Donald Trump, as it has been proven on at least a thousand occasions over the past year, is a pathological liar.
And now Seth Abramson, an English professor at the University of New Hampshire who worked for years as a public defender in the state of New Hampshire, comes along and confirms what we long suspected about Trump: He even exhibits the signs found in a person who is guilty of a crime.
As Abramson noted in a series of tweets:
“Ask any criminal attorney: the president is engaging in all the behaviors a guilty person would.”
Not just some of them; all 12. Take a look:
1/ Apropos of my last tweet, here are things a guilty person does (as I know from years as a criminal attorney) that Trump is doing: #1…
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 15, 2017
2/ …allege a conspiracy against you. #2 Raise issues irrelevant to the case to distract attention. #3 Avoid speaking of the facts…
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 15, 2017
3/ …closest in time/space to the crime alleged. #4 Cite the support of people unassociated with the allegations to boost credibility…
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 15, 2017
4/ …#5 Make oneself difficult to access for further questioning. #6 Displacing blame onto others. #7 Using anger/self-righteousness to…
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 15, 2017
5/ …distract from the allegations. #8 Complain about law enforcement. #9 Allege the crime was impossible/improbable. #10 Misstate facts…
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 15, 2017
6/ …of the case while (paradoxically) claiming innocence and having nothing to hide. #11 Manipulate surrogates (particularly witnesses)…
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 15, 2017
7/ …to make the case harder to investigate/prosecute and to sow confusion. #12 Deny relationships (even provably extant ones) that…
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 15, 2017
8/ …would make commission of the crime more likely. These are the 12 most common signs of a guilty person. Trump exhibits _all of them_.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 15, 2017
Though they might not admit it, even the most avid Trumpkin knows that Trump does indeed engage in each of these behaviors. Yet another reason he needs to be impeached.
h/t Raw Story
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