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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Aug 20, 2016, 02:23 PM Aug 2016

Trump’s ‘apology’ sounds like a non-apology

Donald Trump is still figuring out the art of the non-apology apology.

After more than a year of refusing to budge as he moved from one firestorm to the next, the Republican nominee surprised everyone Thursday night by declaring that he lives with some “regret.”

But while he expressed remorse for the first time since getting into the presidential race 14 months ago, he steered clear of the S-word: “sorry.”

Parsing the speech, which was read from a teleprompter, veteran campaign strategists and historians noted that Trump sounded much more like a conventional politician than he has all year. In their view, he’s following a path of rhetorical evasion that has been well trod by candidates in both parties.

Linguists and relationship experts, meanwhile, said Trump’s comments were ineffective and that his words cannot accurately be described as an “apology.” In fact, the GOP nominee did not specify exactly who or what he was talking about. The targets over the course of his campaign are plentiful, including the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Megyn Kelly, New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, Mexicans and Muslims.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-expresses-some-regret-for-campaign-behavior/2016/08/19/9fba8498-6644-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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Trump’s ‘apology’ sounds like a non-apology (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2016 OP
They lack plausible believability. nt Xipe Totec Aug 2016 #1
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