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Donald Trump, exhibiting behavior consistent with his broken personality, is casting about for enablers to help him protect the false reality that he “won.”
This is a big deal, but also worth noting that all of these ideas were shot down by his staff.
/1 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-sidney-powell-voter-fraud.html
This is a big deal, but also worth noting that all of these ideas were shot down by his staff.
/1 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-sidney-powell-voter-fraud.html
It’s important to view what Trump is doing through the lens of his pathological worldview.
One pillar that supports someone with true NPD is the belief that they are ‘special’ - and this belief is reinforced every time they get away with something that others wouldn’t. https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1248321822904311808
One pillar that supports someone with true NPD is the belief that they are ‘special’ - and this belief is reinforced every time they get away with something that others wouldn’t. https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1248321822904311808
Donald Trump’s entire life has been a series of events enabling his entitled belief that he is ‘special’ - from his dad bailing out failures, to banks allowing him to default, to unseen forces helping him win the 2016 election.
He can’t allow himself to fathom what comes next
/3 https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1188745257665490944
He can’t allow himself to fathom what comes next
/3 https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1188745257665490944
At this point, Trump will take help from anyone who he believes will help him avoid what’s coming, no matter who they are.
That’s why Trump hosted Sidney Powell and Mike Flynn at the White House last night, and had Giuliani join in via speaker phone.
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That’s why Trump hosted Sidney Powell and Mike Flynn at the White House last night, and had Giuliani join in via speaker phone.
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He discussed making Powell a “special counsel investigating voter fraud,” but the idea was opposed even by most of his own advisors - including Giuliani.
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It’s equally important to recognize that even Trump’s die-hard enablers who have stuck with him through everything appear to be shocked by what he’s doing and don’t want to go along with it.
He is turning to an increasingly smaller - and more extreme - group of people.
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He is turning to an increasingly smaller - and more extreme - group of people.
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As Jonathan Swan reports, “These officials tell me that Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of power.”
Psychologists and NPD victims are not surprised by this.
/7 https://www.axios.com/trump-officials-alarmed-overturn-election-results-a844d1d2-acb2-47a9-87ce-ac579458b1ea.html
Psychologists and NPD victims are not surprised by this.
/7 https://www.axios.com/trump-officials-alarmed-overturn-election-results-a844d1d2-acb2-47a9-87ce-ac579458b1ea.html
