If Trump had just handed over the documents when they asked for them

[tetedur]

the orange Mussolini wouldn't be going through this. It wasn't necessary at all.

Remember the break-in at the Watergate was entirely unnecessary also. Nixon won in 1972 with 49 states in the Electoral College. He would have easily won the election without any information whatsoever out of the DNC.

Imagine the hubris of these men who believe they can do whatever they wish, cover it up and get away with it. It boggles the imagination.

Do they have a secret wish to harm themselves?

Personally I think Trump is delusional and is in serious mental danger.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I hope you're wrong about the delusion and mental danger.

I don't want Trump to get off on insanity.

[Irish_Dem]

9. He doesn't fit the criteria for NGRI (not guilty for reason of insanity.)

He obviously premeditated his crimes, and he lied and hid the documents.

This shows he knew right from wrong.

[Comfortably_Numb]

2. He just thinks the law doesn't apply to him. That it never has, and it never will. Good luck

outlasting the Justice Department of the United States of America. They have more brains resources and tools than those contractors he stiffed, or the painters, or the thousands of other people that should have busted his ass for his whole life.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Once again, his ego tripped him up...

[Kaleva]

10. +1

[Kennah]

4. Watergate looks like much ado about nothing compared to Trump's exploits

[Marius25]

5. But if he did that, how would Jared get paid $2 billion by the Saudis?!

Those documents weren't just going to sell themselves!

[EndlessWire]

6. He had a plan...

He thought he was smarter and could manipulate the disposition of the docs so that he could keep most of them. He probably sold some of these docs to the highest bidder. Who would go through this just to be able to show power to his club members?

[tetedur]

8. I agree he wanted to monetize the documents.

He had the nerve to say Nixon got $18 million for the tapes. As if there wasn't a law passed after Nixon that decreed that documents are the property of the US. If he couldn't get money from the American government, maybe he thought he could get money from his authoritarian buddies.

He wanted to monetize his mug shot for the NYC arrest.

[Wounded Bear]

15. Safe assumption. He monetizes everything...

he's already fundraising on the charges.

[musclecar6]

7. He

Thinks he can bullshit his way out of anything. No lack of arrogance and audacity in Donny.

[Yavin4]

11. But if he handed them over, he wouldn't get his money from the Saudis. n/t

[ChoppinBroccoli]

17. And He COULDN'T Hand Them Over, Because If He Did.......

...........they would have seen that some of them were missing. Guess where they went. Maybe we should ask Jared Kushner and his $2 billion of Saudi money if they have any idea where those documents went.

So he went to his standard playbook for everything. Deny and delay.

[NowISeetheLight]

12. Totally Ego

I think it's nothing but ego. They think they can get away with anything.

[democratsruletheday]

13. Exactly true NowISeetheLight.....they're

narcissists and as Garland has repeatedly stated: no one is above the law

[BWdem4life]

14. Pride goeth before a fall. nt

[ChoppinBroccoli]

16. I Tried To Explain This To A MAGAt

He couldn't understand why what Trump did was a crime, while Biden did "the exact same thing" and nothing happened to him. I explained to him in excruciating detail how completely different the situations were, and guess what happened!

Nothing. He still thinks Trump is being persecuted. There's no point in talking to these people.