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Trump and Biden need to deliver their dueling mea culpas together

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Everyone should be outraged at Democrats and Republicans for the damage they've done to the country during the last year.

But right now, as the country is split into two angry red and blue camps, everyone should be even madder at the way President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden have been behaving.

As the two leaders of a nation of 331 million, they are supposed to be leading. But instead they are still fighting like little kids in a schoolyard.

The inauguration isn't until Wednesday. But Trump and Biden still have time to do something important for the good of the country.

President Trump can do what Ronald Reagan did during his greatest political crisis, Iran-Contra.

My father was spending so much time defending himself over what he did or did not do in that scandal that he couldn't get anything else done. He was even threatened with impeachment.

 

So what he finally did was suck it up, give an address to the country and accept responsibility. Basically, he said, "It happened on my watch. I'm guilty and I'm sorry."

Then he went back to work on ending the Cold War.

Trump and Biden should go before the country - together, from the White House - to deliver their dueling mea culpas.

President Trump should say something like, "The violent and shameful attack on the U.S. Capitol last week by my supporters was abhorrent.

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