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(25,609 posts)I'm afraid of...
Send him to a hospital for the criminally insane!
Best_man23
(5,087 posts)He's getting bad advice, because conditions in many hospitals used to house the criminally insane are worse than an actual prison.
His better option would be to face the music and hope his trial is assigned to one of his sympathetic "judges".
Ocelot II
(119,920 posts)You have to be either unable to control your behavior (you didn't know what you were doing), or you don't realize your act was wrong or unlawful. TFG knew damn well what he was doing, and he didn't care whether it was wrong or illegal. TFG is mentally messed up - he's a psychopath and a narcissist - but he's not psychotic.
Irish_Dem
(55,825 posts)He is a ruthless psychopath, paranoid and narcissist.
But not floridly psychotic to the point of NGRI.
relayerbob
(6,947 posts)He would never accept it.
in2herbs
(3,053 posts)then negotiating to spend the rest of his life at Mar-a-Lardo. His SS detail and presidential pension won't be stripped from him. All he'd need is a full time nursing staff. And, when climate change damages/destroys his Mar-a-Lardo he'll get gov't money for repairs. Even if he is ordered to have no phone or internet access and never to leave Mar-a-Lardo and is stripped of his Trump investments he will live a comfortable life having done what he does best --- screw everyone who has ever worked for him.
relayerbob
(6,947 posts)Will be more like Howard Hughes, would be my guess.
Takket
(22,417 posts)maxsolomon
(34,894 posts)He actually could try to make a case based on that diagnosis.
Does it mean he's "Mentally Ill" or "Insane"? Doubtful. He still knows right from wrong.
lindysalsagal
(22,275 posts)He thinks morals are for sissies. That's why the church bible thumpers adore him.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)There is no other excuse. And it is a bullshit excuse as well.
lindysalsagal
(22,275 posts)FakeNoose
(35,276 posts)Are his loyal followers insane too? All the ChumpHumpers in Congress? The idiots who participated the Insurrection/Big Lie? Because they ALL KNEW they were doing the bidding of an insane person, and they all did it anyway.
We'll need to lock up almost 70 million people. How do we do that?