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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 05:51 PM Mar 2016

"He was evil and his mouth was filthy"

David Gergen was on with CNN's Ashleigh Banfield this morning talking about Trump and saying that we need to see him more as a three dimensional figure. He says that people say he's delightful in person but very, very tough to do business with. Gergen said he'd had him into one of his classes and said "he mesmerized me" and said it was apparent to him that the public Trump is just "a theatrical persona." Ok.

Banfield also knows him and said this:

He was delightful to me personally for years until the one time I asked him a tough question and he turned into a viper. And he was evil and his mouth was filthy. And it was a real telling moment. It was frightening. I mean I truly was frightened and I was taken aback by it.


Gergen then said, "we need to know the complexity of the man."

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/he-was-evil-and-his-mouth-was-filthy.html
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"He was evil and his mouth was filthy" (Original Post) kpete Mar 2016 OP
"He was evil and his mouth was filthy" at first thought it was a quote from his dentist. book_worm Mar 2016 #1
Nothing about that seems "complex" to me. phantom power Mar 2016 #2
He's a textbook Narcissist maxsolomon Mar 2016 #3
don't question the golden asshole. pansypoo53219 Mar 2016 #4
Excellent for Ashleigh Banfield for telling the truth about Trump.Wonder what kind of retaliation... Hekate Mar 2016 #5

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
2. Nothing about that seems "complex" to me.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 06:05 PM
Mar 2016

Trump is happy as long as he is getting his way and everybody around him has their lips firmly fastened to his ass. If not, the thin veneer of humanity slips. There's nothing particularly "complex" about it.

It seems closer to "sociopathy" than "complexity"

Hekate

(90,704 posts)
5. Excellent for Ashleigh Banfield for telling the truth about Trump.Wonder what kind of retaliation...
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 07:32 PM
Mar 2016

...he'll try against her and her employer now?

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