{"id":17453,"date":"2016-10-08T10:59:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T10:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17453"},"modified":"2016-10-08T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T10:59:58","slug":"trump-apologizes-for-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17453","title":{"rendered":"Trump apologizes for ‘distraction’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well, there it is.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump has issued — seemingly — the first full-blown, unqualified\u00a0apology of his life.<\/p>\n

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“I apologize” for saying and doing “foolish things,” he said.<\/p>\n

I’ve watched the video — it’s only about 90 seconds long — three times already. I do not\u00a0perceive a sense of actual shame for the things he said in 2005 about women, about his attempt to have sex with a married woman, the access his star power had in allowing him to start kissing women whenever he felt like it, his desire to grab them in their private areas.<\/p>\n

No, he called it a “distraction” from other issues. Those ghastly comments don’t reflect his true character, Trump said.<\/p>\n

Whatever.<\/p>\n

I … don’t think<\/em> it’s quite that easy to dismiss.<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s just me. My gut tells me I’m not alone.<\/p>\n

The video was obtained by a major newspaper and aired in the past 24 hours. It reveals to me the character of an individual who’s said some pretty hideous things about women over a number of years.<\/p>\n

It’s part of a pattern that the Republican presidential nominee has exhibited.<\/p>\n

I do not think this issue is going away.<\/p>\n\n

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Well, there it is. Donald J. Trump has issued — seemingly — the first full-blown, unqualified\u00a0apology of his life. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/facing-backlash-trump-apologizes-for-lewd-comments-in-%e2%80%9905-video\/ar-BBx95Fw?li=BBnb7Kz “I apologize” for saying and doing “foolish things,” he said. I’ve watched the video — it’s only about 90 seconds long — three times already. I do not\u00a0perceive a sense of actual shame for the … Continue reading Trump apologizes for ‘distraction’<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[6624,1424,4232,5191],"class_list":["post-17453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-billy-bush","tag-donald-trump","tag-sexism","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453","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=17453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17456,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17453\/revisions\/17456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}