One day after his pardon meltdown, Donald Trump goes berserk again
Yesterday Donald Trump signaled to us just how much trouble he thinks he’s in, when he began tweeting about the possibility of pardoning himself. That’s the very last card in his deck, and it’s one that legal precedent says he’ll almost certainly lose if he tries to play it. Of course Trump is so unstable, he tends to go back and forth when it comes to his grasp on reality. There was the chance he’d pull back today. Instead he’s decided to go berserk again.
Trump has become obsessed with the idea that because the FBI was investigating the criminal antics of his campaign, it means he was somehow being framed by the FBI. He keeps falsely insisting that an FBI informant who interacted with the campaign was somehow a “spy” that was placed there by President Obama. He’s focused in on two FBI agents in particular, who were having an affair together, which he seems to think is evidence that they were trying to frame him.
Obviously, Trump is mentally unwell. But he only revisits these hallucinations on Twitter whenever circumstances have pushed him into the most mentally unstable of places. This evening he tweeted this: “Wow, Strzok-Page, the incompetent & corrupt FBI lovers, have texts referring to a counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign dating way back to December, 2015. SPYGATE is in full force! Is the Mainstream Media interested yet? Big stuff!”
So now we know that Donald Trump’s rant about pardoning himself yesterday wasn’t merely a one-off meltdown. He’s in the midst of some kind of sustained psychosis that involves an imaginary spy in his campaign, cartoonish conspiracies against him, some kind of Bonnie and Clyde characters, and him having to pardon himself because… well, you know. By tomorrow this guy might well be on the roof of the White House, ranting about how werewolves stole his piñata.
