Can You Spot a Liar? Enlightening article about con artists...

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1. another snippet

Early in the interview:

Khazan: Yeah, how can we even be sure what con artists’ life stories are?

Konnikova: The thing is, we actually can’t. I stopped talking to the con artists I was writing about, about halfway through the research process, because I realized that the same thing was happening to me. When I actually spoke with them and met them, I was no longer objective because they’re so good, so charismatic—you really start identifying with them and thinking, “Oh, they’re really not so bad.” You start making all sorts of excuses and it’s really not a good thing, so I stopped talking to them. I realized I needed to talk to the victims.

No doubt some within TrumPutin's circle have been taken in this way. Kompromat would keep them from exiting.