If I didn't know better, I'd think that Trump is gearing up for an insanity defense.

[LuckyCharms]

I'm kind of torn on this.

The stuff he has been saying, especially the last few days...

Any rational person would think he is either insane or in the throes of dementia.

Maybe his lawyers told him that's his only way out?

However, I don't think Trump is so far gone yet that his ego would accept this scenario.

[TC 1]

1. 74 Million people voted for him

[Ocelot II]

3. Or maybe he really is insane.

[LuckyCharms]

4. Entirely possible.

[agingdem]

15. he's an amoral sadistic psychopath...

the hovering specter of golem Jack Smith has Trump raging...he can't fathom why his decades long weapons of annihilation (threats/intimidation/personal insults) are not bringing prosecutors/judges to their knees...accountability is a bitch and it's driving him to distraction...

[TheRealNorth]

21. This

His wealth has let him get away without major repercussions all his life.

[Igel]

23. I'd have gone with "narcissistic sociopath".

Don't see that he likes inflicting pain, more like he's oafishly oblivious to others' pain.

If he wanted to *inflict* pain, then he's obviously incompetent at the whole "sadistic" thing.

[agingdem]

28. psychopath...

a person who is manipulative, dishonest, narcissistic, borderline sadistic, remorseless, controlling, apathetic, amoral, promiscuous..a pathological liar...Donald J. Trump..

[dmr]

31. No, I think he likes, or at doesn't care about the pain he inflicts

There more to pain than physical pain.

He lashes out at people causing them tremendous pain. Look at what he did to those two women in Georgia -- they are still suffering - scared to death, i would be, too..

This just one example of his enjoyment, or at least his "I don't give a shit".

I'd offer more examples, but I don't feel well and can't think straight.

[Disaffected]

32. Didn't he once say (paraphrasing)

"When someone hits me, I hit back 10 times harder"?

Sounds like me he gets at least some satisfaction in inflicting pain and suffering.

[Igel]

22. Yeah, "You know, he's not wrong" was my first thought. n/t

[mopinko]

5. i'd rather see him in a locked ward than a prison, tbh.

this country, hell, this world, needs a srs discussion about how to spot a mad man b4 u elect him leader of the free world.
his records at reed wd make it a slam dunk.

[Recycle_Guru]

6. no. He thinks he's a stable genius. he can remember Man, woman, person, TV, camera

[getagrip_already]

7. I don't think his ego would let him take that way out....

He is the smarteiest after all. He has the bestiest genes. All the people say so.

[Igel]

24. Nah. If he convinced them he was insane

he'd turn around and say how brilliant he was for hoodwinking them.

[getagrip_already]

27. But he would be confined.....

They don't let people out the moment they are acquitted...

I just don't think he would want to end on that note. It would mean no potus, multiple trials, and years of psych battles.

[TSExile]

8. If this was anyone else...

...they would be in a home.

[wnylib]

25. We saw the same thing play out with Raygun.

Prop up the guy with Alzheimer's so he can appeal to RW fans. No way do I believe that he was not in the early stages during his terms, long before the official announcement after he was out of office.

[herding cats]

9. Maybe?

I admit I knocked the concept around, too. Is he smart enough to play the demented old man so well, though?

It could just be the stress is getting to him and he can't concentrate. The Obama flub appears as if Obama popped into his brain and he went off into his fantasy land where beating Hillary was actually a defeat against Obama, his true nemesis.

The rest, other than the WWII screwup, are just the usual lunacy he feeds his ignorant base.

[LuckyCharms]

10. I don't see how any lawyer would represent him.

His lawyers have their hands full with this guy.

I'm sure they are telling him to STFU, and he ignores them.

[herding cats]

13. I've never understood it.

Being able to withstand the nightmare of representing mega wealthy megalomaniac scumbags is a wild niche specialty to have on your resume.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. If he is NOT fit to stand trial, he is NOT fit to be POTUS.

Two can play this game.

Copping an insanity defense is not good political strategy. Who wants an insane POTUS?

[LuckyCharms]

12. The only reason he is running is because he thinks

it will keep him out of prison.

He doesn't care about being president. He cares about keeping his ass out of prison.

As far as state charges that can't be pardoned, he probably figures he'll cross that bridge when he comes to it.

[Hortensis]

14. I think he shows better now than when campaigning in 2015-16.

Remember his occasional extreme reactions to problems that arose, like the public reaction to his insulting the gold star family ? He'd disappear for a few days while he presumably got reglued together.

There was speculation they were clinical narcissistic rages, and for some while I hoped for a more profound decompensation he wouldn't come back from in time. Never happened, then or through all the extreme stresses since.

Now that I mention it, though, I can still hope. Maybe as our institutional protections continue to erode and then finally destroy his own...

[LuckyCharms]

17. I've noticed something about him this week.

I'm almost 65. I don't look it. Everyone says I look early 50's. I have an older sibling who is the same way. She's in her late 70's, and she's always looked 25 years younger.

Then, all of a sudden, within a month or so, she finally looked her age. The transformation seemed to happen overnight.

Same with Trump. When I viewed his antics this week, he looked to me like he has aged 10 years in the past month.

[LiberalFighter]

30. I wonder if he feels stress?

Maybe he didn't think nothing of it in the last 6 years or so.

Now with all of the court cases it has been building up?

[drmeow]

16. One word

Gaddafi

[underpants]

18. A couple things

You have 91 indictments on you

The unavoidable financial decision for being a rapist. $5M

You are so self absorbed (he gets a standing ovation at dinner every night) your 3rd string JV lawyers have no hope of stopping you from talking. Two big interviews in 3 days and then a rally.

You are right Lucky, he has no end. His ego control’s millions.

[dlk]

19. It is extremely difficult and nearly impossible to prevail with an insanity defense

Although when it comes to Trump, anything goes.

[The_Casual_Observer]

20. And don't forget: Only he can save this country.

Fucking Napoleon.

[skip fox]

26. The standard for hospitalization used to be (and probably still is): harmeful to self or others.

I think the second is obvious.

But who can/will make the determination

Maybe Chutkan can have him hospitalized for observation if he can't/won't shut up..

[LiberalFighter]

29. How would that go if he wants to be President?

That would be another sliver of people that would not vote for him again.

[erronis]

33. Who's the senile one?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/09/16/whos-the-senile-one/