This is a knockout punch against Donald Trump

| 11:03 pm EDT July 21, 2022
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Moment by moment. Minute by minute. Second, by second, we saw for ourselves the undeniable evidence of Donald Trump’s sociopathy. This was perhaps the most dizzying hearing that has aired. But it just might be the most important as well.

January 6 was a day of infinite horror. And what did we see from the man who would be President? Nothing. That is so important. The surprise that so many on Trump’s team showed as they recounted how they asked — they begged — they pleaded — for their President — the many they TRUSTED — to do something — say something — show some damn sign of humanity.

They might as well have been talking to a grain of sand, to a wall. They were asking for the impossible. We here at Palmer Report have spoken about Trump’s malignant narcissism — his sadism. Bill Palmer has talked about it. Robert Harrington and Lorraine Evanoff have spoken about it, as have I and many others here. But Trump’s team – many of them — obviously didn’t know.

Their surprise clearly shows that they had no idea that the man they worked for and trusted was ill. He was and is ill with the disease of indifference. Trump is incapable of caring about another human being. Perhaps these staff members fooled themselves. For many of us, the evidence was so obvious for so very long.

But people can only see when the blinders are off. If one can’t imagine it, one cannot believe it. Perhaps they just couldn’t imagine. That is why their shock was so great. All of them held the same puzzled look on their faces as if they had been attacked by a wild bear. They pleaded. Why couldn’t he answer?

He couldn’t answer because he couldn’t hear them. He couldn’t hear them because they did not exist for him. Nothing does — except himself — and violence — bloody violence. Let us never refer to Trump as the former President again. Let us call him what he really is. President Narcissist should be what we call him. It is the only name — the only title — that even makes sense.