Doctor Raises Alarm Over Trump Dementia

Trump almost blurts out classified intelligence; Republicans unhappy about ICE detention camps in their districts; the DOJ is lying about voting data to courts

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Tonight: a senior medical analyst says the president is exhibiting “all the signs of dementia.” A general had to physically stop Trump from announcing classified troop numbers on live TV. Republicans who voted for mass deportation are now begging Trump not to put concentration camps in their towns. And the DOJ lied to a federal judge about what it’s doing with the personal data of millions of American voters.

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A Doctor Is Raising the Alarm. The Signs Are Getting Harder to Ignore.

Let’s start with Easter Sunday, when the president posted an expletive-laden threat to bomb Iranian power plants, signed it “Praise be to Allah,” skipped church, toured Washington in a motorcade, and then golfed. When the blowback came, the White House posted a video of an artist painting Jesus.

MS NOW senior medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta watched all of this and wrote on X: “Erratic. Can’t finish sentences. Often confused. Illogical train of thought. Word finding difficulties. Developing and worsening gradually over time. The President is exhibiting all the signs of dementia.”

Gupta has been raising these concerns for months. After Trump’s appearance at Davos in February, he noted the president’s family history (Trump’s father died at 93 from pneumonia complicated by Alzheimer’s) and said he was seeing a “trend line” that “seems like it’s getting worse.”

Trump’s own niece told a podcast she looks at him now and sees her grandfather: “I see that same look of confusion. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating.”

Most telling is the cognitive testing. Trump has bragged about “acing” the Montreal Cognitive Assessment three times. Gupta wasn’t impressed: “Those that tend to do MoCA tests with that level of frequency, usually we’re worried about early-stage dementia.”

Psychologist Dr. John Gartner was blunter: “If you’re giving it to him three times, that means you’re not assessing dementia. That means you’re monitoring dementia.”

The White House spent the weekend denying Trump had been hospitalized at Walter Reed after he vanished from public view for twelve hours. Whether he was or wasn’t, the fact the question is being asked at all tells you something about where we are.

‘I’d Love to Keep That a Secret’

Today, Trump held a press conference about the rescue of two downed American airmen in Iran. Things were going well until Trump prepared to announce the exact number of troops involved in a classified military operation — live, on television, to the entire world, including Iran.

His own Joint Chiefs chairman had to intervene.

“How many men did you send altogether? Approximately?” Trump asked the general.

“I’d love to keep that a secret,” General Caine replied.

“I’ll keep it a secret,” Trump said, before announcing it was “hundreds and hundreds.” He then looked at the general and said, “Is he central casting?”

His response to being told not to disclose classified information was to disclose the approximate number anyway, wrap it in the word “secret,” and then compliment the general’s jawline.

Dementia? That’s the Commander-in-Chief of the United States armed forces. Declining in real time.

Republicans Discover Concentration Camps Are Less Popular When They’re in Your Town

Republicans spent years demanding mass deportations. They voted for it. They funded it, slating forty-five billion dollars specifically for detention. They cheered at every rally and named legislation after murder victims to make sure the cameras kept rolling.

And yet: they don’t love the part where the federal government converts warehouses in their own communities into detention camps. Camps holding up to ten thousand people, larger than the biggest federal prison in America.

Republican senators from Tennessee and Mississippi personally lobbied DHS to locate the camps somewhere else. The GOP governor of New Hampshire released internal documents showing the full scope of the plan.

A city manager in a Georgia town that gave Trump 70% of the vote put a lock on the water meter at a planned ten-thousand-person facility. A facility which would double the town’s entire population.

Experts note these facilities will strain infrastructure and will almost certainly result in more deaths in custody. Communities have now successfully blocked thirteen of the proposed sites.

It’s almost as if the policy was always meant to happen to other people’s communities. Funny how that works.

The DOJ Lied to a Federal Judge About Your Personal Data

The DOJ has been demanding unredacted voter roll data from states across the country: Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, dates of birth, home addresses. Forty-eight states received letters. Thirty have been sued when they refused.

Last week in Rhode Island, the DOJ’s own lawyer told a federal judge the agency had done nothing with the data it already had.

“We have not done anything yet,” he said.

This wasn’t true. Days later he filed a document admitting the department had already been pooling and analyzing the data to identify voting irregularities ahead of the midterms, using a team selected not for legal expertise, but for loyalty to the president.

They lied to a federal judge about what they were doing with your personal data. Then they filed paperwork admitting it. Trump has since signed an executive order directing DHS to build a national voter database, and the DOJ has confirmed it’s willing to share what it’s collected.

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