{"id":1650802,"date":"2022-09-21T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1650802"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:59:24","slug":"country-star-trace-adkins-wont-back-down-from-supporting-trump-i-aint-asking-forgiveness-for-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/country-star-trace-adkins-wont-back-down-from-supporting-trump-i-aint-asking-forgiveness-for-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Star Trace Adkins Won\u2019t Back Down From Supporting Trump: \u201cI Ain\u2019t Asking Forgiveness for S**t\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcountry-star-trace-adkins-wont-back-down-from-supporting-trump-i-aint-asking-forgiveness-for-st%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1650802&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Country music star Trace Adkins refused to shy away from his support for former President Donald Trump in a segment on HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time With Bill Maher,\u201d saying he isn\u2019t \u201casking forgiveness for sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adkins\u2019 comments came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/country-music-star-trace-adkins-tells-bill-maher-i-aint-asking-forgiveness-for-sht-over-his-support-of-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during a segment<\/a> with him, Maher, journalist Julia Ioffe, and former Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham.<\/p>\n<p>Maher, the host, suggested America needs to have a diversity of opinions rather than taking sides. Meacham agreed but jabbed Trump supporters about accepting the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think when you launch an attack on the Capitol. And you undermine the one thing we\u2019ve got that enables this other experiment to go on and I\u2019m not saying the other side\u2019s perfect,\u201d Meacham said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think a lot of Republicans, see if you agree with this, I think a lot of Republicans who don\u2019t like Trump want forgiveness, but they don\u2019t wanna repent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher then turned to Adkins, a supporter of the former President and two-time guest on his reality TV show \u201cCelebrity Apprentice,\u201d and said: \u201cYeah. Well, we don\u2019t have to answer that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without missing a beat, Adkins replied, \u201cI ain\u2019t asking forgiveness for sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n[embedded content]\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/country-singer-trace-adkins-supports-our-troops-in-a-big-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Country Singer Trace Adkins Supports Our Troops in a BIG WAY!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Trace Adkins on His Support of Trump: \u2018I Ain\u2019t Asking Forgiveness For Sh*t\u2019<\/h3>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trace Adkins\u2019 line about not asking for forgiveness when it comes to being a Trump supporter earned laughter and applause from a normally left-leaning crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Maher responded to his comment by saying, \u201cRight and you shouldn\u2019t have to. You didn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which applies to nearly 100% of all supporters of the Republican frontrunner for 2024. They didn\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, you have President Joe Biden out here smearing every single one of them with a broad brush insisting they are a \u201cthreat to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden is now calling people who question election results a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he and his own party have been doing it for years.<\/p>\n<p>Dems hope nobody sees these clips.<\/p>\n<p>RT this video to expose them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lIHJG6NzJM\">pic.twitter.com\/lIHJG6NzJM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveScalise\/status\/1566826373871767552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/joe-biden-melts-down-again-claims-extreme-republicans-a-threat-to-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden Melts Down Again, Claims \u2018Extreme\u2019 Republicans a \u2018Threat to Democracy\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Bill Maher Challenges Adkins to Say Who Won the Election<\/h3>\n<p>After slapping down Meacham\u2019s ridiculous demand that Trump supporters \u2018repent,\u2019 Trace Adkins noted that his support for Trump is \u201cnot personal \u2014 it\u2019s policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meacham, it should be noted, is an occasional speechwriter for Joe Biden and appeared on MSNBC as a paid contributor to compliment the President\u2019s \u201cpoetic\u201d acceptance speech without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/09\/us\/politics\/jon-meacham-biden-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disclosing the fact<\/a> that he helped write it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the segment, Maher challenged the country star, who has had over 20 singles reach the Billboard country music charts, to clearly answer the question of who won the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho won the last election?\u201d Maher asked, joking that he thought he could sneak it in.<\/p>\n<p>Adkins replied, \u201cJoe Biden won the last election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you think I was going to say?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI think a lot of Republicans who don\u2019t like Trump want forgiveness but they don\u2019t want to repent.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmeacham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jmeacham<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealTimers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealTimers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cq0N5rbINW\">https:\/\/t.co\/cq0N5rbINW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Hahn (@georgehahn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/georgehahn\/status\/1571196637216645121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maher then pivoted and pointed out how Biden\u2019s divisive rhetoric has been a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought Joe Biden made a bit of a mistake in the speech he made a couple of weeks ago when he talked about MAGA nation,\u201d Maher opined, mostly souring on his delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said this for years. You can hate Trump. You can hate the people who like him or voted for him. It doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re all crazy,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re all racist, doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re all bad people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bill Maher torn on Biden\u2019s anti-MAGA speech: I like that he gave it, \u2018but the way he did it? Not good\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RBRfGQqVwB\">https:\/\/t.co\/RBRfGQqVwB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1568567484025896961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in the show, Adkins admitted that appearing on Trump\u2019s \u201cCelebrity Apprentice\u201d was an extremely stressful experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the most stressful thing I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d Adkins told Maher, saying it was so because he wanted to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go on there and try to win, which I wanted to win for my charities,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Adkins was runner-up on the show in 2008 and won in 2013.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now is the time to support and share the sources you trust.<\/strong><br \/>The Political Insider ranks #3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/political_blogs\/\">Feedspot\u2019s<\/a> \u201c100 Best Political Blogs and Websites.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music star Trace Adkins refused to shy away from his support for former President Donald Trump in a segment on HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time With Bill Maher,\u201d saying he isn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1650804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1650804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}