“We’ve got a guy in the White House who is unfit, completely unfit to be president, and it stuns me that nobody stepped up,” the former congressman said
. Walsh said he has some regrets. “I said some ugly things about President Obama that I regret. And it’s difficult. I think that helped create Trump. And I feel responsible for that,” Walsh said.
It’s clear that Walsh knows he needs to do a mea culpa about his past statements in order to stand apart from Trump. But it’s hard to see how he can accomplish that, as Stephanopoulos then followed up by reading some of Walsh’s hate- and racism-filled comments from just two years ago. Stephanopoulos said, “You did provide aid and comfort for the kind of things he was saying. You mentioned Obama. You called President Obama a Muslim, an enemy, a traitor. And you often spoke out on racial themes,” Stephanopoulos continued. “I want to show a couple of tweets that you had right there. Number one: ‘We lowered the bar for Obama. He was held to a lower standard because he was black.’”
“Then a few months after that… [you tweeted] ‘Senator Kamala Harris said something really dumb. Meh. If you’re black and a woman, you can say dumb things. Lowered bar.’ That’s kind of textbook racism and sexism,” Stephanopoulos said. Walsh then went on to say that a Trump presidency has made him “reflect” on those type of statements and that he has apologized for them. “I’m baring my soul with you right now on national TV. We have a guy in the White House who’s never apologized for anything he’s done or said. I think it’s a weakness not to apologize. I have. I helped create Trump. There’s no doubt about that, the personal, ugly politics. I regret that. And I’m sorry for that,” Walsh said.
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