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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is running scared.
If we look at his language, from the examples of the last 5 years, we can hear the fear in his ramblings.
When he tries to explain his problems with his taxes, he doesn't deny them. He minimizes them. His political enemies are going after him. Look at all the "murder" and "sex traffickers" in the world and they are worried about a small case of tax fraud. What's wrong with rewarding your employees with a car or an apartment, he asks? Or paying their grandchildren's tuition to the best private schools? Everybody does it.
And why don't they tell us who murdered Ashli Bobbitt? A usual tactic of his, he is attempting to create an emotional, and possibly violent issue, to use later if he needs to threaten or to distract the authorities from his illegal activities. He will repeat it over and over for the next few weeks and months, until his base is ready to act upon it. Just like he did with the January 6th insurrection. He is a very adept practitioner of propaganda.
His primary concern at this time is staying our of jail. Also, he does not wish for anything to be publicly adjudicated. He will continue to blame others and spout his "whataboutisms" as a way to deflect from his criminal activities.
If another indictment falls, there will probably need to be an intervention.
Walleye
(31,008 posts)Botany
(70,489 posts)the most ghastly ménage à quatre in recorded history.
Botany
(70,489 posts)... to" a Slovenian prostitute who got into the country illegally. And the republicans and Fox News were
all fine with that because nothing tastes sweeter than a liberal's tears besides Hillary was a d**e b****
with a liberal agenda.
BTW the very day Jeffery Epstein talked about that he used Trump's plane to move girls around and that
Trump was still flying on his plane years after he said he wasn't Jeffery "hung himself" that night.
3Hotdogs
(12,372 posts)was his self hung for him?
Botany
(70,489 posts)... was staying, both video cameras went bad that night, both guards had "fallen asleep*," and that
was the first suicide in that facility in years too.
* I would have "fallen asleep" too. Some kind of mob hit man comes up to and shows you pictures of
your family and house and says something like, "Nice family shame if something would happen to them."
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I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)Child abuse is terribly common.
So if abuse created abusers we'd be overrun with them.
Give survivors some credit for choosing to not identify with the people abusing them.
I was abused got the scars in my brain to prove it.
Yet I abuse nobody.
That which you wrote is a harmful myth called the vampire myth. Educate yourself why that statement you wrote is incorrect
https://med.uth.edu/psychiatry/2019/10/18/child-sexual-abuse-and-the-myth-of-vampire-syndrome/
wnylib
(21,430 posts)becomes an abuser. Many do not. They heal and go on with their lives, and often become defenders and protectors of abused people, working to change laws.
But, people who are abusers are among the ones who were abused and did not heal from it, but instead, became perpetuaters of it.
To eliminate, or at least reduce, abuse in society, it is important that abusers be stopped legally and that abused people receive help in healing as soon as their abuse is known.
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)I think he'd more apt to be fleeing in a golf cart -- a golf cart whose batteries are almost dead...
MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)live coverage of TFG fleeing town in GolfCart-1 being paced by about 20 cop cars ( think "OJ" )........
(Faux Spews, of course, would be showing how TFG is on his way to inspect 'his' wall at the border.....)
Wounded Bear
(58,645 posts)KS Toronado
(17,198 posts)Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)That would be a perfect one!
wnylib
(21,430 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... in Western Australia photoshopped a picture of Trump fleeing from something that about made me choke on my coffee.
He'd quickly have a heart attack from a sprint, in reality.
wnylib
(21,430 posts)that I remember is the one where he was rushing to the WH laundry room for bleach after his covid diagnosis. That one nearly knocked me on the floor with laughter.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)I was thinking of a photoshopped photograph, with Trump's head attached to the body of an overweight man who seemed to be running through a hallway of the White House.
I'm not sure why it made me laugh so hard. I guess it was the expression on Trump's face in the pic (sort of red while biting his lip) which seemed to work so perfectly.
wnylib
(21,430 posts)but it sounds like it could have come from the period beteen the election and Biden's inauguration, when there were many photoshopped images of how TFG would be forced to leave the WH.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)The newspaper might've been "The West Australian"?
I later found other photoshopped pics of Trump from that publication online, but not the one that made me laugh so hard one morning months ago.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,174 posts)I picture Burgess Meredith as the Penguin.
Wounded Bear
(58,645 posts)His whole "strength" is in gullible people believing he is strong.
Like his wealth is based on people believing he is wealthy.
KS Toronado
(17,198 posts)as much as he'd hate it if someone called him a phony. He's told himself and everyone who would listen for
years that he's a very stable genius and smarter & wiser than everybody except Abe Lincoln. He's told
himself these big lies for years & years to where I believe he actually believes he is "The Greatest". Shame
Ali isn't around to teach him a thing or two.
wnylib
(21,430 posts)more than he fears having it exposed to others. Since he lives off of his projected image being reflected back to him by duped admirers, he would wilt under the reality of his real self if exposure to others cost him that reflected, projected self image. That is what drives him, fear of self.
NJCher
(35,654 posts)Eom
kentuck
(111,078 posts)Did anyone think that would ever happen?
He may have some exposure with the charges against Rudy also?
FakeNoose
(32,630 posts)This is just a guess ... but Chump surely owes Rudy for legal services rendered. Chump could have given him a pardon before he left office, but he didn't.
How many of us treat our friends that way?
wnylib
(21,430 posts)Traildogbob
(8,714 posts)Maybe Congressman Dr Ronnie Jackson can give him handfuls of chill pills.
Traildogbob
(8,714 posts)New free man Bill Cosby can hook him up with Qualudes. The original Q.
czarjak
(11,266 posts)wnylib
(21,430 posts)Chosen by himself, because he knows more than God.
czarjak
(11,266 posts)nvme
(860 posts)I can stand how this rethuglican screams constitution so long as they are not forced to abide by it. I want to vomit every time I see this scumbag hold a rally. I wonder how many Germans that embraced Nazism felt remorse after WWII ended? Will our fellow American's ever feel anything even slightly approaching that feeling? I want to be able to disagree without being hyperbolic or histrionic. I can not see it happening in the near future, but who knows.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Sorry, Donnie Boy! Your goose is cooked. You signed the checks.
Oh, and your CFO's wife also had a car to come to work for you and their grandchildren? They also worked for you? Hmmm!
Let's see what your children got...Melania?.....
johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)No Republican/Nazi is going to be bothered about any action against them. Just watch the Trumptard and followers run to the liars rally.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)His mental state, his excuses, his justifications, his upbringing, his whatthefuckever....
Your post is straight on and I agree, but for me it makes no more difference that all the "this and thats" we get from every other narcissistic skunk bucket who blames everything and everyone else for their crimes. I could care less what made him into what he is. He just needs to be gone and he can take his torch bearing, confederate flag worshipping, racist, disease spreading hateful thugs with him.
If it wasn't for innocent medical staff ending up on the butt end of the stick ... I'd recommend a true test of Trump followers be required to lick a petri dish full of Delta Variant ... and we could just be over it.