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Doodley

(12,082 posts)
Fri May 30, 2025, 09:31 AM May 2025

Court filings by Trump lawyers admit that he has "mental anguish and confusion."

Trump Suffered ‘Mental Anguish and Confusion’ From ‘60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview, Lawyers Claim in Bid to Deny Dismissal

President Trump suffered “mental anguish and confusion” as a result of how “60 Minutes” and CBS “deceptively edited” its interview with Kamala Harris leading up to the 2024 election, the president’s lawyers said in a legal filing on Wednesday.

The filing is an objection to parent company Paramount Global’s push to dismiss his $20 billion lawsuit against CBS for how it edited the Harris interview last year.


https://www.thewrap.com/trump-suffered-mental-anguish-and-confusion-60-minutes-interview/

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Court filings by Trump lawyers admit that he has "mental anguish and confusion." (Original Post) Doodley May 2025 OP
Snowflake! NT Daigan May 2025 #1
Thin skinned crybaby. 🙄 Dave Bowman May 2025 #2
Psycho liar who play-acts his way out of legal jams. MAGAts can dish it out, but allegorical oracle May 2025 #3
Mental anguish and confusion? MarineCombatEngineer May 2025 #4
So, no harm no foul - right? 👍 dchill May 2025 #8
Oh, there's always harm and foul with that criminal. nt MarineCombatEngineer May 2025 #17
Trumplethinskin madinmaryland May 2025 #5
Such a big tough he man. Biophilic May 2025 #6
Let's all sue for the mental anguish and confusion Trump and his merry assholes have spread across chowder66 May 2025 #7
Excellent point! Doodley May 2025 #23
The world's biggest class-action lawsuit! chowder66 May 2025 #24
Is that an Amendment 26 issue? kentuck May 2025 #9
25th Amendment OMGWTF May 2025 #14
Exactly! Or does he want to contradict his own legal argument? Doodley May 2025 #22
I'm trying my best . . . AverageOldGuy May 2025 #10
What does that even mean? karynnj May 2025 #11
He is trying to silence critical media and extort billions. Paramount want to merge with Skydance. Trump will block the Doodley May 2025 #18
An admission by his own lawyers that Trump is unfit for office. Martin68 May 2025 #12
Exactly! Doodley May 2025 #19
Philosopher Chrissy Tiegen said it best, "T💩p is a pussy-assed bitch." OMGWTF May 2025 #13
Hard to prove otherwise. Doodley May 2025 #21
He went on to "win" the election... Hugin May 2025 #15
Great. Now the psychological experts can begin real examinations. miyazaki May 2025 #16
This should be seen as documented evidence and a starting point for such an investigation. Doodley May 2025 #20
It's simple extortion. kentuck May 2025 #25
And he wants to be our strongman.... Blue Owl May 2025 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #27
lol LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #28

allegorical oracle

(6,594 posts)
3. Psycho liar who play-acts his way out of legal jams. MAGAts can dish it out, but
Fri May 30, 2025, 09:46 AM
May 2025

can't take it when it flares back at them.

MarineCombatEngineer

(18,181 posts)
4. Mental anguish and confusion?
Fri May 30, 2025, 09:50 AM
May 2025

I'm a little confused, hasn't Been A Dick Donald been that way for most of his miserable life?

Biophilic

(6,685 posts)
6. Such a big tough he man.
Fri May 30, 2025, 10:09 AM
May 2025

Really, this is the Right’s so called strongman? What a woose. This is who they look up to? That’s almost sad, but not a surprise.

chowder66

(12,516 posts)
7. Let's all sue for the mental anguish and confusion Trump and his merry assholes have spread across
Fri May 30, 2025, 10:41 AM
May 2025

the country and the world!

kentuck

(115,644 posts)
9. Is that an Amendment 26 issue?
Fri May 30, 2025, 11:53 AM
May 2025

Just how much mental anguish and confusion are we talking about?

Maybe he needs to step down?

karynnj

(61,102 posts)
11. What does that even mean?
Fri May 30, 2025, 12:12 PM
May 2025

Could someone have sue The Apprentice because it was obviously not just edited, but scripted? Wouldn't this be true for every "reality show"?

As to Harris's interview, in my opinion she did not seem different than in any other interview. Even if you back to when she was a Senator, she was DEVASTATING in hearing asking well constructed initial questions and pursuing more information in followup questions. Although staff could have written the initial question a Senator asked, they could not have crafted every followup. (though they might have researched many things that could later guide the Senator in creating followups.) I was always fascinated by seeing legislators in hearings as you can see who did their homework and how were just reading a series of prewritten questions. The former were far better and were the ones that often opened up important questions. Harris was one of those.

So, why when Harris sounded smart, engaged and serious, was Trump confused and suffering mental anguish? I suggest that it is because he believed the RW alternative reality of who Harris was. That she was never the vacuous, stupid woman that they said was is NOT the fault of CBS. Further, I wonder if he ever thought about the degree to which Fox and those to its left always edited him. Without that editing most of his office the cuff comments are unacceptable.

I hope they bring up another point. There was absolutely no other media or even DU chatter that this interview 1) showed her in a light never seen before 2) appeared to have discontinuities due to editing or 3) led to a huge increase in support for Harris.

Doodley

(12,082 posts)
18. He is trying to silence critical media and extort billions. Paramount want to merge with Skydance. Trump will block the
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:51 PM
May 2025

merger unless he gets enough extortion money. You are right. Harris did nothing wrong. This is a bogus case. Trump knows that. Paramount know that, but like a good mafia boss, Trump will get his payday.

Doodley

(12,082 posts)
20. This should be seen as documented evidence and a starting point for such an investigation.
Fri May 30, 2025, 04:56 PM
May 2025

kentuck

(115,644 posts)
25. It's simple extortion.
Fri May 30, 2025, 07:22 PM
May 2025

He knows that Paramount wants a merger with another huge company, that would be worth billions to them, and they need the government's approval to get it done. Trump wants them to pay him a huge sum of money so they can get their merger approved. He has them over a barrel. Nothing more than simple extortion.

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