“Why does anyone think of this guy as some kind of Oracle of Delphi and read his emissions as if they were Nostradamus quatrains?”
No. someone who is very close to Trump and is providing hints as to what action is underway.
“No. someone who is very close to Trump and is providing hints as to what action is underway.”
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It’s interesting an phenom - it’s a form of “cold reading”.
“Cold reading” is a term refering to how a psychic will scam people into believing s/he has some superior secret knowledge.
You can read about it online, James Randi did some great exposes on it’s use, for example.
One starting place -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
Basically what is done is some generic, non-specific things are tossed out, e.g. “I see a woman relative who has passed on...she’s trying to tell me her name....I can only see the letter “M”...
Then the client (the mark) begins to search their mind for a female relative with a name that starts with “M”....after they think on it, they realize they had a great aunt named “Martha”. The psychic is validated!
Pretty amazing stuff, actually - how we fall into such things, especially if we have selective perception as a starting place.