excused

You’d be excused for forgetting that both men were still running for the U.S.

The sobbing soldier had been excused from combat for a few days so he could attend Tworetzky’s trip and talk about his friend to the cohort of 37 visitors.

He smiled, greeted Carrillo, excused himself and drove off.

As The Atlantic’s Tim Young notes, “Today’s Republican leaders are cowards, and some are even worse: They are complicit, as Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin proved… At least cowards run away…. Youngkin, however, smiled and dissembled and excused Trump’s hideousness with a kind of folksy shamelessness that made cowardice seem noble by comparison.”

Defensive lineman Kobie Turner did not practice because of an excused absence, a team official said.