Check this out as a great example.

You cannot get lower or prove you are more unfit to be president than lying about meeting with the family members of a murdered woman you are using for cheap political props. What could be more offensive? But you have to watch the actual video. Obviously Trump's handlers and speech writers know better than that. But if you watch the video you can see Trump take a mental slip just like a pathological liar; "Yeah that's the ticket." Except its something that is going to blow up in Trump's face like atomic and be instantly exposed. But Trump cannot grasp the consequences of that.

 

Huge number of DC GOP insiders 'doubt Trump’s mental acuity and physical fitness': report

Matthew Chapman
April 3, 2024 9:43AM ET




Donald Trump (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)




Republican lobbyists are privately worried that former President Donald Trump is not physically or mentally capable of serving another term in the White House.

According to Punchbowl News, "Two-thirds of Republican K Street leaders (66%) doubt Trump’s mental acuity and physical fitness to serve as president, our latest survey of downtowners found. Meanwhile, Democratic K Street leaders seem more confident in Biden’s physical and mental capacity to serve. More than half of Democratic respondents (54%) said they are unconcerned about Biden’s cognitive and overall health."

This comes amid ongoing debate in the media and among political observers about the unprecedented age of the presidential contenders for 2024: President Joe Biden is 81, while Trump is 77; either would become the oldest person ever elected president.

The age issue for Biden was redoubled earlier this year when special counsel Robert Hur controversially stated in his report declining to charge the president over classified documents discovered in his personal effects, that he could easily present himself to a jury as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

ALSO READ: MAGA congressional candidate: Michelle Obama might be a man, bring back Aunt Jemima

Hur had claimed in his summary that Biden could not remember key dates in his life, like the death of his son, although the uncut transcripts of their interview contradict this.

Meanwhile, noted Donna Baeck for Punchbowl, "Although Trump’s numerous legal charges have dominated his reelection campaign, the former president has had his gaffes, too. Back in October during a campaign speech, Trump mistakenly referred to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as the prime minister of Turkey. Earlier this year, Trump confused former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi."



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dementia-2667666879/

 

How Donald Trump is spreading a dangerous mental illness to his supporters

Thom Hartmann
April 4, 2024 8:16AM ET




Trump supporters waiting for the arrival of President Donald J. Trump on Thursday 01/30/2020 at his Keep America Great Again rally in Des Moines, Iowa. (Shutterstock.com)




Donald Trump has built a cult around himself. This is dangerous to America and dangerous to democracy.

Cults of personality in governance are broadly incompatible with democracy. They usually erupt in dictatorships where the Great Leader’s face and sayings are splashed all over public places. Think Mao’s China, Stalin’s USSR, Hitler’s Germany, Kim’s North Korea.

On a smaller scale and in a different context, we see how destructive such personality cults can be with the deaths around Jim Jones’ Jonestown, David Koresh’s Branch Davidians, and Charles Manson’s Family.

READ: Republicans don't even try to hide it anymore

This is what Donald Trump aspires to.

Back in 2000, Louise and I visited Egypt. Our guide was a retired professor of Egyptology from the largest university in the country, and as we were touring Luxor he pointed out some writing carved fifteen or so feet up a stone wall at the Temple of Karnack.

“This is from when Alexander the Great conquered Egypt,” he told us, as I recall. “It says that Alexander was the child of Amen, the god of all the gods, the one who was so great that even to this day we say his name at the end of prayers.”
“Why would Alexander make that claim?” I asked.



“Because” he said, “it’s a lot easier to seize and hold power when people think you have a connection to their idea of divinity.”

While modern Hebrew scholars may disagree about why “amen” ends our prayers, it was a lesson for me that I’ve kept in mind ever since. Beware of leaders asserting connections to divinity, particularly if they’re grasping for political or financial power.

Trump is now openly encouraging his followers to think of him as divine or, at least, divinely inspired. And this isn’t a new pitch, it’s just getting a new round of attention.

Back in 2019, when Trump actually was president, Dana Milbank noted for The Washington Post:

“On Wednesday morning, he tweeted out with approval a conspiracy theorist’s claim that Israelis view Trump ‘like he’s the King of Israel’ and ‘the second coming of God’ (a theology Jews reject). He shared the conspiracy theorist’s puzzlement that American Jews don’t view him likewise.

“Hours later, he explained why he has taken a tough trade policy against China: ‘I am the chosen one.’”
Followers of the Qanon cult and the Fox “News” cult appear to believe him. And, like those who followed the people mentioned above, it’s tearing apart families, devastating our politics, and causing deaths across the nation.

As a Cleveland newspaper noted:

“A man who authorities say killed his wife and dog and seriously wounded his daughter before being shot by police reportedly was depressed by Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential election and became fixated by online conspiracy theories such as QAnon.”

The man’s daughter who avoided being shot, Rebecca Lanis, told The Detroit News:

“It’s really so shocking but it really can happen to anybody. Right-wing extremism is not funny, and people need to watch their relatives and if they have guns, they need to hide them or report them or something because this is out of control.”
And she’s right: it is out of control.

Rational people know that messiahs don’t molest women and brag about it, don't fleece people who just want a college education with a phony school, don’t encourage racial hatred, and don’t get crowds to try to overturn democracy and kill a policeman.

But Trump isn’t after the rational people. He’s a predator, and his prey are the psychologically and emotionally vulnerable, people crushed by 40 years of Reagan’s neoliberalism, now desperate for simple answers to complex problems.

We should have known when Trump said, in a Charles Manson moment, that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and his followers would still support him.

Charismatic con men can make some people believe anything.

For example, nearly a third of all registered Republicans believe that top-level Democrats are running international child trafficking rings to torture and abuse kids before draining their blood.

Where did this modern-day variation on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion come from?

When I was young my favorite writers were Ernest Hemmingway and Hunter S. Thompson, and my favorite Thompson novel was his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Which is why a caller last year who started on a rant about Democrats harvesting “adrenochrome” from children caused me to both cut him off the air and go back to my copy of the novel to see if my memory was right.

Sure enough, there it was. Thompson was bemoaning running out of hashish and being almost out of opium when his “fat Samoan” sidekick offered an alternative:

“As your attorney,” he said, “I advise you not worry.” He nodded toward the bathroom. “Take a hit out of that little brown bottle in my shaving kit.”\


“What is it?”

“Adrenochrome,” he said. “You won’t need much. Just a little tiny taste.”
I got the bottle and dipped the head of a paper match into it.

“That’s about right,” he said. “That stuff makes pure mescaline seem like ginger beer. You’ll go completely crazy if you take too much.”

I licked the end of the match. “Where’d you get this?” I asked. “You can’t buy it.”
“Never mind,” he said. “It’s absolutely pure.”

I shook my head sadly. “Jesus! What kind of monster client have you picked up this time? There’s only one source for this stuff…”

He nodded.

“The adrenaline glands from a living human body,” I said. “It’s no good if you get it out of a corpse.”

When Thompson pushes his “attorney” about where the adrenochrome came from, the fictional character tells the fictional tale of having once been hired to represent a child molester/murderer who’d presumably extracted it from one of his victims:

“Christ, what could I say?” Thompson’s sidekick told him. “Even a goddamn werewolf is entitled to legal counsel. I didn’t dare turn the creep down. He might have picked up a letter opener and gone after my pineal gland.”

That little seed, entirely fictional, planted in the national subconscious back in the early ‘70s, has now blossomed into a full-blown flower of a belief held by literally millions of Americans.

As Rightwing Watch documents, uber-Trump cultist and “journalist” Liz Crokin explains in one of her many videos:

“Adrenochrome is a drug that the elites love. It comes from children. The drug is extracted from the pituitary gland of tortured children. It’s sold on the black market. It’s the drug of the elites. It is their favorite drug. It is beyond evil. It is demonic. It is so sick.”

People who have been ensnared by the QAnon cult and are gullible enough to believe this kind of thing are the explicit targets now in Trump’s crosshairs.

Similarly, when then-OMB Director Mick Mulvaney used the word “pizza” in a televised cabinet meeting, Crokin laid out how she and all the other Trump cultists were being flagged as to the “reality” of a pizza restaurant in a D.C. suburb being the place where the children were being held prior to being tortured and having their adrenochrome “harvested”:

“President Trump and his staffers are constantly trolling the deep state,” she said of Mulvaney’s reference as Trump nodded in agreement. “That’s President Trump’s way of letting you know that Pizzagate is real and it’s not fake. He’s constantly using their words against them and throwing it in their face and God bless him, it’s amazing.”
And now the cult that Trump has both adopted and built around himself is claiming its victims, as personality cults usually do.

Matthew Taylor Coleman, a 40-year-old Christian surfing school owner, drove his two children, a 3-year-old boy and a nine-month-old girl, to Mexico where he slaughtered them with a spear-fishing gun.

His children “were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them,” said federal officials handling the investigation. Coleman told police that killing his kids was “the only course of action that would save the world” because they had “lizard DNA” and would grow up to threaten us all.

Federal officials believe he learned this from QAnon/Trump followers, as did Anthony Quinn Warner who died when he blew up his truck outside an AT&T building in Nashville on Christmas Day 2020 causing a widespread internet outage in an apparent attempt to cripple the “lizard people” network opposing Trump, which included Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Obamas.

The University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism notes that 68 percent of the open QAnon followers arrested at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th who had also committed crimes before or after that coup attempt “have documented mental health concerns, according to court records and other public sources.”

Their psychological issues included “post-traumatic stress disorder, paranoid schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and Munchausen syndrome by proxy.”

The “QAnon Shaman” of so many iconic 1/6 pictures has now pleaded mental illness as his reason for showing up at the Capitol, as have two others who “were found to be mentally unfit to stand trial and were transferred to mental health care facilities.”

Of the six women arrested on 1/6 who’d also committed crimes before or after the coup attempt, the researchers note, “all six…have documented mental health concerns.”

This should be no surprise: Donald Trump also has well-documented mental illness, as do most messianic cult leaders. But his mental illness is what makes him dangerous to society, just like Jones, Koresh, and Manson.

Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee MD edited a compilation of articles by accredited mental health professionals discussing Trump’s issues and their possible impact on America, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Psychiatrist Justin Frank MD wrote Trump on the Couch, a similarly chilling account of Trump’s issues and their consequences.

Even Trump’s niece, clinical psychologist Mary L. Trump PhD, has repeatedly and convincingly documented Trump’s mental illness and its causes deep in his twisted and unhappy childhood with a psychopathic father.

And, it turns out, certain types of mental illness are functionally contagious.

People with Trump’s malignant narcissism can essentially activate or bring out narcissistic tendencies in others, which may explain in part the explosion of air rage among Trump followers who were, until recently, infuriated by being told to wear a mask in-flight.

Followers yearning for a parent figure turn to a damaged leader, hungry for adulation and to create a symbiotic relationship that binds them together, notes Dr. Lee in an interview with Psychology Today.

When it reaches a lot of people, we see a repeat of the Salem Witch Trial-type of mass insanity that ripples through society. This is called shared psychosis.

“When a highly symptomatic individual is placed in an influential position,” Dr. Lee notes, “the person’s symptoms can spread through the population through emotional bonds, heightening existing pathologies and inducing delusions, paranoia and propensity for violence – even in previously healthy individuals.”

We have multiple Republican governors now using the power of law, enforced by armed police, courts, and prisons to force women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, an emulation of Trump’s misogyny.

In an attempt to out-Donald his role model, Ron DeSantis is using Florida taxpayers' money to fly Texas-based asylum-seekers to Martha’s Vineyard and elsewhere: it got him a standing ovation in Kansas.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, half of the Republicans in Congress refuse to say if they’re vaccinated (although all probably are; outside of Louie Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert these people are grifters, not idiots), thus modeling behavior that is destroying families and even today still killing dozens of people each day in America.

Liz Cheney put down how Republicans in Congress refer to him as “Orange Jesus.”

Meanwhile, a clearly delusional pillow salesman promotes a democracy-destroying conspiracy theory that the Senate of the State of Arizona has endorsed and thrown a pile of cash at, while Republican state officials in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania tried to emulate Arizona’s “audit.”

If it all seems insane, that’s because it is.

There’s a very sad and very human aspect to all this.

We’re all primed to be a bit gullible when it comes to fantastical ideas. Childhood myths like Santa Claus and most organized religions teach us that things beyond our understanding were both real in the past and will cause events in the future.

We all grew up tiny and helpless, depending on giant magical-seeming adults to take care of our needs, and that little, frightened child who just wants to be protected and loved is still alive and buried deep in the psyche of each of us.

The 918 people who died at Jim Jones’ jungle camp in Guyana didn’t join the People’s Temple because they were suicidal: Jones’ own psychosis either infected them or wore them down to a passive compliance.

We’re all vulnerable to mass psychosis as a condition of our humanity.

That’s why true leaders like Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders openly refuse to allow cults of personality to form around them.

Back when Bush was president, Bernie ridiculed the idea of voting for him “because you’d like to have a beer with him” on my program. Vote for a politician’s policies, not his personality, Bernie said emphatically.

Even John McCain had the decency to correct a woman saying that Obama was a “secret Muslim.” While he appreciated political support, he was wary of cults around him or cults that were demonizing other politicians. He’d been in politics long enough to know it’s a two-edged sword.

So what do we do as a society when we’re confronted with a psychotic former leader who’s continuing to inflict and spread contagious forms of mental illness among our nation? How do we handle it, and repair the damage?

Dr. Bandy X. Lee says, “The treatment is removal of exposure.”

Point out as often and as clearly as possible what a criminal, hustler, con artist and genuinely damaged person Trump is, and put him safely in prison.

Break the bond with his followers by crushing his aura of invincibility: indict and convict him of very ordinary crimes like public corruption, tax fraud, bank fraud, treason, theft and rape.

Make clear how corrupt and destructive his policies were when he was in office, his criminality and treason around classified documents he stole and perhaps shared with or sold to hostile nations, and the long con he’s run since leaving the White House, fleecing donors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

If we fail to deal with Trump in this way and keep him in jail and out of the headlines for a good long time, it’ll be extremely difficult to rescue his followers who’ve fallen deeply into the QAnon/Trump rabbit hole. And in their induced psychotic state, the damage they could wreak in a country awash in 400 million guns is breathtaking.

Like so many infamous leaders in history, if Trump isn’t both stopped and imprisoned for at least another presidential election cycle (until 2028) he’ll simply attempt a comeback and further tear apart the psychological and political fabric of our nation. Hitler came out of prison stronger than when he went in: Trump would, too.

As Liz Cheney pointed out last year:

“Excuse by excuse, we’re putting Donald Trump above the law. We are rendering indefensible conduct normal, legal, and appropriate — as though he were a king.”
If we are to save America, we must convict and meaningfully imprison Trump for his lifetime of very real crimes. And we must do it now.

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https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/mentally-ill-trump/

 

I will just hit a couple quick things here.

Trump allies concerned about 'physical toll' of trial on elderly ex-president: DC insider
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-courtroom/


That is not really true. Its not the physical aspects of the trial that is taking a toll on Trump. Its the psychological aspects that is taking a huge toll on Trump and part of that manifests itself psychically like him gong to sleep in court. Trump has never been in an environment that he can't control where he can do and say anything he wants. He has never had to concentrate and focus on anything let alone do it for hours. And he's never been in environment were someone else has the power to tell him what he can and cannot do. And that is pushing him over the edge even further. Which is why he keeps fucking up like essentially admitting the charges against him are true in a rant outside the courthouse.


And then this.


Stephen Miller Gushes Over ‘Style Icon’ Donald Trump: ‘The Most Stylish President… in Our Lifetimes’
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/stephen...-the-most-stylish-president-in-our-lifetimes/



That is not what it appears and we saw it constantly when Trump was president. In Trump's delusional reality he is always the greatest, the smartest, the toughest, invincible, and infallible. And he cannot bear to have that delusional reality challenged. His ego and identity depends on it and if reality sinks in they could collapse.

So Trump surrounds himself with sycophants who not only lie for him but even more importantly lie to him. And one of their jobs is anytime Trump's delusional reality is being challenged they rush out and find ways to tell him how great he is to try and prop him up again so he doesn't just collapse.

But that safety net may have reached critical mass. Because there is noting more real than sitting in court facing criminal charges. And neither Trump nor his sycophants can control that environment and protect Trump from reality.

 

The great thing about this is we will get to see it in real time.


Trump in a 'tenuous' psychological place as his 'alternate reality' crumbles: expert

Tom Boggioni
April 22, 2024 9:52AM ET




Donald Trump (Photo via Flickr)




A former Department of Justice prosecutor who investigated Donald Trump for racketeering believes that the former president is in a downward emotional and psychological spiral as the reality of his Manhattan criminal trial pierces the bubble of invulnerability he has created around himself.

With the 77-year-old former president confronting the first trial in his life that could lead to prison, ex-prosecutor Kenneth McCallion told Salon's Chauncey DeVega that "the alternate reality Trump lives in is crumbling."

As McCallion noted, the former president has long championed himself as always being a winner and now, as his legal woes overwhelm him, he is in a place where he has had to rebrand himself as a victim of a system out to get him.

ALSO READ: A neuroscientist reveals how Trump and Biden's cognitive impairments are different

"Donald Trump has been forced to partially subdue himself, which is not his natural instinct," he explained. "He is not wired in such a way as to be able to remain quiet as a litany of accusations and evidence against him are presented," before adding, "Donald Trump is in a different psychological space, and a much more tenuous one. Trump is presenting himself to his followers as a victim, someone being persecuted. He obviously wants the world to remember and think of him as strong and resolute, and basically a good guy despite his personal peccadilloes. So, that self-image and definition of himself, which has been the basis for his popularity among many millions of Americans, is now being challenged."

Asked about Trump's worries about his legacy are impacting his state of mind, McCallion suggested his "ego is at risk now."

Noting Trump is being exposed to ridicule in a situation where his hands are tied by courtroom protocol and rules, he explained that Trump, for all of his bluster, is very thin-skinned.

"When he's been subjected to ridicule and laughed at, that is extremely emotionally and psychologically painful to him," he told DeVega before adding he thinks Trump might actually be trying to get tossed in jail now.

"I think that Donald Trump is probably trying to get himself thrown into prison or in a soundproof plexiglass box in the courtroom. This would enhance the narrative of martyrdom he is promoting, which resonates with his base. Neither Trump nor most of his die-hard base want to confront the stark reality that the problems they face are largely of their own making, and the result of a series of terrible choices made along with way," he suggested.

You can read more here.


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-psycologial-problems/

 

This sure looks right to me.



"The alternate reality Trump lives in is crumbling" with first criminal trial: ex-federal prosecutor
Chauncey DeVega
Mon, April 22, 2024 at 4:42 AM MDT·9 min read
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Donald Trump behind bars Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

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With a jury now impaneled, Donald Trump’s hush-money trial can finally begin in earnest. The outcome of the trial will impact not just Trump’s freedom but the outcome of the 2024 election and the future of the country’s democracy.

Per New York state law, no cameras are allowed inside the courtroom. The courtroom sketch artists have depicted defendant Trump as bored, sullen, hostile, occasionally happy, and with a look of contempt and disgust on his face. When sleeping in court, Trump looks very tired and drained of energy, his mouth open and his head fighting against gravity. Trump is reportedly quite upset at how he is being drawn, Rolling Stone reports. “Trump has also privately asked people close to him if they agree that the courtroom sketch-artist must be out to get him," sources told the outlet.

Trump’s attorneys, meanwhile, are still trying to stop their client’s first criminal trial by filing appeals for a change of venue because of supposed “bias” against their client, a claim the court has rejected.


Trump, for his part, has repeatedly violated his gag orders by threatening the judges, prosecutors, district attorneys, witnesses, jury members, and other people who are trying to enforce the rule of law. Judge Juan Merchan has mostly been successful in trying to discipline the impudent former president, at one point commanding him to sit down in court like he was a disobedient dog.

In an attempt to better understand Donald Trump’s first criminal trial such as the ex-president's state of mind and what the larger strategy may be behind his acting out in court (Trump is likely attempting to get thrown in prison as a way of rallying his followers as a fake martyr), I recently spoke with Kenneth McCallion. He is a former Justice Department prosecutor who also worked for the New York attorney general's office as a prosecutor on Trump-related racketeering cases.

This conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length.

Trump’s first criminal trial has finally begun. Where are we with the so-called “walls closing in” on Donald Trump?

The alternate reality Trump lives in is crumbling. You can see it in his facial expressions and behavior. Donald Trump has been forced to partially subdue himself, which is not his natural instinct. He is not wired in such a way as to be able to remain quiet as a litany of accusations and evidence against him are presented. For example, the Sandoval hearing, which reviewed the numerous areas where the prosecution will seek to cross-examine Trump if he takes the stand, was very damning. It laid out not only the criminal and ethics charges against him in this case, but also the charges against him over the span of the last decade or two.

How does someone like a mobster or politician or businessman like Donald Trump – who is also of course a former president – react to hearing the charges read against them in court?

Different people process a trial differently. I was an organized crime prosecutor for many years. Once they've been through the criminal process, and perhaps have done some prison time, you somewhat get inured to it. If you are a gangster, you are actually proud of having done some prison time. You are proud to be an outlaw; prison time gives you credibility.

Donald Trump is in a different psychological space, and a much more tenuous one. Trump is presenting himself to his followers as a victim, someone being persecuted. He obviously wants the world to remember and think of him as strong and resolute, and basically a good guy despite his personal peccadilloes. So, that self-image and definition of himself, which has been the basis for his popularity among many millions of Americans, is now being challenged. Moreover, Trump is in a setting that he cannot control. The judge and the legal process now have control over him. That is extremely frustrating for Trump. He's been stripped of his power. His diehard MAGA followers are still with him. But the optics of Trump in court are not playing well outside that die-hard group. To those people who are not in the MAGA movement, Trump looks like a mighty man who has fallen hard and will continue in a downward spiral.

What role does Trump’s psyche and concern about his legacy play here?

Trump lives in the present. But he is also very concerned about his legacy as an ex-president and more generally as a self-proclaimed successful developer. Throughout his life, he's been very vulnerable to ridicule. Donald Trump does not have a particularly thick skin. When he's been subjected to ridicule and laughed at, that is extremely emotionally and psychologically painful to him. Trump's ego is at risk now. This trial is over hush money and the cover-up regarding money he paid to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. The whole scheme is so amateurish. It was not particularly well thought out. It was executed poorly and there is a long paper trail. Not only do I believe that Trump will be convicted in this first trial, but he will also be extremely embarrassed. What Trump is accused of here is so obvious. It is the kind of white-collar crime that the Manhattan District Attorney's Office has sent many businesspeople to jail for.

This first trial is truly historic. It is the first time a former or sitting president has been charged with criminal offenses – in this case, felonies. How does that impact how the prosecution, the defense, and the judge and the court more generally are approaching the hush-money trial?

For the prosecutor, this is not uncharted territory. Yes, Trump is a former president. But, under the law, he is just an ordinary citizen at this point in time. Once the public fully realizes that the emperor has no clothes and that Trump is just a bombastic charlatan, then everything can turn against him very quickly. I don't know what the Republican Party is going to do if he implodes over the next few months, which is what I believe will likely happen. They don't have a plan B. The Republicans have put themselves in an untenable situation, politically and morally. They are in danger of becoming a permanent minority party for the next couple of decades, comprised of angry white folks seething in their own sense of victimhood.

Donald Trump is continuing to violate the gag order(s) placed on him by threatening and trying to intimidate the judges, prosecutors, district attorney, prospective jurors and other people involved in his trials. If he was a regular private citizen, he would likely be in prison by now. But could Trump’s behavior actually be part of a bigger strategy, where he actually wants to go to prison? Trump is very devious and was a student of master dirty trickster Roy Cohn. We can’t overlook that.

I think that Donald Trump is probably trying to get himself thrown into prison or in a soundproof plexiglass box in the courtroom. This would enhance the narrative of martyrdom he is promoting, which resonates with his base. Neither Trump nor most of his die-hard base want to confront the stark reality that the problems they face are largely of their own making, and the result of a series of terrible choices made along with way. In fact, he had an exchange during the civil trial in New York before Judge Engoron where he was basically daring the judge to put him in jail. The judge said, basically, “I know you want me to hold you in contempt and put you in jail, and at some point, I'm going to have to do that, but not now.” In the current hush money criminal trial, there is a gag order. Ultimately, if Trump keeps violating it, there will be severe consequences, financial if not otherwise. But it's difficult because you can't really try somebody on criminal charges in absentia from jail. The optics do not look particularly good for the country if we have a Nuremberg-type trial with a glass or plexiglass cage for Donald Trump. It would look too much like one of those political show trials for opposition leaders in the former Soviet Union that led to pre-ordained executions.

It's starting to dawn on Trump that this is all not going to end well for him. Trump may well just break out into a carefully calculated “unhinged” rant before the case goes to the jury. It reminds me of a basketball coach who gets himself thrown out of the game to inspire the players. If Trump was put in prison for contempt that would make his followers even more enthusiastic and loyal. It's a real tough call for a judge to make because you really need the defendant in the courtroom.

If Trump were put in prison because he continues to defy the gag orders and to be disruptive in court, what would that actually look like logistically?

Trump would be put in a gilded cage. He would be confined in Trump Tower or Mar-a-Lago because the Secret Service does have an obligation to protect him. Trump would not be put in the general population at Rikers Island. Alternatively, Trump could be put in some type of isolated confinement. The Manhattan Correctional Center (MCC), where Jeffrey Epstein ended his life, is only about 100 or so yards away from the courthouse in Manhattan where Trump’s trial is taking place. Trump could be confined there and participate in the trial through a video link.

Donald Trump is being very impudent and difficult in court. Sleeping. Glaring at jurors and witnesses. Muttering under his breath. He also had an exchange with Judge Merchan and had to be told to behave himself and sit down. Trump then stormed out of court. What are Trump’s attorneys likely telling him about his bad behavior?

Trump's lawyers must be saying that 'you are only hurting yourself by acting like a clown in court and childishly acting out.' He is making such a caricature of himself that it is looking more and more like a "Saturday Night Live" skit. But Trump is not going to change. His lawyers know that. These trials are a marathon, not a sprint. It really is amazing that Donald Trump can withstand such pressure without having a physical or emotional meltdown. Two weeks on trial is going to seem like an eternity to him.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/alternate-reality-trump-lives-crumbling-104211746.html

 

He should have asked Kenneth McCallion about the fecal stench that comes from Trump's soiled diapers.

 

We do it because Trump is full of poop, and he smells like poop.

latecomer91364, you can't carry stumbler's laptop.

 

'Trump appears to be dementing' as court naps raise new concerns with psychologist

Tom Boggioni
April 29, 2024 7:29AM ET




Donald Trump (MSNBC screenshot)




With Donald Trump having to spend more time in court as his lawyers defend him against charges of business fraud related to hush money payments handed over to adult film star Stormy Daniels, he has spent less time holding rallies where his verbal gaffes have led to concerns about his mental acuity.

However, as one psychologist has been making the case that the former president has been showing signs of increasing dementia explained, Trump's demeanor and repeated instances of dozing off at a trial where he is facing 34 felony counts should be raising new concerns.

According to Dr. John Gartner, a psychologist and former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, impromptu naps for a man Trump's age is not unusual, but considering the circumstances, he added it to his list of concerns about the former president's mental state.

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In an interview with Salon's Chauncey DeVega, Gartner bluntly began, "Trump's trial in Manhattan is providing more evidence of his apparent cognitive decline."

Elaborating, he claimed, "Trump fell asleep 4 out of 6 days of his own trial. Falling asleep is not in and of itself particularly specific to dementia. I fall asleep at dinner parties, because I’m old and work too hard. Bill Clinton was famous for it. But can you remember a criminal defendant repeatedly unable to stay awake at his own trial? I can’t. It’s obviously very rare. Most people are pumped full of adrenaline when they’re in the dock."

According to the psychologist, it is fairly common for dementia patients to "pass out" and explained, "... this may be the first criminal trial I’ve been aware of where the defendant appears, in my opinion, to have dementia. Is it a coincidence that it’s also the only one I’ve ever known where the defendant can’t remain awake most days? Trump appears to be losing control of his basic biological functions. One is sleep-wake."

Gartner also expressed concern that the stress of the criminal trial, which could lead to jail time, might also be hastening Trump's decline.

"The trial is really a form of psychological torture for a malignant narcissist who needs to appear powerful. Instead, he appears small, confused, and helpless," he observed.

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So what will happen if a large number of well respected and expert psychological doctors all say either of the contenders are not mental fit to hold the very demanding job of POTUS .who decides, fellow politicians, the supreme Court or the military?
Or because its never happen before there is no process in law or the constitution if he refused to step down

 

Nothing. And it has already happened. Some of the best mental health experts in our country wrote the book The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump where they identified Trump's FORMS of mental illness and explained in great detail why that made Trump literally the most dangerous man in the world.

Others took the US Army Field Manual and applied it to Trump's easily observable public appearances and statements and went down the list of personality traits that would disqualify someone from serving in our nuclear program. Trump met nearly everyone of them and yet he had the nuclear codes and and the nuclear football.

We have no official procedure for assessing a president's or a candidate for president's mental fitness to serve. All we have is the 25th Amendment to remove an incapacitated president but like most things in the US that depends on politics and not professional assessments. The 25th requires the vice president and a majority of the cabinet members going to Congress and telling them the president is unfit to serve. Then Congress can vote on removing the president. There were multiple times during Trump's presidency when some in his administration actually discussed invoking the 25th amendment. But they could never find a majority consensus. And the last time after J6 cabinet members who believed he should be removed from office resigned rather go through with invoking the 25th.

There are quite a few people, and I am one of them, that say that needs to change. And Congress needs to pass a law requiring all candidates for president to undergo a thorough psychological evaluation to certify they are fit to serve before they even get on the ballot.

 

Trump at least used to be able to tell when he was going to far and back off. But he's too far gone now and the interview he did for Time magazine is a great example of if. Trump's allies are planning for nothing short of a Trump authoritarian fascist dictatorship if he gets elected. Trump and his campaign have tried to distance themselves from that trying to deny that is what Trump would do if elected. And then Trump sits down with Time and confirms all of it. And we are also seeing the same things at Trump's courthouse rants, rallies, and social media posts.


Trump's 'outright psychopathy' on display in his new email meltdowns: columnist

Tom Boggioni
May 2, 2024 9:18AM ET







Concurrent with Donald Trump's hush money trial finishing up its second week of prosecution testimony, the former president's emails to his supporters are becoming increasingly over-the-top and shrill, leading to speculation he is not only having donation problems but also the pressures of his legal problems are getting to him.

As noted by Salon's Chauncey DeVega who has been reporting on the former president's diminishing mental state and possible psychological problems, there is a growing vibe of panic in Trump's emails as evidenced by a recent one that blared: "All hell breaks loose in 24 hours!" and another declaring he is being held "hostage."

According to DeVega's report, the strident tone in the emails begging for donations are demonstrating an increasing spiral in victimhood as he sits day after day in a Manhattan courtroom while facing the possibility of jail time if convicted on just one of the 34 felony counts he is charged with related to paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

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"With the beginning of Trump’s first criminal trial in New York, his emails have only become more extreme – and will only continue to – as the 2024 election and potentially three other criminal trials are closing in on him," he wrote before pointing to the recent Trump email that stated: "Friend, in 24 hours, the hearing on my GAG ORDER will begin. I COULD BE THROWN IN JAIL AT THAT VERY MOMENT! This is what the Hate-America Deep State has always dreamed of. STAND WITH TRUMP I won’t be able to campaign. I will be muzzled and silent. And Democrats will have free rein to destroy our country."

That led DeVega to argued that, "Of course, Donald Trump is lying. There is no substantive evidence to support his fabulist conspiratorial delusions-fantasies of persecution and other harm. The corrupt ex-president is in no way a victim, except perhaps of his own apparent sociopathy if not outright psychopathy, and other parts of his obviously diseased mind."

Add to that, he wrote that there is a sense that the former president is struggling to raise money to fund both his multitude of legal teams fending off criminal indictments as well as his presidential campaign.

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To make that point, he cited a recent Washington Post report that relayed, "In the years after Donald Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden, Trump sent so many emails and text messages asking for money that Republican consultants warned his mailing lists could become useless. The former president’s friends told him that they were being asked for too much, too often, and Trump himself ordered aides at one point to slow the solicitations. Some of his fans, pockets emptied, mailed handwritten letters apologizing for not being able to give more. Now, as Trump and Biden prepare for a rematch, Trump’s vaunted small-dollar fundraising operation is not bringing in as much money as it once did."

"They will need to find a way to trigger more fear, pain, discomfort, terror, and other negative emotions among the MAGA people and other prospective Trump donors and voters. Those negative emotions will be the motivation for giving a literal form of protection money to Donald Trump and the MAGA leadership," the Salon columnist suggested.

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Thanks for that it's the most frightening thing I heard .One of the most powerful men in world with a mental illness can do what he what's against any one he disliked and no-one can legally stop him.

 

You see, this is where you and american hater are wrong.
american hater wrong because he hates america. America is NOT a "shithole country" or a "banana republic".
You wrong because you don't understand just how great our constitution and our government is.

A President is one arm of the three arms of government. You've watched for the last 8 years, how the courts and Congress can stop a president from doing stuff. Trump with his wall. brandon with his student loan forgiveness. And we're about to see what the supreme court thinks about presidential immunity. a tricky question indeed, thankfully we have a supreme court to split that baby. But know one thing; whatever the court decides, it will be the right decision and it will be accepted sooner or later by America.

One man, or one party, or even one movement can temporarily sway this government in a direction far from the middle of the road. But in the end, sense prevails and we move back to more reasonable ground. It's been this way from our founding.
The imprisonment of Japanese during WWII could not happen now.
Slavery can't happen now.
Many forms of discrimination can't happen today.
We're struggling with the whole Trans thing, and of course pro-palestinian agitators, but cooler minds will prevail and eventually we'll work it out.

Now it might be that the 2024 election gets stolen.
By despicables or deplorables.
Or that might be the perception.
But it will work out.
January 6, 2020 was one of the ugly days in our history, but it was no insurrection. It was a riot and it got dealt with.
We saw injustice in how it was resolved, but it was resolved and we've moved on.
And whatever happens in 2024, we'll survive that as well.
Wait and see.

 

I hope you are correct .The USA have always in my eyes been a force for the good for mankind.Alway first to help people who are hit with natural disasters. I hope that new American government does not change this.

 

This couldn't be further from the truth. They meddle in the affairs if other nations. If you don't follow their agenda they bully and punish you. With illegal and violent regime changes. If they can't get in a leader that is pro USA then they sanction them.
Have you not noticed that the countries that do stand up to the US are considered the axis of evil. That isn't true at all. Just because they don't follow American standards, it doesn't make them evil. Just different.
If you did a survey outside the US and it's vassal states I guarantee most nations would consider the US the bad guys.

 

As for Trump being mentally ill. I don't believe that is the case. I do believe that he is a narcissist and is unpredictable.
Joe Biden on the other hand is mentally ill. And is not fit to be in office.