Sort-of. But what my theory means is the process where he's asked "Did you know about X", most of us, if we lie, would think, "well yes I knew about X but I can't say that so I'll say no", and out comes the lie, and we know it's a lie. Whereas Rump in that moment thinks, "Ï knew about X, but that won't work here, therefore I didn't know about X" and from that moment believes that he didn't know about X, à la Doublethink. And of course that doesn't preclude subsequently having known about X and interacting with it, while seeing no conflict therein. Which is why I call it mental retardation. Again, Doublethink, the action of holding contradictory thoughts simultaneously while believing both of them, even though that's impossible.
Knew all about David Duke in 2000, "knew nothing" of David Duke in 2015. Another example.
In other words I'd be willing to bet that Rump could pass a lie detector test on his own bullshit. He could literally read his father's birth certificate indicating "Bronx" and then look up and say "my father was born in a very wonderful place in Germany", without getting why that won't fly. That's why he's bewildered when the UN laughs at him. He buys his own bullshit.
When Reality has no function, you can say whatever the fuck you want. It's yet another way to shirk responsibility for one's own actions. "When I say would I mean wouldn't". If you recall he even toyed with the idea of trying to say it wasn't his voice on the Access Hollywood bus tape, even though it was on audio AND video. Doesn't get much more divorced from Reality than that.
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