President Donald Trump\u00a0may have deluded himself into believing that he actually won the 2020 election, according to his former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n
In an interview on SiriusXM\u2019s \u201cThe Dan Abrams Show,\u201d the host asked Cohen about Trump\u2019s leaked call\u00a0to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which The Washington Post published Sunday. In the recording, Trump pressures Raffensperger, a Republican, to \u201cfind\u201d enough votes to overturn his loss to President-elect Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he truly believes that he won the election, then it\u2019s harder to demonstrate criminal intent,\u201d Abrams said. \u201cAnd I have to say, after listening to the tape, I start to think he actually believes that he won. And that\u2019s why I wanted to get you on to say, do you think that\u2019s the case?\u201d<\/p>\n
Cohen agreed, saying that Trump is a \u201cpathological narcissist.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that Donald has always believed in, is the Stalin approach, that the more you say something over and over again, the more people will believe it,\u201d he said. \u201cHe has now gone past that line. He has now convinced himself that there is something that is keeping him from his second term and that he is the rightful winner of this election.\u201d<\/p>\n
He explained that there is no way Trump could justify to himself that he lost to Biden, a man he repeatedly mocked as slow, sleepy and a \u201closer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no other way he can explain to himself. Remember, Donald Trump has three friends in the whole world: me, myself, and I. And there\u2019s no way he can express to himself that he\u2019s a loser and that Joe Biden won. It goes against his essence, it goes against his core, and he needs to rationalize something to explain this loss,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Cohen, formerly one of Trump\u2019s closest confidants, is serving the remainder of a three-year prison sentence in home confinement. He pleaded guilty in 2018 to criminal charges that included lying to Congress and campaign finance violations for facilitating hush-money payments to two women who alleged they had extramarital affairs with Trump.<\/p>\n
Listen to an excerpt from the interview below:<\/p>\n
H\/T Mediaite\ufeff<\/p>\n
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