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Donald Trump's campaign (mis)manager, Paul Manafort, went on Good Morning America Thursday to do his increasingly thankless and futile job—which apparently involves subscribing to the idea of time travel. Reporter Sopan Deb highlights this exchange, when ABC pressed Manafort on why Trump won't just apologize to the Khan Family.
ABC: He's hoping to move on without an apology.
MANAFORT: Well, he's expressed his sympathy. He's expressed his support for what the family is going through. I mean, it's like the same thing we're caught up in—what's the difference between "I support you" and "I endorse you"? We quibble over the words and but the sentiments are there and the sentiments about what he feels towards that family and what they've went through he expressed. I mean just because he doesn't say the words everybody wants—he said he's sorry for what they've gone through and he keeps going back to the main issue and the main issue isn't this family, it's the main issue that caused the suffering of this family which is the war in the middle east, the destabilization and the policies of Obama and Clinton that caused them.
The main issue revolves around the Trump campaign suggesting that Khizr Khan is a terrorist, but okay, then. We’ll go with this. They’re doubling down on the storyline, first voiced by spokesperson Katrina Pierson, that somehow in 2004 Illinois state senator and U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama teamed up with the junior senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, to create the middle east policy that resulted in Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan's death.
Of all the magical thinking that the Trump crew has engaged in—like that Donald Trump is qualified to be president—this has to be the most absurd. So far.