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Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein says we have to look at former President Donald Trump in a different context and calls Trump America's "own war criminal" that we've never seen before.
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(480 posts)He's a committed and calculating liar. There is a huge difference. Suggesting that Trump is delusional implies that he's in the grips of an uncontrolable mental disorder. He is not. He's fully aware of what he is doing. It's a technique. As a committed liar you never admit to the lie. And some, hopefully a politically effective number of people, will believe you. I suspected this is something he learned from Roy Cohn.
Here's a Billy Bush, the guy on the bus (Grab them by the ...." that one, another guy whose life was ruined by the presence of Trump, relating an off camera conversation with Trump that makes it very clear that Trumps lying is a technique which he is fully aware of.
Jump to 4:37 in the video if it doesn't start there as I had hoped.
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