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5. Kurt Eichenwald of Newsweek has been tracking this pathology with #45.
Sun Mar 19, 2017, 07:51 AM
Mar 2017

The link below is from February 4, so you'd have to add all the wiretapping bullshit. If he's unable distinguish between actual truth and his whoppers, then the man is in dire need of psychiatric care.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.newsweek.com/trump-difference-truth-lies-552292%3Famp%3D1
CAN TRUMP TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND HIS LIES?
Newsweek
By Kurt Eichenwald
Saturday, February 4, 2017
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Nothing in the headlines these days is more important than this: The President of the United States is divorced from reality, unable to tell the difference between the truth and what he wants to be true. In August, much of the American press finally broke out the word “lie” to describe many of Trump’s statements, but that’s not enough. Reporters must now press the president to explain if he believes these statements to be true and why. Plenty of politicians deceive, but one who cannot discern reality from fiction is dangerous.
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No rational person could believe this. That leaves two possibilities: Trump intentionally dispenses falsehoods any smart person knows will be detected as lies, or worse, he cannot discern between reality and what he wishes was true. During his first White House interview, Trump told ABC News that two people were shot in Chicago as former President Barack Obama gave his farewell speech; the Chicago Tribune proved there were no such shootings. Then there are his statements of undeniable falsity, such as when he asked in a tweet on December 12 why no one had brought up the issue of Russian interference in the presidential election until after he won. But he stood on a stage 54 days earlier dismissing the intelligence community’s assessment of the Russian hacking. Was he knowingly lying? Or is Trump’s memory so poor that he could not remember a statement he made—or even that a discussion had taken place—about whether America was under cyberattack by a foreign power? Or, worst of all, did he not know what he said and tweeted was untrue?
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