Does anybody know what the f**k Trump believes when he says things like he did today? By Hal M. Brown

When Trump stopped to talk with reporters on his way to speak with Republican lawmakers about getting the budget bill passed he went off on the following tangent:

But I really — we're going to start looking into this whole thing with who signed this legislation, who signed legislation opening our border. I don't think he knew! I said, there's nobody that could want an open border. Nobody. And now I find out that it wasn't him. He opened it. Who was operating the auto pen? This is a very serious thing. We had a president that didn't sign anything. He had almost everything. He opened the borders of the United States of America, and I kept saying, who would do such a thing? Allowing criminals to pour in from all over the world, not just South America — all over the world.

They came in from Africa, they came in from Asia, they came from the Congo, the prisons in the Congo, in Africa. These are rough, rough people. The prisons from the Congo are empty. You know where they are? They're in this country. Who would sign this? Nobody would sign it. No sane person would sign it. You know who signed it? Radical left lunatics that were running our country and the autopen signed it.

And they didn't want him (Biden). And they were disappointed in getting him because they wanted Bernie Sanders. And then after about two weeks, they said, 'Wait a minute, this is a gift. He'll do anything. We're going to use the autopen.' And they use the autopen and everything. He didn't approve this stuff because when Joe Biden was with it, he would never have approved that. You take a look. he would have never approved open borders.

These remarks came at the 1:40 mark in the video which you can see here.

How much of this does Trump really believe? Does he believe any of it? Is all of it a performance? Nobody but Trump really knows and he may not even know himself.

For example, are the prisons in Congo empty because all their “rough, rough” inmates are now here thanks to Biden?

The governemt of Congo begs to differ:

‘Everything he is saying isn’t true’: Congolese governments denounce Trump’s baseless stories about emptied prisons.

Excerpt:

There is no evidence for former President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that “the Congo” has emptied prisons to allow violent criminals to come to the US border as migrants – and the governments of both the Democratic Republic of Congo and the neighboring Republic of Congo say Trump’s assertions are entirely false.

“Everything he is saying isn’t true,” Democratic Republic of Congo spokesperson Patrick Muyaya Katembwe told CNN in a text message on Thursday. Asked specifically about Trump’s claims about Congolese prisons being emptied of violent criminals, he said, “Never ever, it’s not true.” And, he said, “we want him to stop” telling these stories, since “it’s very bad for the country.”

Serge Mombouli, the Republic of Congo’s ambassador to the US, said in an email to CNN on Friday: “There is no truth or any sign nor a single fact supporting such a claim or statement.”

Put this in the “Does He Believe It Or Not?” file along with the ludicrous fairy tale about Haitians eating pets in Springfield (see Wikipedia):

(Amazingly, above is a Twitter post by the Republican-controlled United States House Committee on the Judiciary on September 9, 2024, referencing the hoax with an AI-generated picture.)

Trump obviously is driven to attack Biden at every opportunity and the announcement that he has stage four cancer hasn’t given him pause. His attacking Biden yesterday came as an abrupt segue from one topic to another. I’m reminded of the first shark attack scene from Jaws (here).

At least before then the happy swimmer was attacked the audience was warned by the ominious music. We knew it was coming anyway because the name of the movies was “Jaws.”

Perhaps we should have a musical sound track playing just before Trump goes off on a nasty rant. He is, after all, like a shark in a feeding frenzy when it senses blood in the water.

What explains this aspect of Trump’s behavior? Could it be he has a dual personality? If he does, he could have one amiable personality that makes sense and another nasty and delusional one telling him what to blurt out when he’s talking about something else.

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