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cab67

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Mon Sep 9, 2019, 02:33 PM Sep 2019

Yeah, about the Orange One's mental decline - [View all]

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that the president's cognitive faculties have been on the downswing. The amount of sense he makes when he talks - never large to begin with - is shrinking. His behavior seems increasingly erratic.

What impact might this have on future attempts to prosecute him, either for crimes committed while in office or before?

I'm serious about this. I wonder if a good lawyer could get a judge to rule him unfit to stand trial.

I'm not talking about an insanity defense. I'm talking about legal professionals deciding that Trump is mentally incapable of defending himself in a court of law.

I recall this being the subject of discussion in the aftermath of Iran-Contra; there were concerns that Reagan's Alzheimer's was advanced enough to render him untriable.


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