excuses

“After this theft of government funds, he repeatedly lied to the agents about the money and made excuses for why it was taking so long to receive the wire transfers for the full $200,000.”

However, a former Biden aide told Axios, another political news outlet, that Harris was making excuses.

Judge Lewis J. Liman ordered Giuliani to turn over assets after Giuliani blew an October 29 deadline, calling the former mayor's excuses for failing to turn them over "farcical."

But to pin the return of Trump so heavily on them excuses other guilty actors.

Worse than any of that was that he’d also been a public critic of Donald Trump, calling Trump “reprehensible” and an “idiot” and writing that Christians who made excuses for the comments caught on the Access Hollywood tape needed God’s forgiveness.