Something recently reminded me of this scene from Repo Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=d9k09WPpNeo
I was getting all excited about the Incompetent Dictator giving
sworn testimony in the Russia investigation, because I predict a zero
percent chance of him going through even a short interview without
saying something false, which would of course be perjury.
And
then I realized that it wouldn't be. Perjury requires willful
falsehood, saying something you know isn't true. Watching the monster
for a couple of years now, I'm fairly convinced (at least in part from
having known people like him in my own life) that he honestly thinks
that because he says something that automatically makes it true. I'm
guessing his lawyers would have little trouble producing expert medical
testimony to Trump's mental state in that regard.
In
the past this would have been a poor defense. It might have gotten him
out of being impeached or convicted for perjury, but it would require
proving in open court (or the floor of the Senate) that the President of
the United States is so completely divorced from reality that words
like "truth" and "lies" are completely meaningless to him. Almost better
to go ahead and take the fall for perjury!
But
now? Can't nothing bring this thing any shame. And it's hard to imagine
it hurting him in the eyes of his supporters. I suspect many of them
have no better grip on reality than he does.
So
when the President says "I wasn't singing, dude," his brain is so
broken that he thinks his denial actually means that he was not in fact
singing. And then the choir of Alex Joneses (using whatever platforms
remain to them) chime in with "Why are you lying about Trump? Fake
news!"
