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In reply to the discussion: I just finished reading Melania and Me. [View all]Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)Two books that came out about the down fall of Richard Nixon , Before The Fall and After The Fall. The presidential psychiatrist labeled Nixon a psychopathic homosexual. You may need to look that one up. You see it seems Nixon had a way of becoming the Nixon he thought you thought he was. So, if Nixon had say 5 one on one meetings in the course of his day, you would see five very different Richard Nixon's ! They called him tricky Dick, but having a glimpse inside his bag of tricks was such a treat. Predators only show you what they want you to see. As long as Trump had use of Cohen, Trump kept up his act of being the Trump Cohen thought he was up to the point in time Trump had no further use of Cohen. At that point, Trump labeled Cohen a liar and a con artist. There are many out there like Trump, the well educated in privet practice can be very good at hiding it, sometimes some of them cannot contain themselves at times and the truth of what they are and all about just seems to pour right out of them.
You see sociopaths do tend to have a short fuse, finding that fuse can prove to difficult. Other times no so difficult, although time consuming. Cohen most likely believed Trump was his friend and he knew how despicable Trump could become, Cohen thought he would never be that way with friends and confidants. In other words Cohen was fooling himself up until the fog lifted.