{"id":43815,"date":"2020-01-20T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T22:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43815"},"modified":"2020-01-20T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T23:09:10","slug":"does-trump-have-impeachment-dementia-or-are-his-lies-just-getting-more-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43815","title":{"rendered":"Does Trump Have Impeachment Dementia Or Are His Lies Just Getting More Bizarre?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something grossly disturbing about how extreme Donald Trump has become in his frantic outbursts decrying the fact that he has been impeached. It&#8217;s like watching a paranoid schizophrenic sinking deeper into the delusional hallucinations that drive his deviant behavior. Except this one has access to nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-grimmace-red.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Red Face\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42423\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3258034484211324\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, Trump was suffering from an especially severe case of the whines. This was manifested on his Twitter feed where he posted a string of typically narcissistic messages exalting himself, interspersed with vitriolic attacks on his foes. The trigger for this episode may have been the release of his impeachment trial <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-impeachment-inquiry\/trump-s-defense-read-full-text-legal-brief-ahead-senate-n1118876\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">briefing<\/a><\/strong> by his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43789\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News legal team<\/a><\/strong>. The document is 110 pages of expanded Twitter rants that fail to even address the substance of the charges against him. Trump&#8217;s lawyers are focused solely on their ludicrous theory that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43806\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">whatever Trump did was okay<\/a><\/strong> and that he should not be convicted and removed from office even if every allegation is proved true.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump himself is focused on an imaginary universe wherein everything morphs into whatever he wishes it would be at whatever moment he wishes it. That&#8217;s the only explanation for a couple of his morning tweets that bear no resemblance to reality. For instance&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They didn\u2019t want John Bolton and others in the House. They were in too much of a rush. Now they want them all in the Senate. Not supposed to be that way!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1219285375736328192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has paid even peripheral attention to the impeachment proceedings knows that the House wanted John Bolton&#8217;s testimony very much. The problem was that Trump invoked the fake privilege of <em>&#8220;absolute immunity&#8221;<\/em> in order to prohibit Bolton, and many other White House staffers, from testifying. There is no way that Trump could not know this. So he is either deliberately lying or mentally unhinged. Which would also explain this other tweet&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cryin\u2019 Chuck Schumer is now asking for \u201cfairness\u201d, when he and the Democrat House members worked together to make sure I got ZERO fairness in the House. So, what else is new?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1219286662221651970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The House proceedings were always conducted fairly. Every Republican member of the relevant committees was give equal time to question witnesses and provide defensive arguments. Both Democrats and Republicans had counsel who were also afforded equal time to press their case in the hearings. The only diversion from equality was the absence of testimony from Trump&#8217;s White House. But again, they were only absent due to Trump&#8217;s refusal to allow them to participate. This is another situation that Trump has to be fully aware of, unless he is certifiably insane or flagrantly dishonest.<\/p>\n<p>So it was Trump who was responsible for the absence of witnesses he is complaining about. And it was Trump whose refusal to cooperate produced the unfairness he is whining about. And it was actually people like Rep. Adam Schiff, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Sen. Chuck Schumer, who were advocating for fairness all along. Trump was, and still is, the obstacle. That was articulated concisely in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/housejudiciary\/u-s-house-of-representatives-files-replication-to-presidents-answer-to-the-articles-of-50a3bfa606ea\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic response<\/a><\/strong> to Trump&#8217;s brief:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Only if the Senate sees and hears all relevant evidence \u2014 only if it insists upon the whole truth \u2014 can it render impartial justice. That means the Senate should require the President to turn over the documents he is hiding. It should hear from witnesses, as it has done in every impeachment trial in American history; it especially should hear from witnesses the President blocked from testifying in the House. President Trump cannot have it both ways. His Answer directly disputes key facts. He must either surrender all evidence relevant to the facts he has disputed or concede the facts as charged. Otherwise, this impeachment trial will fall far short of the American system of justice.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tweets above show that Trump is either suffering from a massively psychotic departure from reality, or that he is shamelessly distorting the truth that everyone else can see as plain as day. That in itself would suggest that Trump is a few fries short of a Happy Meal. But then, what else is one to conclude about someone who has been documented to have told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/01\/20\/president-trump-made-16241-false-or-misleading-claims-his-first-three-years\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">more than 16,000 lies<\/a><\/strong> in three years; or who cozies up to murderous dictators; or who compliments himself as &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/389vQBN\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Very Stable Genius<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221; It is simply no longer possible to ignore that America&#8217;s <em>&#8220;president&#8221;<\/em> is out of his friggin&#8217; mind! Which means the same must be true for the cult followers who continue to support him in Congress, the press, and the wingnutty contingent of the public.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something grossly disturbing about how extreme Donald Trump has become in his frantic outbursts decrying the fact that he has been impeached. It&#8217;s like watching a paranoid schizophrenic sinking deeper into the delusional hallucinations that drive his deviant behavior. Except this one has access to nuclear weapons. On Monday morning, Trump was suffering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,8],"tags":[1295,1230,554,39,156],"class_list":["post-43815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-adam-schiff","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeach","tag-john-bolton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-grimmace-red.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-boH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43366,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43366","url_meta":{"origin":43815,"position":0},"title":"Desperate Trump Deceives His Disciples With Ludicrous Claims Re: Impeachment Polls","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/26\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry hearings produced abundant evidence that Donald Trump improperly abused his power and the office of the presidency. 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