This is just a brief comment. No doubt you’re hearing about the taped conversation between Trump and Georgia officials right now. The FULL recording is now available HERE.
Fredo-Lay unloads his verbal diarrhea for an hour. An hour. It is 100% coherent, shows clear intent, and full understanding of present circumstances and surroundings.
He is not crazy. There is no appreciable mental decline evident in the call, at least nothing beyond what he had before he got in office.
In fact, the hour long call is a textbook example of pure unadulterated MOB SPEAK. Trump isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer but he still knows where to apply the pressure. He never fully incriminates himself in the call, never out and out reveals anything beyond what we already know.
I am tired of the navel-gazing mental health assessments of his behavior when any halfway literate understanding of organized crime is all the explanation you need. People are trying to assess his behavior because they are determined to interpret his actions through a political and ‘rational’ lens. He is not a politician. And he is not rational in the way that we want so badly to interpret behavior from a public figure.
As a high level capo in an organized crime outfit, his behavior is not only rational it’s textbook: Kemp was supposed to ‘deliver’ Georgia. He did not. Mob boss doesn’t understand why and won’t stop asking until he gets an answer he likes.
Make no mistake, this is a man in full enough command of his faculties — even after having COVID — to try and shake down government officials.
Stop for a moment and ask yourself — is Trump really more mentally unfit than Ted Cruz or, eek, Louie Gohmert?
I don’t ever want to hear another word about him being crazy or mentally unfit ever again.
He is a traitor and a criminal and a murderer:
Weissmann knows.