The Apology that wasn't, and what it means for the coming days.

Donald Trump apologized, in a way, for his crude remarks about women - although not for groping them. Then he immediately turned to attacking Bill Clinton.

I noticed that when Trump gets embarrassed, by the Khan's, by Miss Universe, his reflex is to get very aggressive, and very ugly. This has not served him well. His poll numbers went into a tailspin after the DNC convention. Kellyanne Conway righted the ship. Then we got a six day meltdown after the first debate.

So, anticipate a period of period of a very angry, unhinged Trump. The Debate should be thoroughly awful.  Maybe Clinton should just let him talk the full 90 minutes.

Trump always finds a way to recover. But, in an election that seems to have been going on forever, suddenly election day is very close at hand. If Trump falls off the wagon and goes on a five day Crazy Donald bender, I just don't think that there will be time for him to recover.
And our long national nightmare will end.
God willing.

Donald Trump’s Apology That Wasn’t

For hours on Friday night, the political world waited for the rarest of expressions from Donald J. Trump — a heartfelt apology.

What viewers got was anything but.

During a 90-second videotaped appearance, Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, offered a strikingly brief articulation of regret for a decade-old audiotape in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitals and said he could have his way with women because of his fame.

But his real message, which appeared early Saturday, was one of defiance. He described the controversy that upended the Republican Party for most of Friday as a mere “distraction,” and said that his vulgar remarks captured on the tape were nothing compared with the way Bill and Hillary Clinton had mistreated women.

If anything, Mr. Trump’s videotaped statement was a truncated version of a speech that he had given countless times. And it did not reflect the several hours of conference calls and strategy meetings among his top aides, who were at first stunned and then nearly paralyzed by the revelation of the tape, which they worried would be fatal to his White House hopes.

“That took 10 hours?” an incredulous Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist, asked on CNN immediately after the statement.


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