Trump was 'CONFUSED' when others in the White House weren't as 'delighted' about Capitol violence.

[TheBlackAdder]

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During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt this Friday, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) was asked about his assessment of President Donald Trump's behavior and culpability in the run-up to and after the storming of the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob of Trump supporters on January 6.

Sasse said that the mob was "incited by the President of the United States," adding that Trump is "addicted to division."

"This is a deep brokenness in his soul. ... Donald Trump is a guy who hurts. And I hurt for him at an anthropological and a human level, but at a level of his oath of office to the Constitution, the duty of the president of the United States is to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution," Sasse said. "And the President is addicted to social media and to television, and to division, and he's been lying to the American people for eight straight weeks and planned it long before. No matter what was happening in any state, he was going to say the election was being stolen, and the people needed to rise up."
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Later in the interview, Sasse claimed that as Trump was watching his supporters storm the Capitol, he "was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren't as excited as he was as you had rioters pushing against Capitol Police trying to get into the building."

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-2649792525/

CONFUSED -- LET THAT SINK IN!

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[RockRaven]

1. Duh! He's a psychopath. No empathy. Cannot understand other people's experiences/emotions.

Literally incapable of it. Always has been, always will be.

[Raster]

5. Narcissistic sociopath...

https://signalscv.com/2020/09/jonathan-kraut-sociopaths-narcissists-and-their-victims/

The combining of the personality traits narcissism and sociopathology are an extremely dangerous mix that creates untold suffering. In my experience working with more than 1,000 domestic violence victims over the past 25 years, the most common pair of abuser traits by far are these two.

Narcissists include those who claim their uninformed views supersede the opinions of experts and professionals. Narcissists blame others, to include unseen conspirators, for their every misdeed and misfortune, all while exalting themselves as the savior from evil and ruin. Narcissists proclaim to know everything about everything, while they portray others as weak, unfit and undeserving.

Sociopaths see themselves as above the law while holding others to standards and rules from which he or she is immune and exempt. Sociopaths are proud “not to follow the norm,” yet are the first to scream when someone else strays from a guideline or procedure. They lie and deceive endlessly, label opponents with derogatory nicknames, and have little empathy for the feelings or suffering of “outsiders.”

Sociopaths frequently invent and then target “enemies” in order to assume the role as the “protector” of those who show to them loyalty.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. Trump doesn't possess even this level of empathy.

[mr_lebowski]

2. What he's addicted to is the feeling of affirmation he's gets from a lot of people liking him ...

That people were willing to put their lives in danger for him is an even bigger thrill than his rallies full of adoring throngs.

The division is probably more of a means to an end ... the only people he's going to attract are the sort that love the division, so he gives it to them.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. I have always said Trump fully intends to be the dictator of the US. not surprising at all.

[dalton99a]

4. "Enjoy the show, dammit! Wait for the finale where we kill all the Democrats in the Capitol"

[PatSeg]

7. That's terrifying

What is even more terrifying is that others in the White House were surprised by his behavior. What planet have they been living on? This is who he is and always has been. And obviously he really did want his rabid supporters to storm the Capitol. Geez.

[IowaGuy]

8. "...he's been lying to the American people for eight straight weeks..." ??

8 weeks?? Is ol' Ben just mathematically challenged or just a completely out of touch delusional gas bag trying to cover his own complicit ass? Reserving the possibility that both could be simultaneously true.

[MagickMuffin]

9. I think he was referencing the Election

Of course every time the President opens his mouth lies just flood out.

[Sogo]

10. He better be voting FOR impeachment,

after words like that!!