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This cognitive dissonance looks to me as possibly part of the reason for Trump‘s incoherent behavior with respect of the secrets he kept.

• perviouslyiner 3y ago
  That might have simply been that certain documents could make a General look bad and validate any argument where he wants to insult the guy
• monnok 3y ago
  As someone afflicted with holding on to junk that might be useful someday, myself, I often pity Trump on the matter of the “boxes.” It’s so clear that he has 1) desperately insecure compulsions to exploit information asymmetries, but also 2) a shallow bombastic character that probably rarely ever has had access to truly advantageous facts or the subtlety to effectively exploit them. All the little glimpses into his overactive engagement with those boxes are so intimate and so pathetic. Stepping down from all those secrets beyond even what he always suspected other people had squirreled away, but also that he hasn’t been able to exploit like he always assumed he would… It’s just a sad sad scene. Well, and also very embarrassingly stupid.