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The Dear Leader says: "…because everybody who has pictures says how horrible it is. nobody can explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don’t speak languages. we have languages coming into our country. we have nobody that even speaks those languages. they’re truly foreign languages. nobody even speaks them.”

The following appeared today in Jennifer Rubin's column in the Washington Post:

"Salon interviewed John Gartner, a psychologist and former professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School.

Gartner was analytic, specific and frank. He pointed to “‘phonemic paraphasias’ — the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar.” He spelled out his observations:

"Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes “benefishes.” Renovations become “renoversh.” Pivotal became “pivobal.” Obama became “obamna.” Missiles became “mishiz.” Christmas became “Crissus.” Bipartisan became “bipars.” …

"Trump also engages in what we call “tangential speech.” He just becomes incomprehensible when he engages in free association word salad speech that is all over the place. Again, that’s a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step ... but of severe cognitive deterioration."

"What I don’t understand is why those clips aren’t replayed over and over in the mainstream media. Isn’t Trump babbling incoherently the most newsworthy part of his rally? You can be sure it would be if it were Biden.

"Perhaps outlets and figures such as Gartner who responsibly discuss Trump’s mental and emotional condition will shame the rest of the media into covering what should be a major story."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/01/newsletter-race-trump/

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