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TFG is deteriorating more and more by the day. (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2023 OP
Make it complete. sheshe2 Oct 2023 #1
I want this man calguy Oct 2023 #2
Be very careful what you wish for Hekate Oct 2023 #3
I feel a trump nomination will result in a huge defeat for republicans calguy Oct 2023 #4
Agreed. The election is about a year away and he's getting worse... brush Oct 2023 #12
That's what we said last time. :( Irish_Dem Oct 2023 #16
That's what people said, except *just* enough didn't follow through. W_HAMILTON Oct 2023 #19
This isn't last time calguy Oct 2023 #20
Yep. People never learn. Irish_Dem Oct 2023 #21
That Orange Turd lost last time and will lose like a stuck fucking shitbag. SoFlaBro Oct 2023 #32
I wanted him to win it in 2016. It didn't work out the way I wanted n/t Captain Stern Oct 2023 #17
He needs to be sane enough to go to prison. LiberalFighter Oct 2023 #5
Trump Glitches Again During Speech, Concerns Over Cognitive Decline Grow LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2023 #6
He's scheduled to testify a week from Monday in the New York AG case. rsdsharp Oct 2023 #7
No 5th Amendment in a civil trial leftieNanner Oct 2023 #8
You can invoke the Fifth Amendment in a civil trial. rsdsharp Oct 2023 #10
Actually he can plead the fifth, Progressive dog Oct 2023 #11
The trier of fact is allowed to draw negative inferences from the invocation of the 5th Amendment LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2023 #15
Adderall can cause brain damage JohnQFunk Oct 2023 #9
Is there a longer clip? Just about anyone slips up here and there Quixote1818 Oct 2023 #13
Trump: Terrortism-- terror-- what, what you're doing-- the... terrorism LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2023 #14
Not quickly enough . . . hatrack Oct 2023 #18
"If I just act noisily outraged ..." struggle4progress Oct 2023 #22
I seriously wonder how he hasn't been the victim of a massive coronary yet. Initech Oct 2023 #23
And he has they nerve to call others "old", "senile" etc. BigmanPigman Oct 2023 #24
Trump: A very big hello to a place where we've done very well, Sioux Falls (He's in Sioux City) LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2023 #25
Wow. He's only one state off. Chellee Oct 2023 #27
What will be the last part remaining? GreenWave Oct 2023 #26
I'm sure that hair can live on it's own. Chellee Oct 2023 #28
LOL! GreenWave Oct 2023 #31
Not fast enough, though. Ocelot II Oct 2023 #29
I wonder. ChazInAz Oct 2023 #30
Trump's Descent Into a Senile Old Man LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2023 #33
'Trump has become more detached from reality': ABC host raises alarm as election nears LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2023 #34

calguy

(6,154 posts)
4. I feel a trump nomination will result in a huge defeat for republicans
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 06:06 PM
Oct 2023

up and down the ballot.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
12. Agreed. The election is about a year away and he's getting worse...
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 06:56 PM
Oct 2023

by the day. The many court appearances and campaign stops witll just further aggravate his decline.

Woohoo, bring on the repug nomination, and a huge Democrati win.

W_HAMILTON

(10,333 posts)
19. That's what people said, except *just* enough didn't follow through.
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 08:17 PM
Oct 2023

They thought they could sit home, or cast idiotic protest votes, etc. because no one believed Trump could actually win.

Meanwhile, Trump's campaign was colluding with Russia and Putin and his troll farms were working overtime to get his puppet elected.

It was a confluence of factors -- never forget what Comey did, what the New York times did in claiming the FBI had no evidence of Trump campaign's Russian ties, etc. -- that led to him winning by *just* enough votes. Since then, he and his Republicans have been getting mostly beat up and down the ballot because everyone realizes the real threat they pose and no longer take them for granted.

This won't change in 2024.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,868 posts)
6. Trump Glitches Again During Speech, Concerns Over Cognitive Decline Grow
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 06:13 PM
Oct 2023

TFG's mental decline is becoming more and more obvious



https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-glitches-again-during-speech-concerns-over-cognitive-decline-grow

As Donald Trump delivered his remarks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Conference, he appeared to glitch as he was unable to say the word 'terrorism.'

Trump: 'Terrortism—terror—what, what you're doing—terrorism.'

Trump's latest glitch adds to an expanding list of gaffes that call into question his mental fitness. He recently stated that Viktor Orbán is the leader of Turkey. Orbán is the Prime Minister of Hungary.

During the same speech, Trump delivered a bizarre rant suggesting he was the first person to notice 'us' and 'U.S.' were similar and that no one would give him credit for that 'genius' discovery.


rsdsharp

(12,002 posts)
7. He's scheduled to testify a week from Monday in the New York AG case.
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 06:28 PM
Oct 2023

Other than his three minutes on the stand earlier this week for violating the gag order, I don’t believe he has ever testified live in court (I could be wrong). Unless he just invokes the Fifth Amendment, it would not surprise me if he starts to jibber, drool and throw his own Depends.

leftieNanner

(16,159 posts)
8. No 5th Amendment in a civil trial
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 06:40 PM
Oct 2023

He can't hide.

His stress level must be intense.

Good.

rsdsharp

(12,002 posts)
10. You can invoke the Fifth Amendment in a civil trial.
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 06:47 PM
Oct 2023

The trier of fact (in this case the judge) can take a negative inference from it, but he can invoke it. In fact, he invoked it nearly 450 times when he was deposed by the AG.

Progressive dog

(7,603 posts)
11. Actually he can plead the fifth,
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 06:52 PM
Oct 2023

He already did plead it over 440 times in a deposition for the NY A.G.'s trial.
Since the trial is civil, taking the fifth can be used against him.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,868 posts)
15. The trier of fact is allowed to draw negative inferences from the invocation of the 5th Amendment
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 07:09 PM
Oct 2023

In TFG's second depo, TFG did not take the 5th and made some admissions that were used against him

Quixote1818

(31,155 posts)
13. Is there a longer clip? Just about anyone slips up here and there
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 07:04 PM
Oct 2023

Looks bad but I would like to see a longer clip.

hatrack

(64,887 posts)
18. Not quickly enough . . .
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 07:50 PM
Oct 2023

There's never flesh-eating bacteria or brain-eating amoebas around when you really need them.

Initech

(108,783 posts)
23. I seriously wonder how he hasn't been the victim of a massive coronary yet.
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 11:04 PM
Oct 2023

Consuming all that hate and rage 24 hours a day like he does can't be good for you.

BigmanPigman

(55,137 posts)
24. And he has they nerve to call others "old", "senile" etc.
Sun Oct 29, 2023, 12:14 AM
Oct 2023

Projection

Maybe he will stroke out on live TV as he rants and raves about the unjust justice system. He makes Mitch look like a healthy man.

I will celebrate like never before when that happens

ChazInAz

(3,017 posts)
30. I wonder.
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 10:34 AM
Oct 2023

Does anyone else think his handlers keep him refrigerated between appearances...just to prevent parts from falling off?
Rather like HP Lovecraft's story "Cool Air".

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,868 posts)
34. 'Trump has become more detached from reality': ABC host raises alarm as election nears
Sun Nov 5, 2023, 10:05 PM
Nov 2023

TFG has been showing signs of senility for some time and this detachment from reality is getting worse.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-detached-reality/

During the ABC "This Week" roundtable panel discussion on poll numbers matching up President Joe Biden against presumptive GOP 2024 presidential nominee Donald Trump, host Jonathan Karl complained that there has not been near enough attention paid to the mental decline of Trump......

"Trump, since he left the White House, and this is really the theme of my book, has become more detached from reality than he ever was even in the White House," he claimed.

To make his case, he continued, "If you think of where we were in January of 2021, that's the starting point for where a Trump presidency would be next time around. So I think he's had largely, believe it or not, a free ride. Again, the criminal cases we know about, but what he's thinking, what he's doing, he had a speech just the other day in Texas where he referred to the people that are in prison because they attacked the U.S. Capitol and beat up police officers, he called them not prisoners but hostages."

"Trump has become also increasingly confused about things. He sometimes he thinks that he lost to [Barack] Obama in the last election," he offered. "He confuses basic facts and says some rather strange things, but there isn't much attention paid. As we get closer to these primaries, we'll see where not just Trump is based on these criminal cases, but where he is now as a human being."
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