I work in a secure mental health facility, that speech pattern is very familiar to me. Terrifying to see it in high office. Whether or not he was trying to convince them, or whether he believes what he says is where i think the law may struggle here. I don't think you're going to catch Trump in a lie, because I don't think he's lying. What he's saying is just objectively not true. Those are different things all together and I covered that when i spoke about Amber Heard in the Depp v. Heard stuff. https://medium.com/p/c661852e5ae