Merriam-Webster defines “apology” thusly:
1) An admission of error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret
They define “regret” as well:
2) To be very sorry for
So, when President Biden’s Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton, speaking while en route to an appearance in New Hampshire on Monday, claims emphatically that the president “didn’t apologize” for referring to Laken Riley’s alleged murderer as “illegal” (which he was) but that the president “used a different word” – that word being “regret” – you know she either doesn’t understand English or she’s desperately running cover.
The White House insisted President Biden ‘did not apologize’ for using the term ‘illegal’ to describe the alleged killer of Laken Riley, as the blowback from a tense exchange in his State of the Union speech last week continues.
As the White House put it, Biden ‘used a different word’ when he…
