Bryan Kohberger Pleaded Guilty Without Understanding THIS

Tony Brueski (0:10)

Bryan Kohberger wants you to believe he's a lot dumber than he appears to be. This is such an interesting twist to this story. He essentially is wanting you to think that he did not fully understand what pleading guilty to four murders actually meant, what the consequences of it were.

As he goes on his mission for his appeal.

And there might actually be, in some way, shape or form, some level of reality to that, which makes us so twisted and bizarre, because these claims don't come directly from BryanKohberger's mouth, they come from the attorney's mouth, his old attorney's mouth, in filings to the judge before the plea. Not a broken plea. I want to be clear about that. BryanKohberger, having difficulty fully grasping the consequences to his actions is not a mental defect. It's a narcissist. It's an egomaniac, grandiose narcissist who sees things only through his eyes and no one else's and believes he's pretty much infallible. That's BryanKohberger. That's BryanKohberger from everything we've seen and learned about his personality and the way he's interacted with human beings throughout his adult life. The fact that Ann Taylor was supposedly having difficulty communicating to him and believing he was really grasping what it means to plead guilty or to go forward with trial and the damning evidence that was against him. Him not being able to get his mind up to the level of they really do have a lot of shit against me. And it's probably not going to work out well.

That difficulty does not surprise me, but it doesn't show a mental defect. It just shows a narcissist.

You know, call narcissism a mental defect or something like that. It doesn't negate and it doesn't give you a new trial. It doesn't give you more legal options because you're a narcissist. In fact, it usually just gets you locked away. And thank God, so you can't continue to cause the havoc and chaos in the world that surrounds you and others. Six days before Bryan Kohberger pled guilty to four murders, a judge shut down his defense's team's request for extra time. What we didn't know then was why they were really asking and defense teams ask all the time for more time and give little excuses and reasons as to why. And the judge eventually used to say yes or no, or we've given you enough.

The reason they were really asking, apparently they couldn't get their own client to face reality. He simply couldn't grasp that he was losing. Are we surprised? Doesn't make him innocent. Doesn't make him get a new trial. It just means it's someone who can't face the reality of their actions. There's plenty of people who do less horrible things in this world that live the rest of their lives alienated from other people around them because they can't quite get to reality the way everybody else is living it. And that creates an incongruence and not a way of being able to communicate or continue on the same path forward. BryanKohberger is pretty much a walking version of that. He's not living in anyone else's reality. He's living in his own.

We learned this from a memo that was filed in August 26 by his new attorney, Greg Rauch. It details a sealed filing.

It was given to Judge Stephen Hipler back on May 20th, 2025 On the surface, that filing looked like a standard request to delay trial over unreviewed evidence and publicity. But behind closed doors, the defense told the judge that Kohberger couldn't process adverse rulings, couldn't form a rational view of his case, and needed a specialist just to talk him through the plea deal.

He really is infantile. He really, really is infantile.

Judge Hippler denied the extra time on June 26th of 25 Less than a week later on July 2nd, Kohberger stood in a boise courtroom and said yes to every question required to give up his life. That sealed warning stayed hidden for 16 months. Then just the other day, September 22nd of 26th, Hippler unsealed the memo describing it in order to tell no intimate details, just defense counsel's serious concerns about a client unable to comprehend what losing in court actually meant.

So what kind of mind confesses to four brutal murders? And then a year later claims the public demands the truth. One key detail sets the stage. Your Kohberger's original defense team explicitly stated he wasn't legally incompetent and his new lawyer isn't arguing with you as either instead Rauch is using this memo to argue the judge was biased. When a defense files something ex parte, it's a private conversation with the judge to protect strategy or sensitive client information. That's why prosecutors never saw the supplement in 2025 And it's why the victim's family sat through the plea hearing completely unaware the defense had warned the judge that Kohberger might not even understand what he was agreeing to. In court, legal competency just means you know what's happening and can assist your lawyer. His team said he could do that. What they described was something much stranger than legal incompetence. Comes down to extreme grandiosity. A person sees himself as the smartest guy in any room. We know Kohberger does that. When hard facts contradict that self-image, he rejects the facts outright and blames the room. Every ruling against him isn't news about his weak legal standing. It's just proof that the judge doesn't get it. The memo captures this perfectly. An inability to factor adverse rulings into a realistic assessment of his case. His attorneys were dealing with a man who followed every word, yet refused to admit a single defeat. Look at his background. BryanKohberger earned a master's in criminal justice from DeSales University and was pursuing a criminology Ph.D. at Washington State when he was arrested. He wasn't an idiot. He wasn't a lot of ways, but he wasn't sitting in the corner, 38 IQ rocking back and forth back at DeSales.