Attorney George Conway on Wednesday night tore into Donald Trump for his scheme to hoard classified information at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, knowing that he was breaking the law.
Host Chris Hayes noted that Trump, throughout his private and public life seemed “either to be breaking the law or flirting with breaking the law” and never faced any consequences.
“He encouraged Russian sabotage, criminal sabotage of the election, right? Cheered it on. He attempted to blackmail a foreign leader, used foreign policy like dirty tricks against his opponent. He attempted the first ever, essentially, coup in U.S. government history, so he could stay in power. All the motives are clear, he did not have to do this. It is so wild that he has brought this on himself by deciding to just hoard and steal a bunch of documents that weren’t his and lie about it,” Hayes said.
“And not only that, but he could have given those documents he had last year, and this would have been over!” Conway replied. “It’s incomprehensible. He’s a sociopath, and he’s a narcissist. He’s a sociopath who knows no bounds, no rules, does not care about the rights of others, only cares about himself. Even if he cares about himself, you think you would know enough not to do this.”
Conway added that Trump’s insistence on keeping highly classified documents is a sign of a “defective personality.”
“He can’t help himself,” said Conway. “Everything belongs to him. He is the center of his own universe. We are all abstractions to him. We belong to him. The generals across the river at the Pentagon belong to him. They were my generals. These documents, they were my documents. The presidency, it is mine, I get to keep it. If I don’t get to keep it, someone’s stealing it from me. This is a deranged, defective personality that is self-destructive to the core, and we are watching him self-destruct in real time.”
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