Conservative attorney George Conway offered a scathing critique of former President Donald Trump’s behavior during his deposition for the civil fraud case conducted by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Conway, speaking on MSNBC, dissected Trump’s approach, dismissing the idea of a strategic legal maneuver and characterizing Trump as a “psychopath” and a “sociopath.”
Conway expressed his disbelief in Trump having a legal strategy, emphasizing, “There is no strategy.” He compared Trump’s actions during the deposition to a quote from an anonymous administration official that characterized Trump as not playing “17-dimensional chess” but rather “eating the pieces.” Conway continued to paint Trump as impulsive, acting instinctively with limited intellectual depth, relying on tactics such as bullying and lying.
Addressing the issue of Trump pleading the fifth in other trials, Conway acknowledged that Trump avoids testifying under oath because he lacks control in a courtroom setting. Despite Trump’s performative behavior and dismissive comments about the ongoing trial, Conway criticized the former president for not testifying under oath in the first place.
Trump’s legal troubles, including the civil fraud case related to the handling of his business practices, have drawn significant attention. Conway’s remarks reflect a broader discourse on Trump’s approach to legal matters and his public persona, with critics asserting that his behavior is impulsive and lacking in strategic depth. Trump, in turn, has publicly criticized Conway, referring to him as “mentally ill” and “a total loser.”
And that’s what he’s doing in the courtroom in the Carroll case. And that’s what he’s doing — there is no strategy. He’s a psychopath, he’s a sociopath, and if you look at the diagnostic criteria for a sociopath, they’re purely impulsive. He acts instinctively. He has no real intellect. His intellect is reptilian in a sense. He’s got a limited number of riffs: there’s bullying, there is lying, and that’s basically what it comes down to.
“Except that we have seen him at other trials plead the fifth. So he does have the discipline to do that when he thinks it behooves him?” Menendez asked.
“He doesn’t like to testify under oath because he doesn’t particularly control it, particularly in a courtroom,” Conway said. “And that’s why, for all the nonsense and the performative behavior that he’s doing right now in this trial in New York and saying, ‘Oh, she’s lying, and these sort of bullshit comments…it’s like, OK, dude, you could have testified under oath the first time around and you didn’t even show up.”
Trump has called Conway, the ex-husband of Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, “mentally ill” and “a total loser.”
