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" Yesterday, Trump arguably hit his lowest of lows after the Washington Post published a leaked video featuring Trump essentially condoning sexual assault. If were wondering if that would elicit an actual, genuine apology from Trump, the answer is a resounding hell no. Wearing his typical scowl, Trump sat inside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in his video statement that he tweeted with the astute caption &amp;quot;Here is my statement.&amp;quot;      Here is my statement. pic.twitter.com/WAZiGoQqMQ \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2016    &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never said I&amp;#039;m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone I&amp;#039;m not,&amp;quot; he said in the video. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don&amp;#039;t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.&amp;quot; As NBC notes, this is the first time Trump has expressed regret &amp;quot;for a specific statement or action&amp;quot;\u2014but he wasted no time tainting his apology. After talking about how his travels have &amp;quot;changed&amp;quot; him, he said that focusing on his comments is &amp;quot;nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we&amp;#039;re facing today,&amp;quot; as if a presidential candidate endorsing sexual assault isn&amp;#039;t an important issue. He then turned it all into an attack on Hillary, naturally: &amp;quot;Hillary Clinton and her kind have run our country into the ground. I&amp;#039;ve said some foolish things, but there&amp;#039;s a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed, and intimidated his victims.&amp;quot; Well, Trump did say he&amp;#039;s never pretended to be someone he&amp;#039;s not\u2014and it wouldn&amp;#039;t be a true Trump statement if he didn&amp;#039;t try to turn it around and point the finger at Crooked Hillary, right? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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