I had read about sociopathy, I possess a sterile, intellectual knowledge of the subject and was aware of its danger to others, but I never imagined seeing its fetidness or smelling its stench from a United States president. Throughout our history we have had, as leaders, saints and all manner of sinners. But never, until now, have we had a certifiable, indictable, unforgivable nutjob on the job, diseased by this major anti-social personality disorder called sociopathy.
That 40 percent or so of the American electorate can't see or won't accept what is so plainly before their nose is even scarier.
"In perhaps his most incendiary remarks, Mr. Trump repeatedly declined to disavow QAnon, a pro-Trump internet community that has been described by law enforcement as a potential domestic terrorism threat. The president professed to have no knowledge of the group, and as a result could not disavow it, but then demonstrated specific knowledge of one of its core conspiracy theories involving pedophilia that is entirely false.
"'I know nothing about it,' Mr. Trump said. 'I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard.' When the NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie pressed Mr. Trump to reject the community’s essential worldview, and described some of its most extreme and bogus elements, the president gave no ground: 'I don’t know,' he insisted. 'No, I don’t know.'"