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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 09:07 AM Mar 2017

John Dean regarding Trump: "he's delusional"



DSM-5 (Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders):
Delusions are fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. Their content may include a variety of themes (e.g. persecutory, referential, somatic, religious, grandiose).[…] Delusions are deemed bizarre if they are clearly implausible and not understandable to same-culture peers and do not derive from ordinary life experiences. […] The distinction between a delusion and a strongly held idea is sometimes difficult to make and depends in part on the degree of conviction with which the belief is held despite clear or reasonable contradictory evidence regarding its veracity.




You have to wonder if he's using the same winning tactic as Nixon.

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John Dean regarding Trump: "he's delusional" (Original Post) L. Coyote Mar 2017 OP
Trump is living in his own alternative reality Gothmog Mar 2017 #1
John Dean ???????????? Stuart G Mar 2017 #2
A while ago he said, "I've seen this before ...." L. Coyote Mar 2017 #3

Stuart G

(38,427 posts)
2. John Dean ????????????
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 09:18 AM
Mar 2017

Didn't he have to deal with someone who was also..kinda off?
Didn't he have to testify about that someone??
Didn't he say things that were hard to believe??
Didn't people wonder if there was proof to what he said??
Didn't it turn out that there was proof?
Didn't it turn out that he was telling the truth and..........
..........the rest were not telling the truth???

Is the current situation where a few are telling the truth, and.....
..........the rest are not telling the truth....the same as when John Dean testified???


Wait...................................that was 44 years ago.....was it???? or........

44 years??.......1973..to 2017...equals 44 years..is that correct??

google search shows this reference............................
....a United States Senate Watergate Committee - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Watergate_Committee
Hearings opened on May 17, 1973, and the Committee issued its seven-volume, 1,250-page report on June 27, 1974, entitled Report on Presidential Campaign Activities. The first weeks of the committee's hearings were a national politico-cultural event. They were broadcast live during the day on commercial television; at the start, CBS, NBC, and ABC covered them simultaneously, and then later on a rotation basis, while PBS replayed the hearings at night.[7]

am I making all of this up...couldn't be...could it??????

...................yes it is.....lets get a lot of popcorn for the show........

......................

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
3. A while ago he said, "I've seen this before ...."
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 09:23 AM
Mar 2017

my paraphrasing about the cover-up aspect of trump's White House.

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