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Could Trump be pulling a Lex Luthor Insanity defence

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Bleepey

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You're a curious one aren't you.
https://youtu.be/GTh5cut5S6U

Yeah. I know tyt. But I was thinking, look at all the shady shit Trump has done. How he may have tried to kill his presidency before getting elected according to people like Michael Moore. He realises he is in deep shit and would be going to jail if he is put on trial. Now imagine this, imagine if a lot of of his crazy hijinks is a way he can plead insanity as part of his final Trump card to ensure he doesn't see time. I can see him pulling it off
 
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Nah, I believe that if it comes to it, he'll just go like Nixon did while striking a deal with the Republicans. They need his base and he needs to not be jailed.
 
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I can't imagine his ego allowing that. Having to act out the rest of his life as someone he'd mock? I don't see it.
 
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If he gets impeached, which won't happen (we got four to eight years of this, "get over it"), there will be lawsuits.

If he quits, there will be lawsuits.

When he retires there will be lawsuits.
 
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Tagyhag said:
Nah, I believe that if it comes to it, he'll just go like Nixon did while striking a deal with the Republicans. They need his base and he needs to not be jailed.
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No president would arrest his predecessor. It would set a terrible precedent for them personally.
 
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I feel like Trump is less Lex Luthor and more Bizarro. Would explain why he keeps tweeting the opposite of what the White House says the day before.
 
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Cenk/TYT has nothing to do with this for those who don't watch the video. Roger Stone is apparently the one who started and is perpetuating this, Cenk is just calling out the nonsense.
 
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I imagined him faking some kind of illness to avoid leaving the job in shame, but I just couldn't see him keeping up the facade without cracking.
 
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He wouldn't be able to pull it off and more to the point no one would take him seriously. The main benefit would be possible legislation to force and independent medical/mental fitness exam for president which I'd support.
 
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Carter Page is.
He is putting in footnotes to his letters to the government that point to songs on youtube.
 
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You are giving Trump way too much credit.

Edit: Also I just learned that spelling 'defense' with a 'c' instead of a 's' is a British thing. Thank you Google.
 
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Stop. Trying. To. Rationalize. His. Behavior.

He is just a fucking idiot who's never been held accountable his entire life, who now occupies the most important job in the world that can actually put his ass to the fire for once.

He's an idiot. That's all he is (amongst other things, but you get the point).
 
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Pretty much everything trump does makes sense when you try to imagine what a third grade child would do.
 
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water_wendi

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TheOfficeMut said:
Stop. Trying. To. Rationalize. His. Behavior.

He is just a fucking idiot who's never been held accountable his entire life, who now occupies the most important job in the world that can actually put his ass to the fire for once.

He's an idiot. That's all he is (amongst other things, but you get the point).
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Its not rationalizing his behavior. Its looking at what narrative Roger Stone is pushing. i dont know about you but before Roger Stone said it ive never heard anyone talk about how Trump might have Alzheimers. i agree with Cenk that this sounds like trying to create a defense.
 
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water_wendi said:
Its not rationalizing his behavior. Its looking at what narrative Roger Stone is pushing. i dont know about you but before Roger Stone said it ive never heard anyone talk about how Trump might have Alzheimers. i agree with Cenk that this sounds like trying to create a defense.
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Rationalize by creating a defense, it's all the same to me. That's what I'm implying. No, he simply is out of his league and does not know what to do.
 
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I feel like someday we are going to find out that Trump was on a Michael Jackson style drug regimen. There are times where he appears to be high as a kite on amphetamines, and other times he is just a goofy space cadet. It's either that or full dementia.
 
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Such a good episode.
 
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The Exploder said:
I feel like someday we are going to find out that Trump was on a Michael Jackson style drug regimen. There are times where he appears to be high as a kite on amphetamines, and other times he is just a goofy space cadet. It's either that or full dementia.
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im inclined to agree with OfficeMutt that this is just Trumps reaction to being thrown into the deep end. Hes a person who has never had to really work a day in his life. From childhood on up all he has had to do was tell people what to do and they did it.
 
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There

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This is who he is, this is who he is in private, and in public. If he had any intelligence he wouldn't need a "I'm crazy" defense.
 
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Stop giving this dude more credit for his intelligence than is due. Guy is fucking up every damn week and shooting himself in the foot more than anything else, its not 4D chess. Fuck.
 
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I honestly think he has dementia. He's always been an asshole, but now he's an asshole with dementia.
 
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Trump, like McCain and the rest of the Republicans, want to get rid of the inheritance tax. They are all old, evil men who will die soon and want to leave as much as possible to their children. In Trump's case, he also has to worry because a lot of his assets could be seized due to money laundering as well.

This isn't some grand scheme to avoid jail. This is what happens when a man with early signs of dementia is undergoing the stress of having to work for the first time in his life and having his criminal empire on the verge of collapse.
 
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bengraven said:
If he gets impeached, which won't happen (we got four to eight years of this, "get over it"), there will be lawsuits.

If he quits, there will be lawsuits.

When he retires there will be lawsuits.
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It's shocking that someone thinks he might be able to get reelected at this point.
 
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Nothing is going to happen. Might as well bunker down. All this talk, all these investigations, nothing is going to come of it.

We keep moving from one thing to the next and none of it moving toward anything.
 
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As a kid, I could totally accept superman as plausible, but I could never accept that people would actually elect Luthor as president. He's the baddie! Why would you vote for him?!?!

Only when Trump was elected did I accept it was plausible.
 
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LewieP said:
As a kid, I could totally accept superman as plausible, but I could never accept that people would actually elect Luthor as president. He's the baddie! Why would you vote for him?!?!

Only when Trump was elected did I accept it was plausible.
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Well Lex Luthor is competent
 
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LewieP said:
As a kid, I could totally accept superman as plausible, but I could never accept that people would actually elect Luthor as president. He's the baddie! Why would you vote for him?!?!

Only when Trump was elected did I accept it was plausible.
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Everything seems to be in play these days.
 
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I'm pretty sure Trump's strategy isn't based on a comic-book villain, no.

But I've been wrong before.
 
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I think he's too fucking stupid to think ahead 10 seconds, much less over multiple months.
 
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