there's a moment in this great interview Olivia Nuzzi has with Maggie Haberman that stood out for me:
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Oct 6 '22, 06:59
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MH: I mean, I’ve seen it enough to know there’s a reason that Donald Trump will believe anything.
ON: I think we have a minor disagreement here.
MH: Tell me.
ON: I think he is open to saying he believes anything because he’s willing to try anything to see if it works for him. Like, That’s good, I’ll go with that. But genuine belief?
MH: Yeah. Whether it’s because of convenience or because he actually believes it, he is open to almost anything being real because he will verbalize almost anything. Many times he quickly believes that someone is out to get him because that sounds right, and so person X tells him that person Y did something to him, he will believe that even if it’s not true. It goes to some state of emotional arousal for him. He gets excited.
ON: Because he loves chaos?
MH: And because he is deeply paranoid.
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