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« on: June 22, 2020, 06:10:15 PM »

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The early June meeting in the Cabinet Room was intended as a general update on President Trump’s reelection campaign, but the president had other topics on his mind.

Trump had taken a cognitive screening test as part of his 2018 physical, and now, more than two years later, he brought up the 10-minute exam. He waxed on about how he’d dazzled the proctors with his stellar performance, according to two people familiar with his comments. He walked the room of about two dozen White House and reelection officials through some of the questions he said he’d aced, such as being able to repeat five words in order.

At the time, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment — which includes animal pictures and other simple queries aimed at detecting mild cognitive impairment such as dementia — was intended to quell questions about Trump’s mental fitness. But in recalling it, Trump said he thought presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden would never be able to pass it and suggested challenging him to take the test, said the people familiar with Trump’s comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share private details.

The seeming non sequitur was part of Trump’s growing preoccupation in recent weeks over perceptions of his mental and physical health, at a time when critics have mocked him for episodes in which they say he has appeared frail or confused. The attacks Trump has previously levied against Biden — dismissing the former vice president as “Sleepy Joe,” secreted away in his basement and enfeebled — have boomeranged back on him, as opponents have seized on Trump’s own missteps to raise concerns.

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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2020, 06:20:13 PM »

This hurts him because he is spending a lot of money to convince voters that it is Biden is not mentally fit to be president 

he undercuts that message every time he himself is seen as someone who is having health and mental  issues

honesty a younger and healthier GOP candidate could have made the case about Biden health or age but Trump is simply the wrong guy to make the type of augment 
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« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2020, 06:22:28 PM »

Biden doesn't feel the need to spend 20 minutes explaining in excruciating detail why he had trouble walking down a ramp or drinking a glass of water.
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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2020, 06:24:01 PM »

The Streisand Trump Effect makes yet another appearance! He will never learn.
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