"Reading a book by FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood last night and was struck
by this.
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He said narcissistic criminals are often caught because they cannot stop bragging about their crimes, even to police. They may be cutesy by
dropping vague hints, or they may decide to send anonymous letters to
the press, or taunting letters to police.
They are proud of their crimes and their ability to fool the
authorities. They see a confrontation with the authorities as a game.
They get excitement, a thrill, out of revealing details of their crimes
to show how clever they are, how ruthless they are, how cruel they are.
They can't help bragging, even obliquely. They revel in the concept that
police know they are guilty, but that they are too smart to be
convicted. They may even "confess" by concocting "if I did it" scenarios
that give them an opportunity to detail how smart they are. It is a
compulsion.
Of course, Ressler's evaluation is of serial killers and the like. But
it does seem to translate to the behavior we are seeing from "Your
Favorite President". Deep down, he wants everyone to know he "did it",
but that he is too smart, too powerful to face consequences. He revels
in the agitation, the fear, the destruction he is able to create."
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