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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJonah Goldberg - Trump's Best Option for Avoiding Impeachment: An Apology
Do you agree? Personally I don't.
Link if you're interested
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)Surrendor Dorothy.
CanonRay
(14,112 posts)Bet he's never apologized in his life
Jose Garcia
(2,601 posts)CanonRay
(14,112 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)He thinks Trump would consider apologizing, and he thinks that an apology will fix things.
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)... with another President, it might work. Crooked Donald is different... he can't sincerely apologize. Even worse, he can't stop being a criminal. He will go on breaking laws - he won't stop. I'm surprised Jonah has not come to this/my conclusion.
kozar
(2,126 posts)One fourth of what he did,,we would not be able to apologize and walk away. Much less keep our job. Screw that noise!! It would just be another lie.
Koz
unblock
(52,309 posts)of course, he could make a meaningless, limited, qualified, non-apology apology.
but i highly doubt he'll do even that.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)First Ivanka is comparing Daddy to Thomas Jefferson, now the Doughy Pantload pops up to suggest that Donald Trump could apologize.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)before he would ever apologize for anything.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Optimal time: at the bottom of the escalator, followed by withdrawing.
Kid Berwyn
(14,951 posts)FTR: Jonah Goldberg is a piece of, uh, work.
LA Times Fires Longtime Progressive Columnist Robert Scheer
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/14/la_times_fires_longtime_progressive_columnist
DBoon
(22,395 posts)nt
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And cynical. No doubt the kind determined to stay loyal would insist it was all that was needed.
Trump could maybe bring together stadiums full of trumpsters to apologize for/with him in an orgy of laughing, lying loyalty chants. "I apologiiize! I apologiiiize! I apologiize...!"
Of course, he'd still be depraved and dangerously unfit, his crimes would still be his crimes, and their victims would be added to every day.
Unbelievable.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Forget it.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)You have about as much chance of that happening as you do Trump finding a Genie in a bottle that can grant him a wish to make it go away. So, it's a moot point.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)This is so true in many situations.
This is one of them.
His Base will collapse. And the 51% of America that is NOT on his side will use that against him.
Apology would be nice, but his lawyers wouldn't allow it.
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)And an apology doesn't get you out of the consequences.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)Man I miss Bartcop
TrishaJ
(798 posts)NOW.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)But it has nothing to do with reality or his crimes. F that.
spanone
(135,862 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)We are way past that point.
First of all, a narcissist like him could never apologize for anything. And secondly, even if they could, it would not be sincere. Thirdly, even if he did get down on his knees and sincerely apologized for everything and begged for our forgiveness, it still wouldn't be enough. There is no redemption for this man. He is beyond hope.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)day.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)or did the road leading into the Potala in Tibet -- in winter. Nope. Traitor Trump must go to prison for life and get a prison hair cut every 2 weeks.
crickets
(25,982 posts)eta: Obviously, Trump is way, way past any chance for apologies - it's laughable to expect him to apologize in any case.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Luciferous
(6,084 posts)iamateacher
(1,089 posts)He asked Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, then told a journalist he would do it again, and then asked Ukraine to interfere, then admitted it, then asked China to interfere. I sense a pattern here..duh.
Reminds me of some few children I used to teach. My mantra..."The rules that apply to everyone else, also apply to you."
You know, I think they have the diagnosis wrong. He has an oppositional defiant disorder.
Sneederbunk
(14,298 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,160 posts)where you apologize and promise not to do it again.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Its resignation
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)That is where he belongs. Apology would not be accepted.
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)now fuck off eat shit and die.