Preening Narcissism

This post is an exception - this is a scrapbook containing only links. But this post is included here only because it's an excellent collection of links on Trump. 

President Trump Is Unfit for This Crisis. Period.  Quote: "His preening narcissism, his compulsive lying, his vindictiveness, his terror of germs and his terrifying inability to grasp basic science..."

Panel Suggests Trump Knew He Lost the Election, Eyeing Criminal Case https://nyti.ms/35qWxX3 quote "Even though none of Mr. Trump’s persistent claims about election fraud turned out to be true, prosecutors will most likely have to grapple with the question of his state of mind at the time — specifically, the issue of whether he believed the claims were true, said Alan Rozenshtein, a former Justice Department official who teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School." 

Extrapolating liberally if I were to rob Barclays Bank, the prosecutor will have to determine if I thought Barclays Bank was my bedroom.

Additional reading

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/06/george-conway-trump-lashed-out-me-twitter-its-because-he-knows-truth/
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pandemic-briefing-focus-himself/2020/04/13/1dc94992-7dd8-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html: Nice with a good video
3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/fascist-dictatorship-trump-second-term/2020/07/10/63fdd938-c166-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html - very nice. Jul 12, 2020
   
4. In Trump’s Marathon Briefings, the Answers and the Message Are Often Contradictory
5. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/george-conway-trump-unfit-office/599128/
6. https://www.theatlantic.com/unthinkable/
7. Donald Trump the Narcissist Is Running the Coronavirus Crisis
8. Why Does Trump Lie?
9. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/opinions/mary-trump-book-opinion-dantonio/index.html
   
10. https://time.com/5704178/trump-character-unfit-office/
    
11. Bill Barr, Not Geoffrey Berman, Should Have Lost His Job This Weekend 
    
12. Donald Trump Is the Best Ever President in the History of the Cosmos : NY Times Op-ed. Vocabulary
    
13. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/29/three-big-takeaways-trumps-awful-new-admission-about-putin/
    
14. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maryanne-trump-barry-secret-recordings/2020/08/22/30d457f4-e334-11ea-ade1-28daf1a5e919_story.html - interesting
    
15. At His Core, Trump Is an Immoralist 
16. Donald Trump: The Worst President in Modern History? 
    
17. In a First, New England Journal of Medicine Joins Never-Trumpers 
18. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden1/
    
19. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/outlook/siskind-list-trump-norms/
    
20. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/rap-sheet-trump-crimes/2020/10/16/c6a539da-0e61-11eb-8a35-237ef1eb2ef7_story.html
    
21. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/23/trump-era-so-far-10-drawings-fewer-than-200-words/
    
22. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/30/state-department-wouldnt-reveal-its-payments-mar-a-lago-heres-how-we-found-them/
    
23. President Trump's Taxes: A Reader’s Guide 444
    
24. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/10/trump-covid-denial/616946/ -Wow
    
25. Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Hurt American Alliances  - Nice
    
26. https://time.com/5907546/america-divided-2020-election/
    
27. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/05/george-conway-trump-election-lies/
    
28. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/ - Great. If Trump contests the election.
    
29. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/lifestyle/magazine/trump-presidential-norm-breaking-list/
    
30. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-white-house-purge/2020/11/13/2af12c94-25ca-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html
31. Lady And The Trump
    
32. https://eand.co/how-many-american-idiots-are-there-73-million-bded995868cf
    
33. Trump Stress-Tested the Election System, and the Cracks Showed
    
34. Over 30 Trump Campaign Lawsuits Have Failed. Some Rulings Are Scathing.
    
35. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/25/trumps-legacy-by-numbers/
    
36. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-lays-the-groundwork-for-a-massive-government-purge-on-his-way-out-the-door/2020/11/30/280519ac-333d-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html
    
37. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/18/biggest-pinocchios-2020/
    
38. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-voter-trust/2020/12/20/00282aa6-407a-11eb-8db8-395dedaaa036_story.html
    
39. President Trump: Unhappy, Unleashed and Unpredictable
    
40. Trump's Most Disgusting Pardons
    
41. https://vbala99.blogspot.com/2020/11/trumps-character.html
    
42. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html and https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html: Phone call recording, Trump talking to Brad about Georgia elections. "There is nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you recalculated,’ the president told Brad Raffensperger". Just like the call where Trump told the Ukrainian president to launch an investigation into the Bidens. If Brad did recalculate, Trump would use that fact to portray a very different story. Full transcript: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html. Quote: "At one point, Trump told the secretary of state: “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes [Biden won the state by 11,779 votes], which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”" Note that Trump STARTS with the belief that he won and hence he is hunting for 11,780 votes. 
43. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/carl-bernstein-believes-tape-of-trump-seeking-votes-from-election-official-is-the-ultimate-smoking-gun-051034190.html
    
44. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/05/trump-keeps-kinda-sorta-admitting-he-lost/
    
45. Trump Is to Blame for Capitol Attack - I now list articles which William Shirer might caption "The beginning of the end"
    
46. Impeach and Convict. Right Now. : Quote "From the moment Trump became the G.O.P. front-runner in 2015, it was obvious who he was and where, if given the chance, he would take America. He was a malignant narcissist in his person. A fraudster in his businesses. A bully in his relationships. And a demagogue in his politics.He did not have ideas. He had bigotries. He did not have a coalition. He had crowds. He did not have character. He had a quality of confident shamelessness, the kind that offered his followers permission to be shameless, too... Every decent society depends for its survival on its ability to be shocked — and stay shocked — by genuinely shocking behavior. Donald Trump’s entire presidency has been an assault on that idea."
47. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-resignations-25th-amendment/2021/01/07/e131ce10-50a3-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html: Quote: "Kelly also seemed to voice regret about Trump’s election. “We need to look infinitely harder at who we elect to any office in our land — at the office seeker’s character, at their morals, at their ethical record, their integrity, their honesty, their flaws, what they have said about women, and minorities, why they are seeking office in the first place, and only then consider the policies they espouse,” Kelly said."
48. The Disgrace on Capitol Hill - Quote: "As for Mr. Trump, to steal some famous words deployed in 1940 against Neville Chamberlain: “In the name of God, go.”" Is this the same paper which believed that impeachment (of Trump) was uncalled for? Whoa.
49. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-republicans-capitol-mob/2021/01/07/f56300ac-5111-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html - Humpty Trumpty starts falling.
    
50. Republicans Splinter Over Whether to Make a Full Break From Trump
    
51. President Trump Criticizes Twitter’s Decision to Ban Personal Account
    
52. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/fox-news-blame-capitol-mob-media/2021/01/07/f15f668a-50ee-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html - Disparaging reference to WSJ
    
53. The Capitol Attack Shocks the World
    
54. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/14/trumps-future-looks-rotten/
    
55. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html
    
56. "In an interview with Fox News, former president Donald Trump said Putin had undertaken the military maneuver “because of a rigged election” in the United States. In the days leading up to Russia’s attack — amid escalating tensions — Trump had praised Putin, saying it was a “smart move” by the Russian president to send “the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen” to the Ukraine border." From Russia launches attack on Ukraine, Biden says
57. ‘This Was Trump Pulling a Putin’
    
58. Woodward and Bernstein thought Nixon defined corruption. Then came Trump.: Comparison with Watergate
    
59. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/13/jan-6-committee-hearing-dangerous-trump/: very nice "In a kind of collective act of self-gaslighting, much of the public has been disarmed by Trump’s tendency to unabashedly project his corruption, as if blithely signaling his intentions somehow drains them of corrupt intent."
    
60. A Day After a Portrait of Pence in Danger, Trump Attacks Him Again
    
61. Trump’s had bad moments, but few worse than Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony: very nice.
    
62. A President Untethered