The Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling offered a total and remorseful apology for his racist comments today, telling reporters, Once I saw that Donald Trump was defending me, I knew I had done something horribly wrong. Sterling acknowledged that he had turned a blind eye to a mountain of criticism from basketball luminaries and national leaders, but said that seeing Trump defend him on Fox News on Monday had left him shaken. Look, I know Im not perfect, he said. But when Donald Trump takes your side, you have to take a long, hard look in the mirror and ask yourself, Have I become some kind of monster? 