Suddenly everybody in America has turned into Captain Renault, the Claude Raines character in Casablanca — they’re “shocked, shocked” to find out that Donald Trump spoke in crude sexual terms about women.

The incident was recorded eleven years ago at the NBC Studios in Burbank, California.

The Donald — who has an unfortunate proclivity for boasting about his sexual prowess — was talking off the record and not for attribution to a wise guy named Billy Bush, who worked for a tabloid TV show called Access Hollywood.

We are supposed to believe that the Clinton campaign lucked out when this ancient tape, which was gathering dust in the NBC vault, was mysteriously found by some anonymous producer and leaked to the Washington Post on the eve of Sunday’s town hall presidential debate.

Trump has apologized for his crude remarks — and he should have.

But I have two questions for the mainstream media and the holier-than-thou politicians:

1. Why do you let Hillary Clinton off the hook when I’ve reported in my new bestselling book, Guilty As Sin, that Hillary swears like a drunken sailor and uses far worse language than Donald?

2. Why do you let Bill Clinton off the hook when I’ve reported in Guilty As Sin that Bill gets foot massages from twenty-something female interns at the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library?

Perish the thought that the media and the political establishment apply a double standard to Trump and the Clintons.

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