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Hey Look! George Conway Has Some Thoughts On Trump This Morning!

He thinks Donald Trump might not always be telling the truth.

By Joe Patrice on March 21, 2019 10:42 am

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Today is, after all, a day that ends in “y,” so George Conway has some thoughts on Trump’s ongoing seminar on failing your way to the top.

Earlier in the week, we learned that Trump calls George Conway a “total loser,” which ranks up there with “poopyhead” in the pantheon of insults. Of all Trump phenomena, one of the most underrated is his inability to craft even a remotely clever insult twinned with how well his remedial third-grader jabs play to his crowd. Say what you will about Rush Limbaugh, but that guy could always craft an entertaining attack line.

But I digress. Today’s menu of delicious Conway goodness continues to focus on the pathology of Trump — specifically that he’s suffering from a mental breakdown that brings on compulsive lying — a thread Conway raised earlier in the week:

Armchair analysis isn’t really cool. Actually, analysts usually sit in armchairs so that doesn’t really work, does it? You get the point. Psychologically profiling people from afar and without a psychology degree is… not great. Still, Conway’s pathologizing isn’t quite as important as his diagnosis of the symptoms:

This tracks. When disgraced goons like Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz go on TV and call the prospect of a Trump deposition a “perjury trap,” they’re not only peddling a cynical misunderstanding of the law to a lay audience who will internalize it without scrutiny, they’re telegraphing that they can’t imagine any interview under oath with Trump that wouldn’t involve perjury.

In another tweet, Conway points out that “He lies, as we have seen, about everything, about matters big and small, about things that matter and things that don’t,” which certainly sounds compulsive.

But Conway’s open to other interpretations too:

Though for all of his effort on the Twitter machines trying to build some sort of solid case against Trump’s mental fitness for Conway’s cohort of Fed Soc buddies hoping for a 25th Amendment escape hatch to usher in the “1000 Year Pence,” Conway is able to appreciate that sometimes Occam’s Razor applies.

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