Glenn Beck posts emotional regrets from 2016 coupled with hope for the future

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck took to Facebook and Twitter to apologize to President Trump’s family for cruel things he said about candidate Trump in 2016. It was a short but powerful statement from the founder of The Blaze and former Fox News host.

I am feeling so humbled this week. I feel truly horrible for the things I said and believed in 2016 about Donald J. Trump.

I believed the worst politically, which he proved me wrong at almost every turn. In the most dramatic cases (life/Israel/China/authoritarian).

I expected Trump to take control federally at the first opportunity. Here we are in a massive crisis. Bush ‘violated the free market to save the free market.’ Trump could have violated federalism to ‘save federalism’ yet he has stood firm through COVID.

But let me cut to the chase. I believed he actually didn’t care about people. When Trump called me after my fathers death, I assigned the motive to politics – AND SAID SO. What haunts me this week is how my words must have hit his children. How did I miss, the sharpness of my ‘judgement’ without consideration of family. Me? A guy who has lived it from his side.

I wanted to end my interview with Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. this week w/ a personal apology, who had spent 20 minutes with me as if we were old friends. I didn’t want to embarrass myself in the end and failed to do the right thing again.

I don’t regret my doubts or expressing my concern in ’16, but the fact that I missed his humanity and was blind to his family. I said at the time, ‘I hope I am wrong and will be the first to admit it.’

I did. On-air and personally to the president himself.

But it was all about politics. I knew he loved his children and they him. What I failed to see, is the reason I think they love him.

Donald Trump is a loud New Yorker with a private heart.

It takes a humble and self-aware heart to go public with contrition at this level. Glenn Beck’s apology goes a long way as an example of not just how skeptics should feel about President Trump, but how we should act as a society.

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