{"id":10229,"date":"2015-07-20T00:32:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T00:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2015-07-20T00:32:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T00:32:01","slug":"trump-wont-apologize-shocking-im-tellin-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10229","title":{"rendered":"Trump won’t apologize? Shocking, I’m tellin’ ya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump says he won’t apologize for denigrating John McCain’s service during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

He won’t say he’s sorry for telling an audience in Iowa that McCain’s status as a war hero is “only because he was captured. I prefer people who weren’t captured.”<\/p>\n

He won’t take back the statement that has offended other military veterans — not to mention those who also were captured by enemy forces and subjected to torture, not just in Vietnam but in all wars dating back to World War II.<\/p>\n

This digging in by Trump perhaps might the most unsurprising <\/em>aspect of the firestorm that has erupted on the 2016 presidential campaign trail.<\/p>\n

You see, to apologize means that the person doing the apologizing needs to feel shame for what he or she said.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is shameless to the max. His sole purpose in making outrageous statements is to get people talking about him.<\/p>\n

I consider Trump to be a political buffoon and an embarrassment to the Republican Party, whose presidential nomination he’s seeking.<\/p>\n

However, I do not think he’s a stupid man. I am quite certain he knows precisely what he’s saying and he expects precisely the reaction he gets when he says these things.<\/p>\n

Should he take back what he said about Sen. McCain — the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee? Of course he should.<\/p>\n

First, though, he’s got to reveal some shame.<\/p>\n

I do not expect him to do that. Neither should anyone else.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump says he won’t apologize for denigrating John McCain’s service during the Vietnam War. He won’t say he’s sorry for telling an audience in Iowa that McCain’s status as a war hero is “only because he was captured. I prefer people who weren’t captured.” He won’t take back the statement that has offended other … Continue reading Trump won’t apologize? Shocking, I’m tellin’ ya<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[73,1424,1944,2546],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-campaign","tag-john-mccain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}