{"id":41034,"date":"2020-02-02T03:10:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41034"},"modified":"2020-02-02T03:10:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T03:10:46","slug":"will-there-be-any-expression-of-regret-hah-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41034","title":{"rendered":"Will there be any expression of regret? Hah! Hardly!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachment%20%23Senatetrial%20%23Ukraine&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/donald-and-melania.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41035\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/donald-and-melania-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/donald-and-melania-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/donald-and-melania-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/donald-and-melania.png 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the day the U.S. Senate acquitted him in an impeachment trial in 1999, President Bill Clinton expressed regret.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they imposed on the Congress and on the American people,&#8221;<\/em> the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is likely to be acquitted next week when the Senate polls its members on the two counts for which the House of Representatives impeached him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/while-stained-in-history-trump-will-emerge-from-trial-triumphant-and-unshackled\/ar-BBZysIY?ocid=spartanntp\">Some of the Republicans<\/a> who have stood with him now say that Trump did solicit foreign government help. They opposed his impeachment and they will vote to acquit him. Bill Clinton&#8217;s foes in the House and Senate expressed disdain, disgust and disappointment over what he did: lying to a grand jury about the affair he had with the White House intern.<\/p>\n<p>For that, Clinton expressed regret.<\/p>\n<p>Do not hold your breath waiting for a similar expression from Donald Trump. Oh, no. He&#8217;ll prance and preen and declare it was all a witch hunt, a hoax, a vendetta, a coup, an attempt to negate the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>We likely will get to witness in real time a lesson in political boorishness \u2026 as if we could expect any better from the current president of the United States.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachment%20%23Senatetrial%20%23Ukraine&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day the U.S. Senate acquitted him in an impeachment trial in 1999, President Bill Clinton expressed regret. &#8220;I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they imposed on the Congress and on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will there be any expression of regret? Hah! 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