another coinky dink?

that he asked Russia to hack Hillary's email? It was during a debate. I don't recall which one or what month. He was clearly in on it at that time, though. But I think it was a slip on his part. You know, running at the mouth, wanting so badly to brag about how his Russians friends but not being allowed to.

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clinton’s deleted emails. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

July 27, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html

Well I had event and timeline completely wrong, didn't I? But it doesn't change my point. They were already helping him. He was already aware, imo. That was an example of a kid in a candy shop, with 4 or 5 bags off candy already in his grips and having been told to behave. But he couldn't. He wanted everyone to know he got the candy, not Hillary. Russia was helping him.

"He wanted everyone to know he got the candy, not Hillary."

Perfect!

Or he wanted to do.

It's an autocrat's trick. Accuse your opponent of the horrible things you are doing. If you accuse first it's harder for others to then point out you doing the same thing.

Once you make an accusation, your opponent cannot repeat and redirect the same accusation to you.

Without looking totally childish.

You're a do do head no, you a……

You are a egomaniac, no, you are the egomaniac.

Totally brilliant, but not Donald Trump

to hack voter databases. The ultimate foreigners.

Sharedvalues nailed it.

I think it was strategic group think.

Bannon, Kushner, and the Russian connections are evil genius.

Donald Trump is just an egotistical empty vessel

totally believed Kobach's voter fraud narrative.

Got Hillary to go on the record that the outcome was not rigged, so she couldn't protest the result

it confirmed the Russian hacking wasn't a hoax.

That whole bunch of them can't seem to play chess here to give them that much credit.

It all seemed like just too much to be coincidental.

as well. Russia pushed that crap from both sides. When will we learn from that?

That made them look more credible. Today it's Pelosi sucks and the same folks are falling for it.

Hamlet had it right: There's method to his madness.

Final Fantasy also had it right: There's method in his malice.

A narcissist loves to let all the props and plebs (i.e. The rest of the world) know that he's extra smart, in the know, more powerful, more connected than those silly little Non Player Characters. They do this by dropping hints, dropping names and showing off.

But narcissists are also intensely paranoid, because deep down, they know they're a sham, and they fear more than anything that all the cardboard people, whose attention they desperately need, will wake up, become real people, and know the truth. This usually manifests as projection -- they accuse everyone else of doing what they are doing (or want to do), or committing the crimes they are committing. Narcissist paranoia is a real life example of that old saw about the rudeness of pointing: when you point at something, three fingers point back at you. When a narcissist is pointing, look closely at what he's pointing at, then examine his person for that exact situation.

Trump was supplying a convenient lie to rationalize rigging the election, "The other side is already doing it, so we have no choice."