Donald Trump has no shame, and that’s why he was so hard to beat in the Republican primary.
That was the assessment of Terry Sullivan, the campaign manager for Marco Rubio’s presidential bid. The Florida senator was one of the final four candidates in the race, but dropped out March 15 after Trump trounced him in his home-state primary. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination on May 3.
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“The difference is, ‘shame.’ Almost every person is born with some sort of shame. Donald Trump is not. 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,” Sullivan said, during an interview with the Washington Examiner’s “Examining Politics” podcast.
“Once we hit [President] 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 continued. “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.”
Sullivan and fellow-Rubio campaign veterans Alex Conant and Will Holley sat down with “Examining Politics” to discuss their new firm, Firehouse Strategies, what they learned on the campaign trail these past months and how they plan to apply what they learned going forward.
