Events around Donald Trump are swirling fast and furious and he is about to find himself “going through some things” as he is wont to say.
He might very well get indicted. He could get indicted by the Department of Justice, subsequent to a criminal referral by the January 6 Committee. Or, Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia may be the one that finally indicts Trump for one of his many misdeeds.
Mary Trump knows her uncle only too well and she predicts that when and if he is indicted that he will go bonkers, in full on Trump style. He’ll blame anybody and everybody but never the one person who is bottom line responsible for his woes: himself. Below you will see the prediction that legal experts believe Trump might plead insanity. That would be the icing on the cake, if this Trump freak show ends with the MAGA god himself admitting that he is out of his mind in order to save his skin.
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said he believes Trump will be indicted for his role in last year’s insurrection.
“Guns have been smoking all around Donald Trump for years,” Kirschner said in a video posted to YouTube earlier this month. “And for whatever reason, there have been no criminal charges yet brought against Donald Trump.”
“That will change. It has to change if we care about the survival of our democracy. He will be indicted,” Kirschner predicted.
Former DC police officer Michael Fanone who was beaten during the riot said he believes there’s “ample probable cause” to arrest and indict Trump. Meanwhile, a majority of Americans, or 58%, said last month in a poll that they believe the former president bears a “good” or “great” amount of responsibility for the insurrection and should be criminally charged. […]
If formal charges are brought against Trump, there are many strategies his legal team might employ in an attempt to clear him. His lawyers might choose to plead insanity or argue that he genuinely believed the 2020 presidential election was rigged, legal experts told Insider.
Swirl that one through your grey matter and see if it sparkles. Imagine that. A former United States president admitting to the world that he was barking mad when he ordered his thug supporters to march on the Capitol. Can you see that? Admittedly, it is difficult to believe, but if cornered, he might be advised to plead that way.
That would put the GOP in one hell of an interesting pickle, now wouldn’t it? They had every indication that the man was off his rocker during the primaries but they let him stay in the race and put him at the top of the ticket anyway and refused to remove him after pussy-gate, and even after two impeachments.
As to Trump having a genuine, if mistaken, belief that the election was rigged, c’mon. There is zero evidence. If Trump insists on listening to the Mike Lindells and Sidney Powells of the world, then yes, that is fodder for an insanity defense and he just might bring it off. Too bad stupidity and evil intent aren’t defenses, Trump has no problem proving up those.
This will be one for the books if it happens. I say discount nothing when it comes to Trump. If history has taught us anything, it has taught us that whatever we think we know today is only the tip of the iceberg and anything is possible.
Nice scenario but completely unlikely to ever happen.
His legal team may think he’s barking mad (along with a large chunk of the population of the world) but he considers himself to be a ‘stable genius’ and his narcissism would never allow him to accept the fact that he’s as nutty as a fruit cake
They may try for an ‘unfit to plead’ entry – but that would mean that Don the Con would miss another opportunity for grandstanding and more promulgation of ‘politically motivated witch hunt’ (despite the fact that the witch is no longer being hunted but caught in a corner
I agree. His ego won’t let him plead insanity. Unless he can somehow spin it into a game for the base, and grift off it, then I can see him doing it.
It might give them a way to NOT nominate him, though.
It is not unusual for narcissistic psychopaths to try an insanity plea. It is easy for them to spin it in their thoughts into being more clever then the rest of the world. It would also give good reason to nullify all of his judge appointments which he would love to do to screw Mitch McConnell and other people who did not help him enough.
It’s not that “Guns have been smoking all around Donald Trump for years” , it’s that Dimwit Donny has spent his life inhabiting an entire smouldering arsenal without any ‘ammo cook-off’ affecting him.
And this is about to change.
Madness certainly, actual insanity certainly not.
Rampant stupidity is not insanity which is why so many criminals live in prison. I hope someone clues diaper don to this fact. I realize he doesn’t have any A, B, or C list attorneys but even the F listers he does have ought to know this little factoid.
Some of them aren’t too bright themselves.
I remain firmly convinced getting one’s J.D. has got to be about as difficult as opening a box of Cracker Jacks…which is where I also think some of those degrees come from.
Remember what Cheney said “no rational or sane man”…….inferring 45 was not rational nor sane. There’s his exit strategy. I’ve been saying this for a couple weeks. His family will have him declared, if they can.
I have wondered about that. That would be a good out, that poor Donald simply got beyond himself but again, the problem is his ego and selling it to the base. Or, maybe the base will become inconsequential if things get problematic enough.
IF-and it’s a capital IF-his family or anyone tried to declare The Donald as unfit to stand trial, he would have to sit for a psychological evaluation, which is highly unlikely. Unless they told him it was a test for geniuses like him and it would be a chance to show all the Never tRumpers how stupid they are in comparison to him…THEN he might agree to be tested. But any reputable psychologist or psychiatrist would never dupe anyone into believing the test was anything but what it really was. Maybe he’ll run off more lawyers and decide to represent himself. Now THAT would be a clown show! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Maybe he should bring John Hinckley down to Mar A Lago for a little chat about day-to-day life in the psychiatric hospital. Trump might envision a special suite (and he would be in a special section and by special I’m not being snarky) with all sorts of amenities “the real, actually crazy people” (as he’d put it) don’t get. Like the set-up Manafort had arranged for himself down at Northern Neck but way, way fancier – at least until ole Paul fucked up and got greedy and shot off his mouth because he wanted to be closer to DC. Remember how the judge blew a gasket when all those nice conditions Manafort had bribed for himself got uncovered? No, I don’t think Trump would last long at all even in a special access wing of a psychiatric hospital.
Mentally ill does not equal insane. There are thousands of mentally ill folks in prison. I also don’t think his ego would allow such a defense, even if it meant certain conviction. It’s a shame that it takes until someone is in their 70s to learn that actions have consequences.
My guess is that he will plead that he really, really throught the election was rigged, stolen, corrupted etc. and that it was his overwhelming love for the good ol’ USA that drove him to act the way he did. He did it for the country! For America!
He is not insane, just a delusional sociopath who thinks he can get away with anything because he always has.
Having run psychiatric admissions at Duke & another hospital, there is a huge difference between legitimate mental illness & venal corruption. The first group deserves compassion. The second a prison cell.
Of course he’s crazy as a coot, maybe even a whole flock of coots, but “legally insane” is pretty tightly defined … and he wouldn’t meet that standard.
Insanity defenses usually fail.
Remember Andrea Yates,,who crowned her children. She actually was insane,on antipsychotic meds,,and hospitalized many times, yet in TX was originally found guilty before her retrial.
The man sight on rule says in order to be LEGALLY insane you must not know what you did was wrong, and do.it any way. Doesn’t matter that you have a diagnosis of mental.illness like schizophrenia or bipolar. With Yates, one of the facts that got her convicted was that she knew to call the police,,which meant she knew what she was doing was wrong and did it anyway.
Trump isn’t such a good actor that he could convince a jury that he didn’t know it was,wrong to alloe,armed men into the Ellipse to hear his speech and then send them to the Capitol. Armed men plus marching orders make it clear he knew it was,wrong to do so.
More important,,Fat Boy thinks too highly of himself to.plead insanity.
Unfortunately he believed that, as president, everything he did was ‘right’ (up to and including believing he won the election and that he should be still living rent free on Pennsylvania Avenue)