Trump’s Ghostwriter: He’s ‘Unencumbered By a Conscience and He’s Unencumbered by Values’

‘Heart? He doesn’t have a heart that man’

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MELBER: "For the moment. People seem to think the way to deal with him is to give him something so he’ll leave you alone. Why is that wrong?"
SCHWARTZ: "Because he doesn’t operate logically or rationally, and that is a logical or rational response. He operates from emotion, he operates from the gut. You could tell today in the note that he wrote to Kim Jong-un that he clearly dictated himself that he was operating from impulse and from emotion. There was no L rationality in it. When you try to respond to him in that way, you’re out of luck. One other thing, that capitulation, using that word from the last segment, when you capitulate to trump, what you’re doing is you’re making his blood run thick. He loves when you capitulate."
MELBER: "It whets his appetite."
SCHWARTZ: "He’s a bully. The right way to go with a bully toys stand up to that bully, because bullies always, since they have an underlying weakness, will always fold in the face of somebody strong."
MELBER: "So category 2 is Mitt Romney. Stand up at first and that excited people during the campaign, but then capitulate. You have Mitt Romney’s humiliating trump reversal, that was how “The new Yorker” put it."
MELBER: "Well, across the board what you’ve seen is the reaction to trump has been to capitulate because trump’s advantage is he’s unencumbered by a conscience and he’s unencumbered by values, and that’s an enormous advantage when you’re willing to make the end justify the means. The end justify the means always. So he’s willing to do anything, as we know, including lie repeatedly. If you’re up against that, it’s very disarming, literally. And so it’s very hard for people because they’re scared of his emotion. They’re frightened by his emotion. They don’t necessarily — people don’t necessarily recognize that he is throwing them off their game, but he’s pushing them into their own emotion as opposed to the capacity to think more reflectively and as a result, they are not coming forward with their best.
MELBER: "This is where the emotional piece, which you’ve written about and we’ve been talking to you about on this show, clearly overrides the other skills. Rod Rosenstein is known as having legal acumen and other types of skills. And he was, as I mentioned earlier in the show, praised by some for the half measure of this meeting today. Well, this has blown up in his face. It is embarrassing and possibly legally problematic for rod Rosenstein, that he got bullied into creating a forum today where the president’s criminal defense attorney crashed the meeting, because that raises a question of who’s in charge of these meetings? And Donald Trump, in your view here, has rattled Rosenstein."

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