As prosecutors in New York discuss the various possible charges against Donald Trump, they fear they will have to prove he is not legally insane to make a case against him, according to a forthcoming book by one of the prosecutors.
“Does Donald Trump suffer from a mental illness that makes him unable to distinguish between fact and fiction?” Mark Pomerantz writes in “The People vs. Donald Trump: An Insider’s Account,” courtesy of The Daily Beast. The book will be out Tuesday.
Pomerantz, who joined the Manhattan district attorney’s office in early 2021, announced that the lawyers were “discussing whether Trump has been talking nonsense for so many years about so many things that he can’t process the difference between nonsense and reality.” according to The Beast.
“To refute the claim that Trump believes his own ‘hype’ … we must show, and emphatically, that Donald Trump is not legally insane,” The Beast quoted from the book.
The district attorney’s office had hired Pomerantz as it sought to build a case against the former president over allegedly falsified business records — but Pomerantz quit early last year when DA Alvin Bragg decided not to prosecute Trump.