Froomkin: Donald Trump wasn't detached from reality. He was opposed to reality.

[Nevilledog]

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🎯 @froomkin: “Trump wasn’t detached from reality. He was uninterested in it. He was more interested in making his own reality… the real story is Trump’s attempt to steal the election was completely premeditated and obvious to anyone paying attention.”

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Donald Trump wasn’t detached from reality. He was opposed to reality. | Press Watch
At this point, it’s doing Trump a huge favor to suggest that he didn’t know what was real. But that’s exactly what the New York Times is reporting.
12:45 PM · Jun 14, 2022

https://presswatchers.org/2022/06/donald-trump-wasnt-detached-from-reality-he-was-opposed-to-reality/

Reporters are making a mistake if they think the big takeaway from Monday’s January 6 committee hearing was that Donald Trump’s formerly sycophantic attorney general said his boss was “detached from reality.” (And they are.)

First, that’s not what Barr said. He raised it as a possibility. The excerpts the committee released showed him saying, of a post-election meeting with Trump:

I was somewhat demoralized because I thought, ‘Boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, he has lost contact with, with uh — he’s become detached from reality, if he really believes this stuff’ … On the other hand, when I went into this and would tell him how crazy some of the allegations were… there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.

Trump wasn’t detached from reality. He was uninterested in it. He was more interested in making his own reality.

Second, Bill Barr may sound incredibly earnest, but he’s got no credibility. He was Trump’s toady in office. Starting with his deceptive summary of the Mueller Report, he has snookered the DC media time and time and time again. He’d still vote for Trump.

And third, the whole point of the hearing was to conclusively prove that Trump had to be aware that he lost, because almost all of his most trusted advisers had told him so. (“Apparently inebriated” Rudy Giuliani notwithstanding.) Some of the criminal charges Trump faces require proof of willfulness, and the committee is trying to increase pressure on the Department of Justice to indict him.

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[blm]

1. Exactly. Painting Trump as a true believer in his lies is just

another deceit.

[Claustrum]

2. This is correct.

He has been countered from the start in 2015. He was being corrected by many people about his falsehood but he would ignore everyone who told him what he didn't want to hear. Then he went back to his original idea as if he didn't know better.

[Blue Owl]

3. An idiot who actually believes in hurricane guns....

is pretty detached from reality….

[Novara]

4. No, that's just plain stupidity

He knew he lost.

This proves it, if nothing else:

“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.”

- said to the attorney general

[Irish_Dem]

5. These statements reflect Trump's stupidity, not psychosis.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Trump is not psychotic, he is a sore loser and con artist.