His problem was that he didn't realize that, what he was effectively saying is, those people wanted NDA's because they didn't want to talk about those incidents. Thus, if that were the truth, then releasing them would only reveal that they really didn't want to talk about it. Because a release doesn't require them to talk if they don't want to, thus him resisting the idea of releasing them, seemed to say that it was he who wanted to ensure their silence. I was left wondering why he wasn't able to quickly see the problem and offer the releases, which would have defanged the situation. Instead he appeared stunned, surprised and helplessly ensnared in a web of his own deceit. Now that time has passed and his team has been able to figure out how to answer, it's too late. He appears to have had some age connected deficit, a "senior moment" if you will. It will be difficult if not impossible to come back from the image shattering blows he took after having so many carefully crafted images of himself as a glorious saviour, so widely displayed. Making his campagne appear to be all buck and no bang.
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