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In reply to the discussion: Laurence Tribe: Serious question: Has he lost his mind? He sounds like Emperor Nero [View all]ShazzieB
(19,395 posts)In his tiny, diseased mind, I mean. It's part and parcel of his malignant narcissim.
He has a profound need to believe he's always right, in order to maintain his narcissistic delusions of being the smartest, strongest, most successful, most amazing person in the world. Admitting that he's ever made a mistake is anathema to him, as is admitting that there's anything he doesn't know more about than anyone else.
I believe this is why he can't stop yapping about the court cases he's lost. He knows that losing a civil case or being convicted of a crime means that somebody decided he was WRONG about something, and that is intolerable to him! He feels compelled to keep telling the world the verdicts were wrong and "why" and painting himself as the injured party.
Of course, that behavior only hurts him in a multitude of ways, such as E. Jean Carroll taking him back to court and suing him for defaming her again, but I don't think he's capable of grasping that, at least not anymore. I think the dementia has robbed him of everything except his desperate need to be RIGHT and his compulsion to keep trying to convince the world of that.
I think this is only going to get worse as the dementia progresses. It's absolutely insane that someone is so obviously and profoundly impaired has a chance of being elected president.
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