Trump's rambling answer to the Jan. 6 committee shows his weakness

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Trump's deranged rant in response to the 1/6 committee shows how precarious his position truly is. Now that he faces a subpoena, testifying would force him to choose between admitting crimes or perjuring himself. Either puts him in danger, experts tell me.

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Opinion | Trump’s rambling answer to the Jan. 6 committee shows his weakness
Why Trump will face serious danger if he ever agrees to testify.
10:31 AM · Oct 14, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/14/trump-jan-6-committee-subpoena-justice-department/

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In response to the Jan. 6 committee’s vote on Thursday to issue a subpoena for his testimony, former president Donald Trump released a rambling, seemingly unhinged reply that doesn’t answer whether he intends to testify.

When the committee formally subpoenas Trump, there will be very good reason for him to turn it down, or at least continue blustering to delay answering whether he’ll comply, as his new response does.

The web of illusions Trump has spun around Jan. 6 can’t survive contact with a legitimate, fact-based, rules-bound process. But not testifying is also problematic: It admits to fear of facing genuine questioning, which looks weak. So, Trump must try for as long as possible to inhabit a gray area where he blusters about owning his enemies on the committee while avoiding testifying to the committee at all costs.

Trump’s new response, a three-page letter that he plainly dictated while his lawyers cringed in the background, is aimed at fitting this bill. In a stream of delusion and megalomania, it rehashes all kinds of grievances, most prominently the lie of the stolen 2020 election. This is supposed to show Trump “owning” the committee while refraining from conceding that he does not plan to answer its direct questions.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Keep up the pressure and he is going to unravel even more.

Keep up the truth bombs and saying NO to him.

[Gaugamela]

2. It's kind of fun watching him squirm as he slowly roasts on the spit.

It’s a good time of year to throw another log on the fire.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. That's not a letter. That's a dump of some psychiatrists' notepad.

[sarcasmo]

4. A Trump manifesto was to be expected. The first 14 pages is a rough draft :) .

[ultralite001]

5. Confabulation...

"filling in of gaps in memory through the creation of false memories by an individual who is affected with a memory disorder (as Korsakoff syndrome) and is unaware that the fabricated memories are inaccurate and false." -- Merriam-Webster Medical...

More and more the RTumpster's rants sound like those of my demented father... Vascular dementia impaired his once fine mental faculties. Catch him in a lie... Confront him with a fact... Remind him of a truth... He would wind the most elaborate tales, knitting the fact and fiction into a story that on its surface would seem plausible.

To those on the outside, my father seemed fine -- jolly, gregarious, a wonderful storyteller. However, on closer examination, the stories were full of holes, like the parts of his brain that had been eroded by his disease.

Enabling RTump's fictions is no service -- either to himself or the American people. The RTumpster needs to be placed where his ramblings will no longer affect the minds and hearts of others -- and his enablers be damned...

[Cha]

6. Exactly.. Perjury or Admitting the

crime.. and hasn't he already admitted it by saying.. ".. they're Not here to hurt me" ? Adn, Not trying to Stop it?!

And, what's up with the SS Not putting potus on LOCKDOWN?

In Addition to all the Proof the J6C has uncovered over the last years.