I remember months ago there were theories that Trump was secretly in cahoots with the Clintons and was trying to destroy the GOP to help the Clintons out.
Now there are theories that he is an unwitting patsy of the Russians. The ex head of the CIA even admitted that Trump is just an unwilling patsy of the Russian government.
Trump to me strikes me as a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder (I know blah blah not a doctor but come on). And with people like that, you can use a mix of flattery and criticism to push/pull them in whatever direction you want. So to me, it probably wouldn’t be that hard for someone clever and powerful to push/pull Trump wherever they wanted with a nice mix of criticisms and flattery (from various sources obviously but use flattery and criticism to get him to support group A or attack group B).
Did Bill Clinton (and other democrats) early in the primary exploit Trumps narcissism to get him to run because they knew he’d blow up the GOP? Did Bill Clinton and other democrats play on Trumps giant ego to get him to run, knowing he would cause serious damage to the GOP?
I don’t think Trump is a willing and knowing patsy (meaning I do not think he is in aware of what is happening and a full partner in cahoots with the Clintons), but I think he is a patsy being used by other people to push their agenda.
Before anyone criticizes me and starts talking about conspiracy theories, the ex-head of the CIA has already admitted that Trump is a co-opted patsy. I’m not the only one who sees this.
Did Trump have his mental illness get used as a tool by both the democrats and the Russians into fighting both of their battles for them (for the democrats, helping to blow up the GOP. By the Russians by pushing for a pro-Russian, republican administration)?
There were some theories that Trump was a willing partner with the Clintons to help get Hillary elected. However based on how Trump acts, I don’t think he is clever enough for something like this.
Instead of him secretly working with the Clintons, I’d be more inclined to believe the Clintons and others played on his mental illness to get Trump to do their bidding (damage the GOP brand and make it easier for Hillary to get elected).
Also lots of major political figures have had mental illnesses. PTSD, depression, substance abuse disorders, etc. Churchill, Lincoln, Grant, Adams, etc. Having a mental illness does not disqualify you from running a major country. Abraham Lincoln and John Adams both had depression for example.
However Trump’s mental illness seems (to me) to make him very easy to manipulate, eliminates his sense of empathy, makes him totally disconnected from reality, unable to reason or be persuaded by evidence and very prone to irrational lashing out which makes his illness extra dangerous.
The title seems to assume that only one person is pulling the strings. The Democrats are attacking him in ways which encourage him to blow up, while Putin is complimenting him in ways that make Trump think Putin is a good and smart guy. I assume that Riebus somehow pulled his strings to finally get him to endorse Ryan and MCain. Trump is easy to manipulate once you understand his mental weaknesses.
I think it’s ludicrous to imagine the Democratic Party as organized enough to be pulling Trump’s strings. And only an Illuminati-conspiracy nut would think the Clintons are behind Trump’s success.
I do believe Trump is an unwitting patsy of Putin, and this will be a very grave peril if Trump is elected. He is a sort of a real-life “Manchurian candidate,” but no matter how obvious this becomes it won’t affect his core supporters (or even petulant Bernie brats) — they’re not reality-based.
I see what you are saying now. I live in New York State, and remember Trump talking about running for governor a few years ago. So his run now is not totally out of the blue.
I think it is definitely possible that the Clintons encouraged him to run for president, to shake up the Republicans, never thinking that he would actually be the Republican nominee.
You can be both. Say you’re an armored car driver. Some guys approach you and say that they want to rob the truck. All you have to do is drive it along a certain route on a specific date. They’ll set up an ambush and rob the truck and tie you up so you’ll look like a victim instead of a suspect. Then you get an equal share of the loot. If you agree, this makes you a co-conspirator in the robbery.
What you don’t know is that the robbers are planning on betraying you. They need you to get the vehicle to a certain place but you have no use to them afterwards. So they’re planning on killing you rather than just tying you up. This makes you the patsy.
I can’t see Trump being a tool of the Democrats. Remember a year ago? Everyone thought Trump was a joke who had no chance of winning the nomination. Why would the Democrats bother backing Trump when nobody would have expected him to be a factor in the election?
The only reason the Democrats would have bothered using Trump is if they somehow expected that he would be a much stronger candidate than he appeared and would defeat all the other Republican candidates. And if that was the case, why would the Democrats offer Trump support? They wanted a weak Republican candidate not a strong one.
Nobody in the Democratic Party could have predicted how Trump turned out; right in the sweet spot between strong enough to defeat all the other Republicans but far too weak to defeat Clinton.
**Is Donald Trump a Putin patsy? **
I think we have a pretty good idea that Putin is pulling Donald’s strings. We’ve also seen how easy it is for Elizabeth Warren to push his buttons. In truth, Donald is ridiculously easy to manipulate.
No one, I’m sure including the Clintons, gave Trump any real chance of winning the nomination, so that whole Clinton-Trump conspiracy line is moot. If anything, Bubba pushed Trump expecting to get a good laugh out of it.