Then why is he saying all these thing? PATHOLICAL IS WHAT HE IS:
Defining characteristics of pathological lying include:
The stories told are usually dazzling or fantastical, but never breach the limits of plausibility, which is key to the pathological liar’s tact. The tales are not a manifestation of delusion or some broader type of psychosis; upon confrontation, the teller can admit them to be untrue, even if unwillingly.
The fabricative tendency is chronic; it is not provoked by the immediate situation or social pressure so much as it is an innate trait of the personality. There is some element of dyscontrol present.
A definitely internal, not an external, motive for the behavior can be discerned clinically: e.g., long-lasting extortion or habitual spousal battery might cause a person to lie repeatedly, without the lying being a pathological symptom.[2]
The stories told tend toward presenting the liar favorably. The liar “decorates their own person”[3] by telling stories that present them as the hero or the victim. For example, the person might be presented as being fantastically brave, as knowing or being related to many famous people, or as having great power, position, or wealth.
Pathological lying may also present as false memory syndrome, where the sufferer genuinely believes that fictitious (imagined) events have taken place. The sufferer may believe that he or she has accomplished superhuman feats or awe-inspiring acts of altruism and love — or has committed equally grandiose acts of diabolical evil, for which the sufferer must atone, or indeed has already atoned in her/his fantasies.
He is not "saying all these thing" [sic]. He WROTE those things almost twenty years ago to illustrate how the Lord led him out of a life that contained such rage-filled moments. Now he is forced to try to explain what he meant to non-Christians who have no conception of what it is to renounce sin and make a change of heart.
Please understand that it does not help Trump to continue to badmouth someone where you are demonstrating a deliberate refusal to understand the timeline and sequence of events.
For you to then post an unattributed, uncited definition of pathology that contains the concept of spousal battery is just willfully malicious against a husband of one wife for 43 years and a father and grandfather of good character, well known to the professional class of people here in Maryland, where my family met his.
I am asking you as one FReeper to another, please stop hurting Donald Trump here on FR by making such down-and-dirty accusations against a decent man.