A left-wing podcaster made a stunning claim about former President Donald Trump’s mental health as he argued that he is “dodging” Vice President Kamala Harris in debates.
Kara Swisher, a podcaster for New York Magazine, declared Saturday that Trump’s “cognitive challenges are evident” after another panelist on CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show defended the former president’s decision not to host another vice president debate. feed.
She claimed that Trump, 78, is “dodging” another debate with Harris, 59, in an effort to avoid a reaction similar to the one President Joe Biden received after his abysmal performance in a debate with Trump before he dropped out of the race.
That debate performance fueled concerns about Biden’s age and stamina, and on Saturday Swisher suggested Trump wants to avoid similar concerns.
“There have been several appearances in the last week where his cognitive issues were evident and so if he was pressured in any way or if that debate with Kamala Harris happened, he has issues,” she claimed. “We talked about it with Biden.
Left-wing podcaster Kara Swisher declared on Saturday that former President Donald Trump’s ‘cognitive challenges are apparent’
“It’s so clear from so many of his speeches this week that he’s at a loss for words and confusing people. He doesn’t want that contrast because she doesn’t,” Swisher continued.
“So he won’t appear at her place.”
Swisher’s claim came in response to Wallace asking his panel why they think the former president is “dodging” another debate with Harris, as well as a 60 Minutes interview he allegedly did alone.
“The fact is that presidential candidates are networking and having debates,” Wallace said. ‘Why is Trump avoiding a debate and a 60 Minutes [interview] when he’s going to do an interview alone?’
Manhattan Institute President Reihan Salam then offered his own perspective, arguing that these are the specific locations and outlets that Trump has difficulty with.
“With respect, if you think about 60 Minutes’ track record as a reporter for Donald Trump, I think he has reason to believe that. [it] it will not necessarily be a venue that will be completely fair and reasonable, just as Harris objects to his appearance on Fox,” Salam said.
Swisher said the former president has made several appearances where he forgets words and mixes people up
Trump himself has previously claimed that Harris only wants a second debate because she fears she is in a losing position.
“I beat Biden, then I beat her, and I don’t plan on doing it again, too far down the road,” he said. wrote this week on his Truth Social network.
‘Votes have already been cast – and I’m BIG in the polls.
“I will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, she is not capable of that,” he argued.
But the former president has made headlines in recent weeks for some of his more outrageous comments, including his claim during the debate that Haitian migrants eat pets in Ohio.
His performance during that debate left mental health experts “very concerned” about his cognitive skills, they told DailyMail.com.
“If a patient were to present to me the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer him for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive disease,” says Richard A Friedman from Weill. Cornell Medical College.
He wrote in the Atlantic that while Harris’ certainly showed some rigidity and repetition, her speech remained within the normal range of politicians, who have a reputation for harping on their favorite talking points.
“By contrast, Donald Trump’s statements about these trends were alarming.
‘He showed some striking, albeit familiar, patterns often seen in people with cognitive decline.’
She argued that Trump doesn’t want to face Vice President Kamala Harris because she doesn’t make those mistakes
Friedman noted that he watched the Philadelphia debate with an eye to the candidates’ “vocabulary, verbal and logical coherence, and ability to adapt to new topics.”
“Often following Trump’s line of thought was difficult, if not impossible,” he wrote. ‘Dodging the question is an age-old tactic to win debates. But Trump’s response appears to go beyond avoidance.
“It is both tangential, in the sense that it is completely irrelevant to the question, and indirect, in the sense that it is disjointed and never comes to a point.”
He also said Trump has failed to defend himself.
When Harris delivered his infamous “very fine people on both sides” comment about the 2017 white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump could have pointed out that even at the time he had specified: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists – because they must be totally condemned.”
“But he didn’t,” Friedman wrote.
Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician, insisted last year that the former president remains “incredibly sharp.”
‘He has a better memory than me, and than you. We all know this,” he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
But Friedman said the cognitive tests Trump claims to have passed are only intended to detect pronounced cognitive impairment.
“As such, they are quite easy to pass,” he wrote. ‘They ask simple questions like, “What is the date?” and challenge participants to spell the world backwards or write a complete sentence.’
“Only careful medical examination can determine whether someone does indeed have a diagnosable illness – simply observing Trump, or anyone else, from a distance is not enough,” the doctor said.
For those who have such diseases or conditions, a variety of treatments and services exist to help them and their loved ones cope with their decline.
“But that doesn’t mean any of them would be qualified to serve as commander in chief.”