Boggling that he rolled over, given how rare it is for such apologies to do anything other than cement the public opinion of guilt and get the speaker flogged o

Boggling that he rolled over, given how rare it is for such apologies to do anything other than cement the public opinion of guilt and get the speaker flogged out even with the apology. We'd all want to face the firing squad with a cigarette and our heads held high rather than begging for our lives, but groveling is by far the empirically more common outcome. I wonder if he regrets the apologies more or the original statements.