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More Trouble for GOP as Mainstream Media Debates Trump’s Mental Health
By Hrafnkell Haraldsson on Sat, Aug 6th, 2016 at 3:27 pm
Reactions to an American president who not only says but does things from a position of apparent insanity, can never mean good things for the United States
It has been building since Trump entered the race: his increasingly erratic rhetoric has at last drawn the steady eye of the mainstream media, which finds it can no longer simply ignore him. We have recently been introduced to the rare spectacle of the mainstream media fact-checking Trump real-time. And now, perhaps, talk of Trump’s mental health now promotes better ratings than simply giving Trump air time.
We have seen a lot of eyebrows raised on all sides of late as speculation grows that Trump is not quite right in the head, and then Peggy Noonan broke down all the barriers in an op-ed in The Washington Post, The Week They Decided Donald Trump Was Crazy.
“Here is a truth of life. When you act as if you’re insane, people are liable to think you’re insane. That’s what happened this week. People started to become convinced he was nuts, a total flake.”
This brought about a discussion on MSNBC:
Which was followed Friday night by another discussion on CNN, with Outfront host Erin Burnett, asking her guests what they thought about Trump’s mental health:
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