Malignant narcissists lie A LOT.

 Duty To Warn 🔉 @duty2warn · 2h 

Trump has lied his entire life. Malignant narcissists lie A LOT. The type of lying they do most, is to create false constructs to justify their entitlement and put forth their air of supposed grandiosity.     

Trump - in particular, has been creating false constructs his entire life - from the size of his inheritance to the size of crowds to the size of his hands. He's lied about his grades, his wealth, his stability, his health, his acuity, and in recent years - his cognition.

     Trump's single greatest fear, and this is true for almost every malignant narcissist, is NOT losing, not even incarceration - it's the unraveling of his secrets and lies and false constructs. This, to him, would be humiliation. It's why he repeated the Big Lie for years.     

And it's ALSO why he is panicking about Epstein - he's trapped. Whether there is or isn't "a list" is immaterial compared to public perception, and right now - public perception is that there is/was a list, he (through Bondi) reneged on a major promise, it makes him look guilty as hell, pedophilia (or even just knowledge of it) is unforgivable, and so - he is desperate to use his power to influence the narrative to divert and distract. But he's done that SO poorly - that long post he made was awful - and it has made him look even guiltier.     

Moreover, his safe place - the MAGA echo chamber - is no longer safe. It's been penetrated, pretty far and at the grass roots level.     

There's one more layer to his potential humiliation: Because his entire life has been concocted of secrets and lies (aka false constructs), exposure of one major false narrative - in his mind - risks rendering him forever false in all things. He feels that way because deep down, he knows he IS forever false.      

For THAT to be exposed, terrifies him.