REDIAL

"He's been hiding behind his daddy's money and lawyers all his adult life."

It seems to me that's all part and parcel of the same thing. As I said, I'm only offering the Reader's Digest version. Trump has so many other psychological problems, we'd run out of bandwidth if we tried to list them. I Probably some names that we amateurs couldn't even pronounce.

I agree that a grown man should have left his father's comfortable nest many years ago. But he didn't and now we're stuck with this damaged excuse of a man, still covering up his insecurity with lies that he's been telling for so long he probably believes them.

REDIAL

It wouldn't take a psychiatrist long to notice that Trump didn't have a normal upbringing.

I've noticed that he refers to his father as "my father" instead of "my dad." That alone is a tell-tale indication that they didn't have a close relationship. According to Mary Trump's book, "Too Much and Never Enough" his mother was a social butterfly, more interested in her social position than being a common mother.

This is in no way offered as an excuse. Just a thumbnail sketch of the consequence of a psychologically damaged insecure disaster of a human being Trump has become. One that has been hiding behind a smokescreen of bluster all his adult life.

Trump has this morbid necessity to hurt people.

Better yet if he can get someone (ICE) to do it for him.

I suppose that's how he hides his insecurity, even from himself.

He probably pulled the wings off flys in his youth. That's how it starts.

RIGHT/TRITE

My seniority is #7. In the 20 years I've been a regular on this site I've never seen a single problem solved, nor anybody's mind ever changed. That should tell you something. I also never get involved in anybody insult fest. Personally, I find it intellectually childish and boorish. But mine is not to pass verbal judgement. I just exercise my option to ignore and move on to better company.

MODER8

The Drudge Report is a different life. It's seldom anything else except a place to vent. If we didn't have this place, some people would be taking their frustrations out in our other, real life. So it does serve a purpose as long we don't let our two lives merge. I use the killfile if someone is too annoying. I can get along just fine without them. Try it sometime and see if it doesn't make you feel better. Keep in mind that no problem has ever been solved on this site. Just stick to your favorite posters and ignore the rest. It works for me.

We know where to point that finger. Trump is the biggest charity cheater of them all.

He even stages the events himself so he can cheat.

The exact number of veteran charities Trump cheated probably run in the hundred. However, "Wounded Warriors," ended up successfully suing Trump to get the money they were promised.

And that's a matter on record.

GTBRITISH

Yes, shades of dirty trickster Karl Rove's vote changing software in Romney's Ohio campaign. When it didn't work - (discovered and blocked by a couple college nerds) - - and Ohio was called for Obama and the win for President. Rove had a meltdown on live TV. It was hilarious watching his eyes bulge out of his head and break into a cold sweat.

From that it was suspected that Rove had already accepted "gifts" and made promises in Romneys name.

As for Kushner, I wonder when Saudi moneybags are going to catch on. They depended a lot on Kushner's "Trump connections" for a return on their investments.

Suckers!

What's that saying? You can fool some of the people etc,etc, etc?

(Not the one Dubya mangled)

For someone who was trying desperately to hold onto Congress, everything Trump did was the wrong thing to do. Noone doubts that these wrong things were personally insisted upon by Trump himself.

A genius he's NOT. Quite the contrary, in fact.

If he had a full-proof plan to hold onto Congress, he doesn't act like it. Again, to the contrary. He's sweating blood. And, at the same time, doubling down on the wrong.

Again, A genius he ain't. And he's going to pay a high price for his own bitterness.

LAMP

It could be. It depends on how many political favors (if any) he's already sold to unsavory clientele.

Other than that, you're right. It's too soon to judge. The first casualty of anything is always the truth.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

It's always someone else's fault.

Everything the name "Trump" touches dies.

It has a world-wide reputation for being synonymous with "corruption."

Personally, I think all braindead Republican wantabes are under the influence of . . . something.

Who, in their right mind, wants to go down with a sinking ship?

I doubt the words "rocks Trump White House."

It's more like business as usual.

Not that it's important in the grand scheme of things but it appears FISH has been boxed into a corner.

I think it's time to move on.

FISH

Why do you think Scooter Libby went to prison?

These are all just honest questions. I'm just trying to figure out if you actually know the difference between a lie and the truth.

correction: Iraq had WMD?

Do you believe the Yellowcake receipt was real?

FISH

Do you still believe that Iran had WMD?

CORKY @ #15

Trump and Putin are of the same mindset. Soldiers are expendable.

FISH, again, you poor sucker. If you believe that, you're a majority of one.

Things are going to get very lonesome for you after November 3rd.

FISH, you poor sucker. If you're blind to all the corruption that's going on right under your nose, I'm going to assume that you're one of those people who enjoy suffering. It's more the pity.

TRUTHY

"The president cannot violate the law, literally"

He's literally doing a pretty good job of it right now. The DOJ is too compromised to stop him. The Congress is terrified out of their gord. The U.S. Supreme Court is bought & paid for. His staff is a bunch of bobbleheads.

And the midterms have turned D.C. into a blood sport.

Trump isn't a lawyer. He can only express his non-professional opinion to the DOJ. So, it's not Trump who is violating the law - or the spirit of the law - it's the DOJ who is shirking their duty as the professionals to make a judgement call.

I remember when Bill Barr decided the President had taken things one step too far . . . and resigned to avoid getting caught in any legal blowback. It would appear that Todd Blanch has no such moral character and is risking, at some later time, being prosecuted himself.

I wonder if he knows that.