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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat if dementia is Trumps's exit strategy?
Trump knows he’s done for in the courts if loses the election. He’ll have to sit through endless proceedings or be jailed outright. No kind of life for Trump.
Trump is no fool (oh stop it).He’s thinking about alternate endings. Maybe he figures an acceptable outcome is the quiet life of a mental patient in home care at Mar a Lago. Maybe he’s playing his own version of multi level chess and is simultaneously trying to steal the election, AND developing an insanity or diminished capacity defense .
His base doesn’t care that he appears to be declining, that he’s displaying signs of incipient dementia. They see it as schtick. He knows this.
Normals see that schtick as classic symptoms of a number of disorders, including dementia. Dementia is a disease. We treat people with mental disorders differently, with compassion.
What if Trump is banking on that compassion to result in sentencing that takes his ‘condition’ into account and remands him to some kind of mental disorder treatment facility. And eventually to in-home care with only the best therapists, doctors, and nurses, at some nice, secure facility appropriate for the compassionate confinement of an ex President. You know, someplace like Mar a Lago. Doctor Ronnie Jackson in attendance.
What if Donald Trump’s recent ramping up the crazy is all part of a nefarious back up plan. It’s brilliant really. Ramping up the crazy works for his base. It also works to establish a dementia defense.
At this point we know anything is possible. We know that Trump is a wily bastard. It makes sense for us to suppose that he’s got an exit strategy. This one is at least as plausible as escape to a glamorous penthouse in Abu Dhabi, or somewhat less grand accommodations in Venezuela.

PJMcK
(23,420 posts)Good plan.
Do you think Trump is really that crafty? I don’t.
He has repeatedly confessed to his various crimes on tv!
He’s an idiot. He can’t plan his lunch menu.
Bobstandard
(1,854 posts)He’s slipped through so many cracks in the system for so long that we’re forced to admit, he’s pretty good at what he does. I think he goes into projects and situations thinking, of course, about ‘what’s in it for me?’. At the same time, I think, he’s considering how he’ll shirk responsibility if this or that goes wrong.
So not crafty. Maybe not wily. But thinking about an exit strategy? I’m pretty sure yes.
It’s fun to speculate what it or they might be. As in a Tom Clancy or Lee Childs thriller.
Irish_Dem
(67,311 posts)He is a narcissistic sociopath.
Pulling this kind of con would be typical of a sociopath.
But narcissists hate to do anything deliberately that will make them look bad or cause humiliation.
I also don't think he is that good of an actor.
And he is lazy.
So I think not.
But anything is possible with Trump and his staff.
Bobstandard
(1,854 posts)You’d change your mind if it turned out that ‘the dementia defense’ turned out to be the plan! Right? I know. The notion is so absurd it made me laugh.
Your arguments are persuasive.
Irish_Dem
(67,311 posts)This is how science works.
As you get more data, you change, modify, or even discard your theory.
Right now I am speculating in an educated way based upon clinical research
about how the personality disorders behave and interact with others. And a
psychological profile of Trump which includes his adult functional level and history.
And family reports.
Mz Pip
(28,047 posts)If only.
Trump will run until he dies.
C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)The mafia don would wander around aimlessly in Little Italy in a bathrobe and pajamas as an insanity defense.
Source:
https://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/04/07/gigante/
LeftInTX
(32,761 posts)He's got everything he wants.
Stinky The Clown
(68,551 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)Klarkashton
(3,238 posts)What happens.
LeftInTX
(32,761 posts)If you are correct, you will win $1billion USD
chowder66
(10,308 posts)onenote
(45,053 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 9, 2024, 11:29 PM - Edit history (1)
Assuming -- and let's all hope we're right -- he loses. And he fails to overturn the result. His trials move forward. They will take a long time--particularly with appeals. So before he faces any kind of justice it will be quite a while. And I'm sure he is convinced he will prevail in the long run because of the Supreme Court. In the meantime, he's out free except for on those days he has to be in a courtroom. When he's not in a courtroom, he's out holding rallies, soaking in the love of his maniacal fanatics, spewing his lies, playing the victim and, most importantly, scamming them out of money for nonsense merchandise and "legal fund" donations.
Bobstandard
(1,854 posts)He’ll be happy staying in the pubic eye so he can continue his pity party, and keep grifting off his followers.
JoseBalow
(7,124 posts)He has spent his entire life building up a delusional facade of what he believes is perfection. To deliberately try to tear that down goes against every fiber of his pathetic self-absorbed being.
Someone else, maybe. But drumpf? Impossible.
scipan
(2,776 posts)Not just the humiliation but the loss of control when he gets put in a "memory center". I can't imagine him doing it.