A million new Epstein documents didn’t appear by accident. They surfaced because panic leaves fingerprints, delay exposes fear, and selective transparency always reveals exactly who’s sweating.
This analysis model was published by Freyd, J.J. (1997) in Violations of power, adaptive blindness, and betrayal trauma theory. Feminism & Psychology, 7, 22-32. See, also, “What is DARVO?” by Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD, Professor Emerit of Psychology, University of Oregon, quoted below https://www.jjfreyd.com/darvo
“DARVO refers to a reaction perpetrators of wrong doing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender." The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim -- or the whistle blower -- into an alleged offender. This occurs, for instance, when an actually guilty perpetrator assumes the role of "falsely accused" and attacks the accuser's credibility and blames the accuser of being the perpetrator of a false accusation.”
Unfortunately I’ve known that game since childhood. It is one of the most passive aggressive psychological forms of destruction I know of. It turns the victims shame against them. Blames them for what happened to them and shames them for speaking up.
My predator told me if I didn’t confess it I would go to hell. I was seven years old so I believed him. Now I wish there was a hell so that he and others like him would finally know the damage they caused.
What you have shared is gut-wrenching and terrifying and, at the same time, highly informative and VITALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW & UNDERSTAND. Thank you, Kelvin, Susan and Meidas/Michael Cohen.
When are they just gonna take him out? He’s proven his guilt, he’s defied court orders, he’s done so many deadly things that need congressional approval (as per law) without getting congressional approval and he’s proven that the cheese has slid off of his cracker! Isn’t it time that this little experiment in Nazi-ism be put in the history books?!
"They" are never going to take him out, if by "they" you mean Congress. I do love the expression his "cheese has slid off of his cracker." That's brilliant!
I do have hope that once democrats win the House and Senate that they will start to reel in executive powers and make trump get approval for things that need approval for but non-MAGA republicans really do need to grow a set instead of Kamikazee-ing their own party into oblivion
We know about Trump’s psychotic behavior. He is a malignant, narcissistic, pathological liar. Trump is not only a malignant narcissist, he’s got the mind of a 13 year old boy. He’s pathetic. But he employs a specific manipulative strategy that actually has a name. But I didn’t know that there is a very specific diagnosis. Its roots lie in the model of his brutish father. Upon that foundation he added the vicious counsel of Roy Cohn to attack anyone suing him in order to raise the personal cost for his victims, drain them of resources and delay the courts.
[W]ith predictable regularity, never missing a beat, Donald Trump proclaims his innocence. He always denies that he has done anything wrong. The charge does not matter. He is blameless. But this is only the beginning of the pattern. Then, he attacks his accusers, or anyone involved in bringing him to account, usually of committing the identical offense of which he stands accused.
But it is not enough for him to lash out. Then, he declares himself to be the victim. Whatever it is, he is falsely accused. But his self-dramatization as the wounded sufferer is only half his story: he insists that whoever has accused him is in fact the offender. He emerges triumphant, the martyr, the truth-teller, courageously unmasking the real villain. J’accuse!
Trump’s pattern is textbook manipulation – literally. It has a precise name given to it after decades of academic research. Jennifer Freyd, now professor emerita of psychology at the University of Oregon, developed the theory over her career studying sexual assault, trauma and institutional betrayal. She named the process by which the perpetrator seeks to avoid accountability Darvo – a strategy with the elements of denial, attack, and reversal of victim and offender.
Dear Michael - I so appreciate your Insight and analysis of the dangerous game DT and his regime is playing. Defying the law, creating distractions and playing with fire. This whole charade is selfishly cruel to the survivors. I have to believe that liar and chief will lose this charade. Anna in AZ. Home of Senator Mark Kelly!
The Epstein scandal isn't going away. What is, I hope, is the demented rapist felon. And he's even crazier than usual, which is saying something. Crossing my fingers that he dies soon.
I'm hoping he gets so pushed by the issue that he has a coronary or a stroke. It's bad to wish evil on anyone, I know, but we need some form of deliverance, and since the cabinet lacks the integrity to invoke the 25th, we have to resort to other means. I'm hoping a Big Mac or Bucket o' Chicken will do its patriotic duty, and soon.
Dropped Lev & Co. today because of his rants and irrational comments and behavior! Not pleasant to listen to or observe! He is ranting about you, Michael, too!
Didn’t hear about t this but you do know that he worked for Trump and Rudy and has been trying to keep his spot in the limelight. The problem for him is that his 15 minutes has expired. You can only tell his tales so many times.
I think his vanity outweighed his fear of exposure. Or perhaps he felt he would be powerful enough to thwart exposure. He shouldn't have made the release of the Epstein files one of his main campaign promises if he wanted to avoid exposure. He thought there'd be dirt on Democrats there, or at least he wanted to imply to his cult that there was. Karma.
Behavior more and more like that of a Trapped RAT ‼️
Brilliant analysis. Thank you so much.
This analysis model was published by Freyd, J.J. (1997) in Violations of power, adaptive blindness, and betrayal trauma theory. Feminism & Psychology, 7, 22-32. See, also, “What is DARVO?” by Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD, Professor Emerit of Psychology, University of Oregon, quoted below https://www.jjfreyd.com/darvo
“DARVO refers to a reaction perpetrators of wrong doing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. DARVO stands for "Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender." The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim -- or the whistle blower -- into an alleged offender. This occurs, for instance, when an actually guilty perpetrator assumes the role of "falsely accused" and attacks the accuser's credibility and blames the accuser of being the perpetrator of a false accusation.”
Unfortunately I’ve known that game since childhood. It is one of the most passive aggressive psychological forms of destruction I know of. It turns the victims shame against them. Blames them for what happened to them and shames them for speaking up.
My predator told me if I didn’t confess it I would go to hell. I was seven years old so I believed him. Now I wish there was a hell so that he and others like him would finally know the damage they caused.
Even if I could forgive, I can’t forget.
Sadly, it is as you describe and appalling that such evil happened to you.
King of DARVO Donald Trump and his big lies Apr 5, 2017 https://stephanievolin.medium.com/king-of-darvo-456217a7e10b
The Six Dark Lessons Roy Cohn Taught Trump (That He Still Uses Today) https://tinyurl.com/ctyrb2rx
Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump the six rules of managing and dominating situations and people.
1. Never apologize or admit wrongdoing, ever.
2. Always counter-attack, and always with greater force than you received.
3. Use the legal system as a weapon, not a recourse for justice.
4. Manipulate the media ruthlessly.
5. Use fear as both shield and sword.
6. Build a fortress of loyalty around yourself.
What you have shared is gut-wrenching and terrifying and, at the same time, highly informative and VITALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW & UNDERSTAND. Thank you, Kelvin, Susan and Meidas/Michael Cohen.
Chilling! Cleary he is using that methodology.
Thank you to everyone for your support. I was very afraid to openly talk about my experience. Your support means more than I can express. Thank you.
When are they just gonna take him out? He’s proven his guilt, he’s defied court orders, he’s done so many deadly things that need congressional approval (as per law) without getting congressional approval and he’s proven that the cheese has slid off of his cracker! Isn’t it time that this little experiment in Nazi-ism be put in the history books?!
"They" are never going to take him out, if by "they" you mean Congress. I do love the expression his "cheese has slid off of his cracker." That's brilliant!
I do have hope that once democrats win the House and Senate that they will start to reel in executive powers and make trump get approval for things that need approval for but non-MAGA republicans really do need to grow a set instead of Kamikazee-ing their own party into oblivion
Obtaining an impeachment conviction requires a supermajority in the Senate. 67%.
He’s been impeached twice, it did nothing. He needs to be taken out for treason that way he AND his dumbass administration are told to fuck off.
Then make those REPUBLICAN senators and Congress find their spines and locate the balls of the SCOTUS.
What balls?
The ones that would enable them to follow the law for a change.
Those don't exist, Trump castrated them all
I believe that's spelled Scrotus.
Creepy and hilarious, all at the same time.
Probably February 30th. Or in about two weeks.
Thanks for this information. We need to TRUMP PROOF these United States of America!
💙🦅💙
Michael your articles are written so well it feels like I’m reading fiction. Then I smack myself, say “oh shit this stuff is true”.
Written impeccably
What is Darvo: Donald Trump’s very specific form of manipulation 2-Feb-24 https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/02/what-is-darvo/ (edited based on this 1-Feb-24 article in The Guardian, https://tinyurl.com/murnarhn)
We know about Trump’s psychotic behavior. He is a malignant, narcissistic, pathological liar. Trump is not only a malignant narcissist, he’s got the mind of a 13 year old boy. He’s pathetic. But he employs a specific manipulative strategy that actually has a name. But I didn’t know that there is a very specific diagnosis. Its roots lie in the model of his brutish father. Upon that foundation he added the vicious counsel of Roy Cohn to attack anyone suing him in order to raise the personal cost for his victims, drain them of resources and delay the courts.
[W]ith predictable regularity, never missing a beat, Donald Trump proclaims his innocence. He always denies that he has done anything wrong. The charge does not matter. He is blameless. But this is only the beginning of the pattern. Then, he attacks his accusers, or anyone involved in bringing him to account, usually of committing the identical offense of which he stands accused.
But it is not enough for him to lash out. Then, he declares himself to be the victim. Whatever it is, he is falsely accused. But his self-dramatization as the wounded sufferer is only half his story: he insists that whoever has accused him is in fact the offender. He emerges triumphant, the martyr, the truth-teller, courageously unmasking the real villain. J’accuse!
Trump’s pattern is textbook manipulation – literally. It has a precise name given to it after decades of academic research. Jennifer Freyd, now professor emerita of psychology at the University of Oregon, developed the theory over her career studying sexual assault, trauma and institutional betrayal. She named the process by which the perpetrator seeks to avoid accountability Darvo – a strategy with the elements of denial, attack, and reversal of victim and offender.
Micheal Cohen is an exceptional writer.
Could he just unravel more quickly...into a psychotic state, please!
One of the worst perverts to ever serve the American people in history.
Dear Michael - I so appreciate your Insight and analysis of the dangerous game DT and his regime is playing. Defying the law, creating distractions and playing with fire. This whole charade is selfishly cruel to the survivors. I have to believe that liar and chief will lose this charade. Anna in AZ. Home of Senator Mark Kelly!
The Epstein scandal isn't going away. What is, I hope, is the demented rapist felon. And he's even crazier than usual, which is saying something. Crossing my fingers that he dies soon.
I'm hoping he gets so pushed by the issue that he has a coronary or a stroke. It's bad to wish evil on anyone, I know, but we need some form of deliverance, and since the cabinet lacks the integrity to invoke the 25th, we have to resort to other means. I'm hoping a Big Mac or Bucket o' Chicken will do its patriotic duty, and soon.
Great writing Michael
Hey, why is Lev Parnas pissed at y'all at MTN? Sez he's got an exposé coming?
Dropped Lev & Co. today because of his rants and irrational comments and behavior! Not pleasant to listen to or observe! He is ranting about you, Michael, too!
What? I guess I missed this news! 🫢
Didn’t hear about t this but you do know that he worked for Trump and Rudy and has been trying to keep his spot in the limelight. The problem for him is that his 15 minutes has expired. You can only tell his tales so many times.
This is a first rate dissection of what is happening.
Who, with such a toxic, tarnished, filthy, disgusting background, and with all that could potentially be uncovered, would decide to enter public life?
If I had a few hundred skeletons stacked deep in every closet and under every bed, THE LAST THING I would consider would be to run for office.
Elbow Zupp! 🇨🇦
I think his vanity outweighed his fear of exposure. Or perhaps he felt he would be powerful enough to thwart exposure. He shouldn't have made the release of the Epstein files one of his main campaign promises if he wanted to avoid exposure. He thought there'd be dirt on Democrats there, or at least he wanted to imply to his cult that there was. Karma.