The man is crazy. Sane people just don't

[Raven]

walk away from the White House with 300+ highly classified documents dealing with the national defense unless they have lost their minds. They just don't. Even by Trumpist standards, they don't. Forget whether it's wrong, immoral, criminal, treasonous, it's just nuts. In his shattered mind, what's left of it, he may have stolen the documents because he believed he was President in Exile and wanted to establish a White House in Exile in MAL. There is no way to know what he is thinking because he doesn't know. He is a feral creature now and a dangerous one. Think rabid...the DOJ is.

[fightforfreedom]

1. That's what I have been saying.

Trump is bat shit crazy.

[Dustlawyer]

20. To be mentally I'll he would not know what he did was wrong.

He knows! He needs to be imprisoned for life!

[homegirl]

41. Melania and the spawn

should have him declared mentally incompetent. Place him in a luxury "rest home" away from the relentless law enforcement agencies that are ready to prosecute Donald.

They would accomplish several things.
1. Mentally incompetent-he cannot testify
2. They cannot testify against him
3. They gain control of the remnants of the Trump Empire.

Being deprived of his adoring cultists and constant media attention would drive Donny to a rubber jacket in a rubber room in less than a year.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. He's not crazy. He's a terrible person who doesn't care.

Nothing new here.

[Raven]

3. There are terrible people who are sane. He is not. He may have been sane at one time in

his terrible life, but he's not anymore.

[wnylib]

34. I don't buy any insanity claims.

What Trump is doing now is nothing new or different for him. He takes bold, defiant stands when he is caught. He spins truth and fact or totally makes things up.

That's what he is doing now. Trump does not believe that there is good or bad, right or wrong. In his mind, there are only powerful and powerless, wealth and poverty, winners and losers. What you do and how you do it to be powerful, wealthy, and a winner doesn't matter. The only thing that matters to him is that you always win.

Trump knows no bounds and no limits. Nothing new here. Not insanity. Just Trump being Trump.

[BarbD]

35. Absolutely agree.

He has never had any respect whatsoever for the principles of government much less common decency. He runs his life like a mob boss and he always gets away with it.

[Eyeball_Kid]

36. Sociopaths are not amenable to therapy.

There is no “cure” for sociopathy or psychopathy. Trump cannot be viewed as mentally ill because there is no rehabilitation for him if he is declared incompetent and goes to “treatment”. He’ll just become a more illusive sociopath. Trump is a career criminal only amenable to social isolation to protect others from him.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Yes, a terrible person who has gotten away with it all his life.

And, who thought he was going to get away with it again. That's not "crazy." It's arrogance and stupidity.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Sane people don't do this stuff.

How many people do you know that act like he acts? How many former presidents behave like this?

He’s off his rocker. And, a danger to this planet.

[NullTuples]

28. A true narcissist can be sane, and quite evil. Trump is a true narcissist.

A narcissist is always going to harm people. They are fully aware of what they're doing, they simply are convinced that it's okay because they deserve it. It's like selfishness that has no internal restrictions, at all. The Republican Party at this point is soaking in it.

With Trump we had a narcissist with nearly unlimited privilege. It's is sorta like that saying about "absolute power corrupts absolutely".

[Progressive dog]

9. I agree.

[HighFired49]

15. Both

How about both? Psycho/sociopath.

[Ray Bruns]

17. He has the emotional development of a three year old.

He wanted them so he took them

[budkin]

4. He's never had a consequence in his life

He takes what he wants and that's that.

[Irish_Dem]

5. He is a ruthless sociopath and narcissist.

Cunning, crazy and dangerous.

[happy feet]

32. THIS!

Please do not conflate with people who live with mental illness, everyday.

[liberal N proud]

8. Evil is the term I would use to describe it

[onecaliberal]

23. THIS ALL DAY LONG

[mopinko]

10. louder for the people in the back.

i've had several threads about this, and it disturbs me that so few, even here, see the value of putting this front and center.
he is a sadly typical mad man, and should be firmly placed among their ranks.
may he be such a shining example of insanity that such a man never rises to power again.

put his brain images, and the real results of that dementia screen on my teevee, and i will feel like justice has been served.

[SamKnause]

11. He is not crazy.

He is EVIL.

He knows exactly what he is doing.

He is hungry for power.

He is my enemy.

He is the enemy of this country.

He, his cult, and the republican party are the greatest threat this country has ever faced.

[Raven]

12. He can be all the things you've listed and still be crazy. n/t

[kentuck]

13. A "feral creature"...

He was not going to leave the White House empty handed. He would take all the secrets with him. He has been a scourge on this country.

[maxsolomon]

14. "Crazy" just isn't accurate.

He has a Personality Disorder, yes, but that's not an excuse. He's still the biggest asshole in American History.

Sociopathic, solipsistic, Malignant Narcissist. He cares about nothing but himself. He lies without conscience and he always has.

But he's not crazy. He is rational. It's all in service of himself. He will do anything to preserve his ego.

[iemanja]

22. +1

[live love laugh]

38. ✔️ Calculating is what he is .... literally all about $$$

[maxsolomon]

43. I actually don't think that.

There is 1 thing more important to * than money: his ego.

[H2O Man]

16. Recommended.

He is a sociopath, rather than "crazy." But sociopaths do things that are crazy.

[wiggs]

18. No sense of duty, except to himself. I post the link to a fascinating and chilling interview

with an IC expert. It is not clear that TFG has felt a responsibility to the nation, while being granted access to information critical to security of the nation.

Thanks to gab13by13 for finding it and posting on DU. should be posted in every post about stolen docs and should be shown every night on news/political shows. Very clarifying regarding the seriousness of the offense.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. Criminal does not mean mentally ill, and conflating the two is dangerous.

[mn9driver]

21. Malignant narcissist. His niece Mary nailed it.

No one has ever been able to say no to him and make it stick. His two senate acquittals and the Mueller report fiasco just reinforced to him that he could do anything he wanted.

He wanted them. So he took them. Up until a few days ago that was working just fine for him. Right now he is having a meltdown, but on some deeper level he fully expects his tantrum to get him what he wants.

He expects the tactics that have always worked for him to work in this case as well. When it finally sinks in that he isn’t going to get away with it this time, his behavior will be interesting to observe.

[jcgoldie]

24. I don't know if he's crazy...

...I think the bigger issue is that he has never in his life had to deal with consequences of his actions no matter how criminal.

[RexLipton]

25. They were just things he could use

to enrich himself by selling or to use as Kompromat against the U.S. and others.

I'm sure he would have stolen the silverware if he thought could get away with it.

I just wonder if this is only the tip of the iceberg. Could there be thousands more pages or copies hidden elsewhere?

Whatever the truth is, he likely had help.

[Sky Jewels]

26. He's gotten away with massive crimes for literally decades, so to him

it made perfect sense.

[Warpy]

27. He's a malignant narcissist

and walking away with that stuff was hitting back at a "deep state" that had thrown him out of office and because nothing can ever be his fault and everybody has to love him, the election must have been rigged. The deep state must be PUNISHED.

This is how they think. This is what makes them dangerous, usually to everybody around them. This time it's dangerous to the country as a whole.

The best (and only, really) idea if you ever meet one in real life is to RUN AWAY. We can't run away from this sack of shit. We can only take harmful things away from him and try to isolate him as much as possible. He should not get those passports back any time soon, let the FBI and DOJ return them in as timely a manner as he returned those stolen documents.

These people aren't crazy. However, he's getting there. A little more legal trouble will do it.

My only complaint with the FBI is that they should have done this a year ago. Letting this clown dick around with dynamite for 18 months is simply unacceptable.

[maxsolomon]

29. NARA didn't ask for help until this year,

until they were convinced they were being Gaslit. As usual, the Federal bureaucracy is trying to operate according to the established rules and norms.

It's sad and a bit quaint, because * threw the established rules and norms in the trash, and they should know that.

[Warpy]

37. They really needed to consider who and what they were dealing with

They knew daned full well what he'd stolen because they didn't have it any more.

[Joinfortmill]

30. Boy. The feral creature is spot on.

[LiberalArkie]

31. In any other country in this world, no one would have known what he had done. He would have been

disappeared, along with his family and his friends and their families. The general public would have never known anything about it.

[ShazzieB]

42. In some countries, that would have happened.

Some, not "any other country in the world."

I think it's highly inaccurate, not to mention unfair, to lump all the rest of the world outside the U.S. together and say they would all have done exactly as you described.

Are there countries where that sort of thing happens? Yes. Absolutely every single country other than the U.S.? NO. That is a ridiculously broad generalization.

[calimary]

33. I HOPE the DOJ is.

We've BEEN nice.

We've BEEN patient.

We've GIVEN him the benefit of the doubt. Over and over and over and over and over and over and ...

And all he does is take advantage, and then MORE advantage.

THIS MUST STOP - NOW!!!

[YavapaiBlue]

39. Tfg

Drumph is the 6yr old kid that was never told No!

[Ferrets are Cool]

40. It's called entitlement.