the assassination order/wink -- "walking it back" is part of the wink.
trump can't "walk it back" in any meaningful sense. oh sure, he said "that would be horrible" immediately after, and in theory he could today apologize profusely (as if he's capable of that) say he's adamantly opposed to violence, doesn't want anyone to act on his poorly chosen words, etc.
the problem is, none of that actually undoes the request because distancing himself from the order is part of the whole thing. further distancing himself from the assassination request doesn't undo the assassination request; all it does is distance himself from it so that if it were to actually happen, he can say he made it clear he didn't want it to happen, yadda, yaddda, yadda.
how many hollywood scripts have we seen where the mob boss or someone makes a similar request, pining for a "problem" to "disappear", and then saying something like, "but ii wouldn't want anyone to do anything illegal"? some movies even make a joke of it, when the hitman says, "got it boss, wink, wink", then the boss tries to say, "no, i really didn't mean that", and the hitman keeps saying, "right, of course not, got it, boss, we never had this conversation, wink, wink"?
sometimes you can't get the toothpaste back into the tube. once again, trump has demonstrated that his entire political knowledge is based on being a foxnews viewer. it's bad enough when pundits and commentators talk idly about "second amendment solutions", but it's completely out of line when interviewing to be leader of the free world.
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It might be something that a Trump sympathizer would understand.
Now you have me laughing Thanks, I have been pissed all morning.
(Did you make that up just now, or is that a regional idiom that I've never heard before?)
