GOP strategist: Trump has ‘no shame’

A top Republican strategist says in a new interview that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has no shame.

“Almost every person is born with some sort of shame. Donald Trump was not,” Terry Sullivan, the former campaign manager for Marco Rubio’s failed presidential bid, said during an interview this week with the Washington Examiner’s “Examining Politics” podcast.

{mosads}”He really is in politics, in an ironic twist of fate, the continuation of Bill Clinton. When, before that, if a politician got caught doing something — that was it. They were so embarrassed, they apologized, it was the mea culpa — ‘I’m so sorry, please forgive me’ — and sometimes that would work.” 

But Sullivan said that was changed by the way Clinton dealt with accusations of having an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

“Once we hit Bill Clinton, with the Monica Lewinsky scandal — forget what it was about — the guy lied, and he just tripled down on it and he continued to lie,” Sullivan said. 

“There was really no shame there. And, that worked for him. And so you look, ironically, at Trump, and there’s no shame. He doesn’t apologize for anything, so therefore there’s no guilt. You can’t convict somebody that doesn’t feel guilty about anything.”