Right you are. Huge and grotesque.
And manipulative.
I’ve been trying to step back from the distortion of facts being fed by JS and the PR clan. It’s hard for me to completely filter out subtleties that have been leaking in. I always felt one of FDs weak points were his words- that there was more in what he was saying -almost a read between the lines thing.
With the Clan and JS,
they’ve been squeezing little “facts” in as explanations for MTs actions or reasons for motions. Take for example, why she needs her GPS removed. As
@Morgan10028 listed about, there seems to be a never ending list of items, a throwing of pasta-on-the-wall like list, just to see if any stick. But also accompanying all of these reasons are little “facts” that we take as valid, ie that MT has a job, is going to stay in Co, wants to go on ski lift. ...etc.
We take those bits as accurate, but really, why should we? MT has lied before. Misdirected before. I think that is her weakness. We should go back and examine her words from this point of view.
So I keep thinking about the explanation offered for MT getting out of the car and scrubbing her hand in the dirt during the trash deposit. She said she was wiping off gum. I’ve read a lot of questions and disgust here ( and thought them myself), why in germ-ridden dirt? Why not on garbage being tossed? Couldn’t she find a napkin or such in the car?...
With magical misdirection, she managed to change the focus of her action from “what was she doing” to “why” was she doing “what she claimed”.
IMO MT could have been very carefully, with pre-thought and awareness, wiping a gummy substance off her hand without leaving any fingerprints or DNA on anything.