A left-wing podcast host made a surprising claim about former President Donald Trump’s mental health while arguing that he is “dodging” Vice President Kamala Harris in the debates.
New York Magazine podcaster Kara Swisher declared Saturday that Trump’s “cognitive challenges are clear” after another panelist on CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show defended the former president’s decision not to have another debate with the vice president.
He claimed that Trump, 78, is ‘dodging’ another debate with Harris, 59, in an effort to avoid a backlash similar to what President Joe Biden received after his dismal performance in a debate with Trump before he would abandon the race.
That debate performance fueled concerns about Biden’s age and stamina, and on Saturday, Swisher suggested that Trump wants to avoid similar concerns.
“This last week, there have been several appearances where his cognitive challenges are clear, so when he’s pressed in some way or when that debate with Kamala Harris happened, he struggles,” she said. ‘We talked about it with Biden.
Left-wing podcaster Kara Swisher declared Saturday that former President Donald Trump’s “cognitive challenges are clear.”
‘It’s so clear in many of his speeches this week that he loses words, he confuses people. “He doesn’t want that contrast because she doesn’t do that,” Swisher continued.
“So he’s not going to appear near her.”
Swisher’s statement came in response to Wallace asking his panel why they think the former president is “avoiding” another debate with Harris, as well as a 60 Minutes interview he would have done alone.
“The fact is that presidential candidates go online and have debates,” Wallace said. “Why is Trump avoiding a debate and a 60-minute (interview) when he’s going to have an interview alone?”
Manhattan Institute President Reihan Salam offered his own perspective, arguing that it is the specific places and media that Trump takes issue with.
“Respectfully, if you think about 60 Minutes’ history of covering Donald Trump, I think they have reason to believe that it’s not necessarily going to be a place that’s going to be completely fair and reasonable, just like Harris has objections to appearing on Fox,” Salam said.
Swisher said the former president has made several appearances in which he forgets words and confuses people.
Trump himself has previously claimed that Harris only wants a second debate because she fears being in a losing position.
“I beat Biden, then I beat her, and I’m not going to do it again, far from it,” he said. he wrote on his Truth Social network this week.
‘The votes are already cast – And I’m ahead in the polls.
“I will make America great again, she is incapable of doing it,” he argued.
But the former president has made headlines in recent weeks for some of his most outrageous comments, including his claim in the debate that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Ohio.
His performance in that debate left mental health experts “very concerned” about his cognitive abilities, they told DailyMail.com.
“If a patient presented to me with 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 cognitive illness,” said Weill’s Richard A. Friedman. Cornell Medical College.
He wrote in the atlantic that while Harris “certainly displayed some rigidity and repetition, her speech remained within the normal realm of politicians, who have a reputation for harping on their favorite talking points.”
‘On the contrary, Donald Trump’s expressions about these trends were alarming.
“It showed some surprising, yet familiar, patterns commonly seen among people with cognitive impairment.”
He argued that Trump does not want to face Vice President Kamala Harris because she does not make those mistakes
Friedman noted that he watched the debate in Philadelphia paying attention to the candidates’ “vocabulary, verbal and logical coherence, and ability to adapt to new issues.”
“Most of the time, following Trump’s train of thought was difficult, if not impossible,” he wrote. ‘Avoiding the question is an ancient tactic for winning debates. But Trump’s response appears to go beyond evasion.
“It is both tangential, in the sense that it is completely irrelevant to the issue, and circumstantial, in the sense that it rambles and never comes to a point.”
He also said Trump did not defend himself.
“When Harris raised her infamous ‘very good people on both sides’ comment regarding the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump could have pointed out that even at the time, she had specified: ‘I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists, because they should be totally condemned.
“But he didn’t,” Friedman wrote.
Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, a former White House doctor, insisted last year that the former president remains “incredibly sharp.”
He has a better memory than me and you. “We all know that,” he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
But Friedman said the cognitive tests Trump claims to have approved are only designed to detect pronounced cognitive dysfunction.
“As such, they are fairly easy to approve,” he wrote. ‘They ask simple questions like “What’s the date?” and challenge participants to spell world upside down or write a complete sentence.’
“Only a careful medical examination can determine whether someone truly has a diagnosable illness; simply observing Trump or anyone else from afar is not enough,” the doctor said.
For those suffering from such diseases or conditions, there are various treatments and services to help them and their loved ones cope with their deterioration.
“But that doesn’t mean any of them are qualified to serve as commander in chief.”