Trump’s statement of ‘regret’ is just one more lie - By Jennifer Rubin
“I don’t regret anything.”
“Sometimes in the heat of debate, and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that. And believe it or not, I regret it. I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain.”
The first statement was Donald Trump’s unscripted response this month when asked whether he regretted attacking the parents of a slain soldier. The second was read from a teleprompter yesterday after Roger Ailes, reportedly accused by multiple women of sexual harassment, and Steve Bannon, the Internet godfather of white supremacists, have begun advising Trump. Trump suggested of the latter statement that we could “believe it or not.” We choose not to believe it. But wait. Believe what? “Wrong words” is a strange formulation. Does he mean racist, misogynistic, disrespectful of a slain soldier’s parents? “Wrong words” suggests a slip of the tongue (“in the heat of the debate,” mind you). Trump’s has been a life-long pattern of deliberate statements, particularly with regard to women. (There are lists of these going back more than 20 years.)
Trump owes us a clarification of “wrong words.” And then he needs to enumerate the ones he thinks were “wrong.” Has he contacted those people to personally apologize? Has he publicly apologized to specific people?
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