1. Much of this country marvels at Trump's capacity to lie, even to tell falsehoods that are so demonstrably untrue that a five year old wouldn't tell them. Then, people offer up a variety of theories as to why he told a particular lie. All of those theories are wrong...
2...I have known Trump since 1987. I have known many who worked for him, others he considered friends, family members, lenders, lawyers, etc. Most of them said the same things: There is no 4-dimensional chess in Trump's lies, which he told incessantly as long as Ive known him...
3...the reason Trump lies about the obvious is simple: He believes it. He is disconnected from reality. Whether it is from a disorder or habit, Trump's narcissism has led him to a point where all of his statements are based on his own self-aggrandizement. He is incapable of....
4...acknowledging flaws, or weaknesses. When he says he has the highest IQ of anybody, when he says he known more about how to fight ISIS than the generals, when he says that his inauguration was the biggest in history, when he says that the existence of a confidential source....
5...proves the FBI was spying on him, and on and on, he believes it. If you ever read one of his depositions - and I have read them all - he lies consistently under oath. Almost every lie serves no purpose - except the ones where he attempts to prove the case against him...
6...is false. Most of them are just false self-praise. To accomplish that, he has testified under oath that 30% equals 50%, that $400,000 equals $1 million, that he never spoke to people who refused to do a deal with him when he in fact did. I knew, as soon as Kim Jung Un said...
7...something that would help Trump's aching ego, Trump would jump at it, no matter how strategically flawed. I said on TV a year ago, if Kim was smart, he would simply compliment Trump and then Kim would get official tours of American nuclear systems. This is why, when Kim did..
7...something that Trump could use at self-aggrandizement, Trump would jump at it. The "meeting" with a president has been sought by Kim and before him his father for many years. It is meant to gain international validation. All other president's knew not to take the bait....
8...Trump only saw self-glory. So he fell into the trap. He also is not preparing for that meeting, if it happens, because he is lazy. But that is for another series of tweets. Again, there is a possibility that Trump has simply had the reflex of lying for his ego for so long...
9...that he has lost the ability to know the truth. However, I believe, based on everything I have seen in him since 1987, that the problem is deeper. Yes, he does not know when he lies. And all of his lies are for self-praise or defense. But in 1990, after a shocking meeting...
10...with him, where he had a virtual breakdown that was so severe I thought he had had a stroke, I believed that his senior aid who explained the event to me was right: That Trump is mentally ill. And Republicans are in such denial, they cannot face this reality, caring more...
11...about party than the nation, whispering to each other that the president is unbalanced (and yes, they do this) but publicly repeating his lies, sacrificing their souls for the purpose of staying in power. I said in 2016, when people kept discussing Trump would "shift" that..
12...Trump would never shift. There is no shift. This is who he is. And whatever flaw of character or mental illness that leads to the pathological lying, lack of preparation, and delusions is not going anywhere. We are at the mercy of a troubled man. And the GOP doesnt care.
