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What Donald Trump and Serial Killers Have in Common
By: Steve Becker|April 28, 2017
What do Donald Trump and serial killers share? Maybe just this—like serial killers, Trump has highly psychopathic tendencies.
I recognize how provocative this sounds, but hear me out. Trump is no serial killer, and nothing in his history, of course, suggests the lust or compulsion serial killers possess to inflict death (or physical pain) on others. Nothing about Trump suggests he is violently psychopathic, as serial killers are.
But many psychopaths aren’t physically violent, and fewer are homicidal. And among violent psychopaths, few (only a tiny minority) will be serial killers. But something links all psychopaths and psychopathically-oriented individuals—their psychopathic mentality.
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