While Trump’s boasts of sexual assault are loathsome, it is ironic that his sexism brought him down more than his assaults on liberty and justice. What happens to the rule of law when a presidential candidate threatens to throw their opponent in jail? When he lies even about things that are easily verified to be false, and yet continues to lie about them with impunity and often gets away with it?
We’ve seen it all before, but mostly in dictators, con men, thugs, and sociopaths.
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Could you give reasons you think Trump is NOT a sociopath? We learned the differences between psychopath and sociopath. Trump does fit the sociopath.
If there’s any rigging its coming from the Trump side. Multiple wikileaks from the Clinton side but nothing from Trump? They couldn’t find anything????
And notice the rumour mongering style of “multiple” sources?https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/788369924175441920
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/09/politics/donald-trump-conspiracy-many-people-are-saying/
First off Ebdoug here are 16 key behavioral aspects of sociopath per psychology today:
Superficial charm and good intelligence
Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations
Unreliability
Untruthfulness and insincerity
Lack of remorse and shame
Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
General poverty in major affective reactions
Specific loss of insight
Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
Fantastic and uninviting behavior with alcohol and sometimes without
Suicide threats rarely carried out
Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
Failure to follow any life plan
The lack of remorse or shame is particularly telling, but the Untruthfulness and insincerity are spot on.
Wiki leaks main purpose at the present is to bring Cinton down. We need some really really bigly good hackers on the other side to find more Trump dirt. And most of all his tax returns. I’m thinking there are more sexual assault victims out there as well that need to step into the light. My own versions of sexual assault are very minor but I still don’t talk about them, so I understand the reluctance. But if it were Trump, I would hope that I would be able to tell the story.
I agree with you Dave, thanks
It is important to remember that everyone has an agenda. I say this as someone who has strongly supported WikiLeaks in the past, but it appears that Assange has made this personal. He has never hidden his dislike of Clinton (nor she of him). Perhaps he thinks that he could work a deal with Trump that would buy him his freedom from the Ecuadorian embassy.
Regardless of that speculation, I can see why Ecuador cut off his internet, while reaffirming their commitment to granting him asylum. As they explained in their statement, Ecuador does not like the way Assange is interfering in the US election. After all, Ecuador has a left-wing government and Trump is certainly not a leftie, and his ties to Russia must be giving them heartburn. Not to mention the evidence that it is Russian state hackers who are feeding documents to Assange.
As for rumors that the US State department pressured Ecuador to cut off Assange’s internet, that assumes that the State department is stupid enough to think that cutting off Assange would stop WikiLeaks from releasing any more documents.
Jonah, IK, here is a link concerning some of the wiki leaks authenticity.
http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635
It covers an Email supposedly from Sidney Blumenthal, a person directly under Hillary Clinton and follows the trail back to the actual source.