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So incredibly sad. I believe I was the first to point out your lack of credibility. Folks thought I was being outrageous. All the jargon and nomenclature can’t cover it up.old salt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:58 pmPreemptive strike before House hearings. Stay tuned.
Will Garland release Durham's report ? His DoJ is already sharing it with the NYT.a fan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:41 pmold salt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:58 pmPreemptive strike before House hearings. Stay tuned.And as we all expected.....Durham's report won't get Old Salt (and others) to admit they were wrong.
They'll ignore it, and move on to the next tinfoil hat investigation.
I thought the information was classified? You want leaks?old salt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:49 pmWill Garland release Durham's report ? His DoJ is already sharing it with the NYT.a fan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 10:41 pmold salt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:58 pmPreemptive strike before House hearings. Stay tuned.
They'll ignore it, and move on to the next tinfoil hat investigation.
Anything to change the news of the day.
MSNBC is desperate for fodder so they don't have to talk about Hunter & what's in the Biden docs.
NO ONE CARES.So what new did you learn from that lengthy blockbuster NYT report.?a fan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:02 pm
Old Salt, even you can't pretend to be this stupid.
Hunter's laptop has been in the possession of TeamTrump for three years. And even they can't name one single crime on that stupid, pointless laptop.
As for Hunter? You and your fellow Republicans told us not only don't you care about nepotism, influence peddling, conflicts of interest, and just straight up financial corruption....you MOCKED anyone who dared bring up the conflicts of interest with TrumpFamily.
You didn't care.
You TOLD America to not care about legal corruption like Hunter, Old Salt. Or Pelosi family stock trades. So guess what? NO ONE CARES.
You "win". Take a bow.
Didn't read it. Don't need to. You don't investigate something, for a SIXTH time, and this time, ordered by a plainly compromised Trump
And why would someone engage in these conversations consistently while “not being this stupid”?a fan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:02 pm
Old Salt, even you can't pretend to be this stupid.
Hunter's laptop has been in the possession of TeamTrump for three years. And even they can't name one single crime on that stupid, pointless laptop.
As for Hunter? You and your fellow Republicans told us not only don't you care about nepotism, influence peddling, conflicts of interest, and just straight up financial corruption....you MOCKED anyone who dared bring up the conflicts of interest with TrumpFamily.
You didn't care.
You TOLD America to not care about legal corruption like Hunter, Old Salt. Or Pelosi family stock trades. So guess what? NO ONE CARES.
You "win". Take a bow.
Must admit, you never disappoint.old salt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:22 pmSo what new did you learn from that lengthy blockbuster NYT report.?a fan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:02 pm
Old Salt, even you can't pretend to be this stupid.
Hunter's laptop has been in the possession of TeamTrump for three years. And even they can't name one single crime on that stupid, pointless laptop.
As for Hunter? You and your fellow Republicans told us not only don't you care about nepotism, influence peddling, conflicts of interest, and just straight up financial corruption....you MOCKED anyone who dared bring up the conflicts of interest with TrumpFamily.
You didn't care.
You TOLD America to not care about legal corruption like Hunter, Old Salt. Or Pelosi family stock trades. So guess what? NO ONE CARES.
You "win". Take a bow.
It was just an outlet for disgruntled DoJ lawyers to leak their office squabbles.
..Discussions of Trump’s cultivation by Russia (and other authoritarian countries) always founder on discussions of his formal recruitment.
There is abundant evidence that Russia, like other countries, did at least attempt to recruit Trump. Craig Unger has written two good books on the subject.
But many attempts to describe why and whether that happened, particularly in the hands of pundits, are easily discredited. That’s true, in significant part, because people imagine recruitment is an either/or thing: that people come fully recruited spies one day and from that point forward they are puppets of their handlers. The reality, as I understand it, is a gradual process of creating the preconditions via which people can be persuaded to act in ways that benefit another country.
On top of being an all around annoyance, for example, Jonathan Chait’s consideration of whether Trump had long been recruited was sloppy and made the entire Russian investigation easier to discredit.
And the thing is, such efforts are unnecessary.
All you need to explain Trump’s actions (and all I’ll rely on for this series) is Trump’s narcissism. Trump is such an epic narcissist, and narcissists’ reactiveness and paranoia and pathological need to feed their own ego are so predictable, that the only explanation you need for how Trump could be manipulated is that narcissism. So long as you could reliably trigger Trump’s narcissism, you could fairly reliably trigger a predictable narcissistic response to a given trigger.
Trump’s habit of releasing highly classified documents is a great example. Trump almost blew the Vault 7 investigation by revealing details that made it clear FBI considered Josh Schulte as the prime suspect to Tucker Carlson the day of his first search; Trump did so to try to blame Obama for the compromise. Trump burned an Israeli counterterrorism program by giving it to Russia, which he did to show off. Trump burned the satellite imagery targeting Iran, which he did so to dickwag Iran. Trump attempted to release all the backup materials to the Russian investigation because some dopey advisor convinced him that it would help to disprove his critics. Trump shared details of DOD’s plans to attack Iran with Mark Meadows’ ghost writer because he thought it would help him discredit Mark Milley. A master spy might have asked Trump to release all this intelligence for him. Maybe one day we’ll learn the documents that went missing from Mar-a-Lago were specifically requested. But you don’t even need that master spy request (and if there were a master spy, he might not ask for documents in the form of a request): because all it takes to get Trump to release highly classified documents is to suggest that in some way doing so will harm his detractors.
The Trump Tower Moscow deal — or really, any deal — is another example. It is not important whether the Trump Tower Moscow deal pitched to Michael Cohen (or any of the several other Russian Trump Tower deals) to be real, or plausible. Russia could, with great certainty, dangle offers for free money and the biggest tower in Russia, and Trump was bound to act irresponsibly, as he did.
There certainly could be more: but there doesn’t have to be. All you need to manipulate Donald Trump is to trigger his narcissism.
"useful idiot" would be the term of art.dislaxxic wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:49 am BALL OF THREAD: TRUMP’S NARCISSISM MAKES HIM EASY TO TRIGGER
..Discussions of Trump’s cultivation by Russia (and other authoritarian countries) always founder on discussions of his formal recruitment.
There is abundant evidence that Russia, like other countries, did at least attempt to recruit Trump. Craig Unger has written two good books on the subject.
But many attempts to describe why and whether that happened, particularly in the hands of pundits, are easily discredited. That’s true, in significant part, because people imagine recruitment is an either/or thing: that people come fully recruited spies one day and from that point forward they are puppets of their handlers. The reality, as I understand it, is a gradual process of creating the preconditions via which people can be persuaded to act in ways that benefit another country.
On top of being an all around annoyance, for example, Jonathan Chait’s consideration of whether Trump had long been recruited was sloppy and made the entire Russian investigation easier to discredit.
And the thing is, such efforts are unnecessary.
All you need to explain Trump’s actions (and all I’ll rely on for this series) is Trump’s narcissism. Trump is such an epic narcissist, and narcissists’ reactiveness and paranoia and pathological need to feed their own ego are so predictable, that the only explanation you need for how Trump could be manipulated is that narcissism. So long as you could reliably trigger Trump’s narcissism, you could fairly reliably trigger a predictable narcissistic response to a given trigger.
Trump’s habit of releasing highly classified documents is a great example. Trump almost blew the Vault 7 investigation by revealing details that made it clear FBI considered Josh Schulte as the prime suspect to Tucker Carlson the day of his first search; Trump did so to try to blame Obama for the compromise. Trump burned an Israeli counterterrorism program by giving it to Russia, which he did to show off. Trump burned the satellite imagery targeting Iran, which he did so to dickwag Iran. Trump attempted to release all the backup materials to the Russian investigation because some dopey advisor convinced him that it would help to disprove his critics. Trump shared details of DOD’s plans to attack Iran with Mark Meadows’ ghost writer because he thought it would help him discredit Mark Milley. A master spy might have asked Trump to release all this intelligence for him. Maybe one day we’ll learn the documents that went missing from Mar-a-Lago were specifically requested. But you don’t even need that master spy request (and if there were a master spy, he might not ask for documents in the form of a request): because all it takes to get Trump to release highly classified documents is to suggest that in some way doing so will harm his detractors.
The Trump Tower Moscow deal — or really, any deal — is another example. It is not important whether the Trump Tower Moscow deal pitched to Michael Cohen (or any of the several other Russian Trump Tower deals) to be real, or plausible. Russia could, with great certainty, dangle offers for free money and the biggest tower in Russia, and Trump was bound to act irresponsibly, as he did.
There certainly could be more: but there doesn’t have to be. All you need to manipulate Donald Trump is to trigger his narcissism.
He should discuss it with Joe. I've heard his son is unemployed at this moment. Rumor has it he is a world class negotiator. There might even be a couple of bucks in it for him and his old man. Some extra money will help paying for all of his lawyers. Holy moly, now that is something Hunter and trump have in common. They are both paying a Kings ransom to keep their backsides out of jail.
"This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a coverup. The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. Then, he covered up that conspiracy in his business records by lying over and over and over again."
Interesting watching the near real time reporting of opening statements on CNN.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:39 am"This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a coverup. The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. Then, he covered up that conspiracy in his business records by lying over and over and over again."
