Maybe His Lardship IS mentally ill

Maybe he's not just a narcissist, not just a pathological liar, not just a white supremacist, not just a misogynist, not just a cheat, not just a criminal, not just a despicable asshole.  Maybe he's ALSO mentally ill.  I say ALSO, because mentally ill people aren't necessarily all those other things as well.

Anyway, here's Kurt Eichenwald's input:

...was the consequence of strategic feigned insanity or the real thing. I was naive and could not believe someone as ill as he would have to be could function. So I said it was an act. It took two more years - 1992 - until I sided with others who said he was mentally ill.

How could anyone explain why banks loaned billions - even in the 1980s nutty financing - to such an unstable man? We all shrugged, assuming that rump would simply end up being a failed businessman...wrecking companies, sailing along on his daddy’s money, and striking deals with his only real asset, the marketing value of his name.

But then, our country went insane, electing a man whom banks would no longer loan money to (other than deutsche) who legit businessfolk wouldn’t go near. America thought he was successful because that’s who he played on TV. They never considered the reality that successful business folk don’t host game shows.

Few people understand him. Yes, much of what he says is untrue. But it is not lies. He believes it. His mind jumps to whatever “facts” reinforce his belief in his superiority. As one psychiatrist explained to me this type of condition in someone else, facts become annoyances; the ill person believes he KNOWS what is true (in this case, he is perfect), but the pesky facts just keep getting in the way. So, folks like this conclude the facts are wrong, because it contradicts what they know to be true.

So do ot give trump the credit of calling him a liar. He is much more dangerous than that. He has no idea what is true or isn’t. All he knows is that he is perfect and he needs constant adulation to reinforce that belief. This is at the foundation of “fake news” screams attacks on mueller, proclaiming the possibility of him being investigated causes the stock market to drop, etc. This is a dangerous situation.

It's dangerous even without the added mental illness possibility.  But, yeah.  That does make it even worse.  (Still, call him a liar.  He is one.)

UPDATE  11/24:

Here's another article on Trump that really hits the nail on the head (without the mental illness part).