Robert Costa, Josh Dawsey and Philip Rucker in The Washington Post about damage control:

'Gingrich said Trump is trying to find a balance.

“Trump is good enough reading this to know you can’t have people going around the planet cutting people up,” he said. “But the U.S. almost certainly won’t go through self-flagellation like some in Congress want us to because it’s not in our self-interest.”'

Read the article here,

No self-flagellation, a beautiful euphemism for: no interest in human rights.