President Trump on Tuesday quipped that he made “the mistake” of “studying” Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) “anatomy,” after his remarks about the senator’s backside made headlines last week.

“So I’m studying him, and I made the mistake of saying that I started off by studying his a–,” Trump told supporters during a rally in Lubbock, Texas, for Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R). “I just want to say. And then I looked at his feet and they were massive. Then I looked at his hand. ‘See these hands,’ he said.”

The president added that Husted’s hands were “fine” but that his fingers were “like sausages” and that his own hand hurt from shaking the senator’s.

“It was like hitting steel,” he continued, with rally attendees laughing. “But I made the mistake of studying his anatomy and explaining it to the audience, and the audience loved it.”

He acknowledged the press around his remarks, saying........

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