Corey Lewandowski, campaign manager for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, said Sunday that he would speak with the reporter whose arm he grabbed at a campaign event, but that it was “unrealistic” for him to apologize.
“I’d be happy to have a conversation with her. But to apologize to someone I’ve never spoken to and candidly don’t even remembering having any interaction with is something that is a little unrealistic right now,” Lewandowski said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I have said and would be happy to say again, this is a person I have never spoken to, but I’d be happy to have that conversation if we can put this thing behind us.”
Police in Jupiter, Florida, charged Lewandowski with a misdemeanor battery charge after former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields filed a complaint against him with the police department. Lewandowski denied any wrongdoing and was repeatedly defended by Trump. A spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign went so far as to insist that Lewandowski wouldn’t be fired over the incident.
Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg said in the news conference last week that there was “no reasonable doubt” Lewandowski grabbed Fields’ arm, but that there wasn’t a “good faith basis” to move forward with a case against him.
Is there any normal, sane adult who hasn’t apologized - more in the sense of “I’m sorry that happened” than in the sense of “I’m sorry. It’s my fault” - when someone bumps into them? Is a formal introduction and exchange of business cards now required before saying “Excuse me”?
He’s very like his boss—if he never spoke to her, never met her, then how could he have roughly grabbed her? Except he doesn’t phrase it that way because it only works as bullshit if you suggest a thing indirectly without saying it explicitly. It’s exactly like when Trump kept repeating he’d never met David Duke as a way of suggesting, without saying explicitly, that he had no idea who he was or what his history and viewpoints were. Pure weapons-grade bullshit.
That’s the trouble with bullshitting—you have to keep it up no matter how outrageously obvious the pretending has become.
He’s the kind of person who thinks issuing an apology is a sign of weakness…of being emasculated. And, most especially, to a female.
He will have wished he’d apologized though, after the civil suit
What a fucking sociopath.
‘apologies are a sign of weakness’
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