The five Stages of Trump's Mendacity

[Nancy Waterman]

1. It didn't happen
2. If it did, I never heard about it (or I never knew him)
3. No one told me
4. Fake news. The media is trying to destroy me.
5. If it happened, it doesn't really matter.

If it is about his action in particular, like the Ukraine extortion plot, skip numbers 2 and 3. But this denial that it happened morphing to an attack on the media or the intelligence community for saying it, and then minimizing the impact works for most of his scandals.

Payoffs to Stormy Daniels
Russian meddling in the election (we never knew any Russians, etc.)
Trump Junior letter being dictated by Trump
Ukraine extortion scheme
Being informed about Covid
Russian Bounties on American soldiers

According to Trump and his propaganda machine: they never happened, no one told him, fake news is trying to hurt him, and then, it's not important anyway.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. And anyone who brings it up is "nasty"

[Nay]

2. He uses DARVO, from the abusers' playbook.

Deny

--no one told me
--it didn't happen
--I never heard about it

Attack

--fake news
--those ppl are nasty
--sleepy Joe
--her emails

Reverse the Victim and Offender

--I'm the LONE WARRIOR
--All Lives Matter
--they are lying

[Nancy Waterman]

4. Excellent!!

And to add to the victim role, they are trying to destroy me (with the truth).

[crickets]

7. +1

[SoonerPride]

3. The Narcissist's Prayer

[Nancy Waterman]

5. This is really excellent too

Thanks for posting this.

[Nay]

6. Love this! nt