It's time to talk about Trump's mental decline

[AntivaxHunters]

And they say Biden is losing it?
Give me a fucking break.

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[Fritz Walter]

1. He's also a pathological liar

…Not to mention his narcissism.

[JoseBalow]

14. He's an all-around shit person

Just garbage, in every respect.

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[Ocelot II]

2. Now that Powell has agreed to plead guilty in exchange for her testimony,

wouldn't it make more sense for TFG to invoke the privilege and claim she was acting as his attorney and that he was relying on her advice? But he doesn't think strategically, just reactively - so whenever someone associated with him gets in trouble he just reflexively distances himself from them.

[Irish_Dem]

5. He can't do that because privilege cannot be used to cover the commission of a crime.

[Ocelot II]

7. Of course; but he'd have tried anyhow just for the purpose of delay.

Now he can't even do that.

[Irish_Dem]

8. I'm talking law, you are talking psychological strategy.

Role reversal today!

[Irish_Dem]

23. Think about the fact he is not even trying for a delay, his go to tactic.

What is that telling us?

It is telling us that Trump is very worried about SP's testimony.
He wants to distance her as much as possible.

[calimary]

3. You'd think more people would be talking about this very thing.

The drumbeat should DEFINITELY start. And start NOW while it has time to build and take hold.

[Irish_Dem]

4. This is not mental decline at all. It is just his usual psychopath lying.

[3Hotdogs]

24. Nah. The housekeeper took the day off, tending her sick kid. Sidney was there dusting the rooms.

[GuppyGal]

6. So what was she then an advisor? A buddy a pal? Whatever I don't see how it even matters WTF she was

or wasn't. He fucked.

[getagrip_already]

9. All his priv claims have been denied in courts

Exec, lawyer, presidential, all of it has been stripped away piece by piece.

He is playing to the public, not the courts with this argument. It means nothing to his charges whether she changed his diapers or filed his briefs.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Reflex mendacity.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Many examples of his decline. This is not one of them. Actually, there is basis for tRump's claim

Just being in a conversation in the Oval Office is more akin to an Adviser than a personal attorney. Even if the person is a lawyer, it is not automatically client-attorney conversation.

Asking to be appointed Special Counsel is not the same as being a personal attorney.

Being appointed Special Counsel (good thing she never was) is the nothing like being a personal attorney, though there is little doubt that she would have slavishly worked against his personal targets.

The Oval Office conversation is not evidence that tRump's claim is demented.


There is lots of other evidence of his decline. Confusion over World Wars, airports in the Revolutionary War, mixing people up, repeating himself, devolving into word salad as he gets more confused about some point he thinks he is making.

[LymphocyteLover]

16. This does seem more like a lie than decline but if Powell wasn't working for Trump, who was

she working for?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. She was working for tRump

Lawyers are not always working in lawyer mode. Sometimes they work in other modes. "Hey, we should print t-shirts that say Stop the Steal and others that say Civil War 2 Has Begun", "I can go on a show and talk about Releasing the Kraken!"

Like a submarine commander might work as a carpenter for Habitat for Humanity.

She was working for tRump, but not as a lawyer. The reason is that there are some protocols around when lawyers are actually working as official counsel and those protocols are a little more complicated for government officials. I'm sure she was not officially his lawyer.

That all said, she undoubtedly make comments and suggestions on legal aspects of the insurrection, but not officially as his lawyer.

There are technicalities and then there is reality, of course.

But in the end, it doesn't matter, NOW, since tRump voluntarily took away his own "acting on advice of attorneys" defence with regard to Powell. So she can't be bound by attorney-client privilege in the Georgia case, even if it could be asserted (can't be because advice in process of committing crime or aiding and abetting crime is not protected). This probably also frees Jack Smith to use her testimony and record of testimony wherever he likes.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. makes sense, thanks

[orleans]

19. according to trump powell was part of a "truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers

and representatives"

[ancianita]

12. Most don't care about his mental decline, just about his competence to stand trial, be convicted, then jailed.

[world wide wally]

13. If Trump experienced any more "mental decline" he would become a snail in search of a Cadillac.

[JoseBalow]

15. Look at that S-car go!

[orleans]

20. ...

[Chainfire]

21. I don't think that what Trump says, about any incident is, in any way, relevent to the legal procedures.

She either was or was not his lawyer, that will be proved by did she ever draw a dime from the Trump Organization or gave Trump legal advice. More importantly today is how much dirt does she have on Trump because she has now crossed the River Jordan and has promised to sin no more. She is fighting to save her ass, which is always good motivation. That bump you just felt was the bus rolling over Trumpty Dumpty.

Today Trump feels it is best if she wasn't his lawyer, if that changes, he will swear that she has always been his lawyer and he has never said anyting to the contrary. Trump's base will follow him through every twist and turn. George Orwell described this kind of behavior.

[Vinca]

22. We can talk about Trump's mental decline, but it doesn't matter to the brainwashed cult.

GOP politicians are afraid of the cult, so they'll continue to pretend the orange wannabe king isn't a babbling idiot. He'll be their nominee, guaranteed. As for Biden vs. Trump. They'll try their hardest to make Joe seem like the babbling idiot Trump is and they might have some success given people rarely take their noses out of their phones. Democrats just have to push the accomplishments constantly and - most importantly, IMO - abortion rights. I think 2024 will be won or lost on abortion rights.