The Hare checklist is a standardized test to determine if a patient meets the criteria for a diagnosis of psychopathy. I've been told that a trained clinician can even conduct it using a detailed biographical history of the subject. With truly notorious cases, we all can!
To see if the #NarcopathPresident, @realDonaldTrump, truly meets the criteria, all we need to do is run through the checklist based on his personal history, past statements, and tweets (rich fodder, indeed). Play along at home.
Let's go through the list: https://www.businessinsider.com/hare-psychopath-checklist-test-sociopath-2016-11
Let's go through the list: https://www.businessinsider.com/hare-psychopath-checklist-test-sociopath-2016-11
1. Do you have "excess glibness" or superficial charm?
Well, it's arguable whether it's charm, but he seems to think so...
Well, it's arguable whether it's charm, but he seems to think so...
2. Do you have a grandiose sense of self-worth?
3. Do you have an excess need for stimulation or proneness to boredom?
4. Are you a pathological liar?
5. Are you conning or manipulative?
6. Do you display a lack of remorse or guilt?
7. Do you have "shallow affect"?
8. Are you callous, or do you lack empathy?
9. Do you have a "parasitic lifestyle"?
10. Do you have poor behavioral controls?
11. Do you have a history of promiscuous sexual behavior?
12. Do you have a history of early behavioral problems?
13. Do you lack realistic long-term goals?
14. Are you overly impulsive?
15. Do you have a high level of irresponsibility?
16. Do you fail to accept responsibility for your own actions?
17. Have you had many short-term "marital" relationships?
18. Do you have a history of juvenile delinquency?
19. Have you ever experienced a "revocation of conditional release"?
20. Do you display "criminal versatility"?
See #CharityFraud
See #TrumpUCivilFraud
Those are what we know about. There could well be multiple instances of bank fraud (loans from DB, conspiracy to mis-state Cohen loans) and tax fraud (again, loans from DB).
See #TrumpUCivilFraud
Those are what we know about. There could well be multiple instances of bank fraud (loans from DB, conspiracy to mis-state Cohen loans) and tax fraud (again, loans from DB).