Trump's whole self is on the line

Trump will have to choose between financial ruin and the very structure of his mind

Tish James at the March for our Lives rally. (Wiki photo)

When it comes to Trump’s virtuoso lying, he has never fully grasped the venue factor. Lying to creditors, vendors, buyers, lawyers, accountants, banks, the IRS, the media, his former cabinet, his wives, his colleagues—this is second nature to him. 

Getting people to invent numbers or stay silent or conceal evidence or threaten witnesses to back up all the lies is in many ways the entirety of being Donald Trump. 

But then there is the dread Under Oath. This week, U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie, the special master assessing the Mar-a-Lago documents for client-attorney privilege, ordered Trump’s lawyers to state in a court filing under penalty of perjury—not on Truth Social or at a rally, places where only gibberish is spoken—whether they believe FBI agents lied about the documents they seized from his deco-ish Florida pile.