The Trump dementia question: Does Trump have some screws loose? This is a serious subject. The illustration is meant for stress relief both for me and for my readers.

 

Mary Trump (article above) thinks her uncle has dementia. She may be correct, but she’s not an expert.

Donald Trump stated that he had an MRI as part of a routine physical and described the results as “outstanding,” although he admitted he did not know what specific body part was analyzed during the scan. We don’t even know if he had a brain MRI. If he did, it should be noted that an MRI cannot directly diagnose dementia, but it can reveal brain changes associated with different types of dementia, such as brain atrophy or lesions. It is often used to rule out other conditions that may cause similar symptoms.  Reference 1 / Reference 2 

Let’s get one thing straight. Neither Mary Trump, a clincial psychologist who only did psychotherapy with patients in her one year internship, nor I, a clincial social worker who diagnosed and treated patients for 40 year, are qualified to diagnose dementia. Neither is Duty to Warn founder Dr. John Gartner who has seen numerous psychotherapy patients. He says Trump has dementia (see, Trump’s ‘cognitive decline’ putting U.S. at ‘grave risk’) and is often quoted.

The experts at diagnosing dementia are neurologists, neuropsychologists, and some gerontologists.

I asked Chat-GTP whether neurologists think. Trump has dementia and this is what I got:

Do Neurologists Think Trump Has Dementia?

Opinions among neurologists and mental health professionals regarding Donald Trump’s cognitive health and potential dementia vary significantly, often influenced by political perspectives.

Current Evaluations and Opinions

1. Cognitive Screening Results:

   • Donald Trump has publicly mentioned taking the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a test designed to assess cognitive function. He has claimed to have received perfect scores, suggesting normal cognitive abilities. However, experts point out that this test is not intended to measure intelligence or IQ.

2. Expert Opinions:

   • Some neurologists and psychologists express concerns about Trump’s mental fitness, citing observable behaviors. For example, neurologist Dr. John Gartner has explicitly stated that he believes Trump shows signs of dementia, including memory and behavioral decline, particularly in comparison to earlier years.

   • On the contrary, Trump’s physician reported comprehensive evaluations indicating no abnormalities in his cognitive or neurological functions during his annual physical.

3. Public Perception and Media Commentary:

   • Public discourse often reflects divisions in opinion. Supporters may interpret Trump’s cognitive assessments positively, while critics cite instances of strange behavior or speech as indicative of cognitive decline.

   • Comments from figures like Cornell University psychologist Harry Segal have suggested that erratic behavior can signal “accelerating cognitive decline.”

4. Dementia Assessments vs. IQ Tests:

   • The confusion surrounding cognitive tests often arises from Trump’s characterization of them as “IQ tests.” Experts clarify that assessments like the MoCA are specifically designed for identifying cognitive impairments associated with conditions like dementia, not for evaluating general intelligence.

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Summary of Concerns

• While official tests show that Trump performs well on cognitive assessments, many experts raise alarms about his behavioral signs that could suggest cognitive decline. These assessments lead to ongoing debates about his mental health, particularly in the context of his political career. Given the sensitive nature of cognitive health issues, the discussions are often politically charged, reflecting broader divisions in public opinion

  Note that Dr. Gartner is referred to in this.

  article where he’s called a specialist.

  Dr. John Gartner, a specialist in the field, has observed that Trump, now 79, appears to be slowing down, with potential impairment in his motor skills. This observation follows sightings of Trump allegedly wearing a catheter under his right pant leg, which Gartner suggests could indicate the president is suffering from a specific type of dementia known as frontotemporal dementia.

  Unfortunately, as far as I can tell the actual experts in dementia who have come out to suggest there are signs Trump has dementia are few and none have become prominent. One whose name was not familiar to me until I began to research this Substack is Dr. Narinder Kapur, a consultant neuropsychologist and visiting professor at the University College London. He said that “the president’s behavior over the last six months has been ‘quite odd and strange,’ as reported by Express, UK. (Reference) In this article once again John Gartner is referred to as follows:

  Psychologist Dr. John Gartner, formerly of Johns Hopkins University, has tracked what he describes as a “major deterioration” in Trump’s language skills, motor skills, and impulse control. “If you go back and look at film from the 1980s, [Trump] actually was extremely articulate… now he really has trouble completing a thought and that is a huge deterioration,” Gartner told The Guardian.

  What we basically have is a number of mental health professionals from the neice of Donald Trump to well known names like John Gartner, with a smattering of actual experts in dementia, weighing in with speculation that Trump has dementia. So has psychologist Harry Segal (here) and here. This is based on their observations of behavior that is often seen in people with early dementia. 

  Mary Trump has an edge because she can compare his behavior to his father’s.

  Nobody is able to put a percentage on the likelihood he has any kind of dementia. This much is certain: 

• Trump claimed a quick test called the MOCA proves he has no cogntive impairment. This test cannot diagnose dementia with any degree of certainty. It can suggest someone might, but even passing it doesn’t prove they don’t. It also should be noted that if someone is so inclined they can take sample tests online. It’s possible someone close to Trump knew he’d be given this test and made sure he practiced taking it.

• Trump says he passed his MRI with flying colors. A brain MRI cannot rule dementia in or out.

Neurologists, especially those who specialize in treating dementia patients, neuropsychologists who are also qualified, and many gerontologists, have had ample opportunity to observe Trump on television. 

One expert to go public with an assessment of Trump’s possible cognitive impairment is neuroscientist Bobby Azarian. He explained how Trump and Biden’s cognitive impairments were different here. (See his website.)

He wrote:

As a neuroscientist myself, the question I’m mulling is whether Trump’s suspected brain damage is only in the area associated with speech production, known as Broca’s area, or also in the region associated with language comprehension, known as Wernicke’s area. The kind of paraphasia Trump is demonstrating, which does not involve a nonsensical pattern of words, is more likely to be a problem related to speech production, which is a less serious cognitive impairment.

The Trump-related gaffes that are much more concerning to me involve Trump confusing one person for another, in a way that is not just the result of a name slip, but an actual confusion of one person for another.

Even if a hundred of them issued a statement that urged that, based on what they have been seeing of him, they urge in the strongest possible terms that he undergo a complete assessment for dementia, it wouldn’t make any difference.

Here’s a Chat-gpt4 description of what this would entail:

Complete Dementia Assessment Components

A complete dementia assessment typically involves a comprehensive evaluations to determine cognitive function, behavioral changes, and other health issues. This process often includes several key components:

1. Medical History Review

• Patient History: Gathering information about cognitive decline, memory loss, and any other symptoms.

• Family History: Investigating any family history of dementia or neurological disorders.

• Current Medications: Reviewing all medications to identify any that may affect cognition.

2. Physical Examination

• Neurological Exam: Assessing reflexes, coordination, sensory perception, and motor skills.

• Vital Signs: Measuring blood pressure, heart rate, and other essential health metrics.

3. Cognitive Assessments

• Standardized Tests: Using tools like the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) or the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to evaluate memory, attention, and problem-solving abilities.

• Functional Assessments: Evaluating the ability to perform daily activities, which can provide insight into the extent of cognitive impairment.

4. Neuropsychological Testing

• This may include a more in-depth analysis of cognitive functions such as memory, language, and executive functioning, often conducted by a neuropsychologist.

5. Laboratory Tests

• Blood Tests: To rule out other causes of cognitive impairment (e.g., vitamin deficiencies, thyroid issues, infections).

• Imaging Studies: CT or MRI scans may be used to identify structural changes in the brain, such as atrophy associated with dementia.

6. Psychiatric Evaluation

• Assessment for Mood Disorders: Evaluating for depression or anxiety, which can coexist with dementia and complicate the diagnosis.

7. Caregiver and Family Input

• Gathering insights from family members or caregivers about changes in behavior or cognitive decline over time.

I wrote the following in January:

The crucial words are “may not have.” What has chnaged since then is that I see ore behavioral indications he may have dementia that I did in January. However, I continue to want to be tentative and not go out on a limb and say he probably has this tragic disease. If he does as I worte previously, time will tell since the disease always gets worse. 

As long as there are other explanations for his behavior some consider indications of dementia like stress or even a manic psychosis all we can do is wait and see.

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Trump, love, and stuff.

There are updates to this here.

Is Trump lovable or unlovable? I suppose it depends on who you ask. Mary Trump says the following:

"Nobody likes Donald. He's unlikable and he's unlovable." (Read article “Trump's psychologist niece spills about 'great trauma' that made him who he is” and listen to her interview here.)

If you ask, as I did, Perchance AI for an illustration of Trump on a Valentine’s Day card, aside from a few like the one on the top of this page, you come up with a rather unlovable looking fellow:

Perchance AI photo generator had its own “opinion” about who Trump really loves:

Many of the comments to the RawStory article, probably the majority since I haven’t read all 189 of them, lambast Trump in one way or another. For example from Kerry Kalvert:

Nature or nuture?

I have never encountered examples of a sewer rat born into a pack of cannibals grow up to be anything other than a cannibal.

It is a chicken or egg proposition.

But I am pretty sure if Trump’s mother was the virgin Mary and his brother was baby Jesus, baby Jesus would have been thrown out of the manger into the pig sty and we would not be infested with Christians.

Only a few address his psychopathology or the childhood experiences which shaped his malevolent personality. Some commenters suggest it is not relevant to understand him at all to which I respond with Sun Tzu’s dictum in “The Art of War” about how important it is to know the enemy, and oneself in order to be victorious.

One of the comments from a frequent RawStory commenter, Ricardo Santos, who I agree with follows.

Like I said many times, the motherfcker suffers from Mother issues (losing out on his bonding stage of development) which makes him needy, seeking approval, validation and adulation. As well as, being sociopathic having no empathy, bullying (defense mechanism) in getting what he wants, and being a serial killer. Though he does not actually do the killing, we saw that he is capable of doing, seeing millions die because of his Covid decisons. I asked and have been asking, will he beat his record of 1+ million Covid death, or beat Stalin's murdering of 20+ millions of his own citizens. Well, 16 people died from tornados 3 days ago do to lack of weather announcement, the airplane disasters occurring now, and how many have died because of the cancellation of the Foreign aid funding? Add the 30 million that are going to lose their Medicaid? He also suffers from Father issues, feelings of inadequacies (raping/sexually abusing women), though he is a narcissist displaying signs of self aggrandizement (I'm better than my generals, posting AI images of himself), never wrong but knowing he is a failure, intimidated by intellectual men and women who oppose him, because it reminds him of daddy dearest who rejected his incompetence! He carries so much hate and anger and he wants his revenge for being born. Like Doc Holiday said, "A man like Ringo (Trump) has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it." Or like Mary's book Titled says, "Too Much and Never Enough

Mary Trump said the following:

"Much of Donald's characterological disorder is based on the fact that he is an extremely weak person, and this is going to sound reductive but I promise you this is true, who has never gotten what he most needed and wanted in life, which is to be loved. That is still what he most needs and wants."

In his classic book “The Art of Loving” Eric Fromm writes in the preface: that the book does not provide instruction in what he terms the "art of loving", but rather argues that love, rather than a sentiment, is an artistic practice. Any attempt to love another is bound to fail, if one does not commit their total personality to learning and practicing loving. He states that "individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one's neighbour, without true humility, courage, faith and discipline." (Wikipedia)

I generally agree with Mary Trump but in this case I take issue with her when she says nobody likes her uncle and that he’s both unlikable and unlovable. She doesn’t take into consideration here that there are people who have their own pathological needs which developed when they were children for various reasons to love someone like Donald Trump. You can see this manifest in the extent to which they exhibit their feelings for him, to how much they fawn over him and seem to worship him. Some of course are kowtowing to him to curry his favor because he has power over them and they may actually dislike him, or even despise him. Some may dislike themselves for being so duplicitous, but I have no doubt that many of them have true feelings of what for them can reasonably be called love even if it is pathological. Maybe they never had a cold and distant father and crave any morsel of attention from Trump because he is a father figure to them.

If Trump could be unflinchingly honest with himself he’d realize that very few people in his life truly loved him. He’d see that the people who say they love him are attracted to his power and love him to satisfy there own needs, some healthy (Ivanka when she was a child comes to mind) and others for what I suspect are pathological reasons having to do with their own childhood experiences (Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laura Loomer, and many female members of his cult for example). It is debatable whether any of his wives loved him for healthy reasons.

Eva loved Adolph, so anything is possible.

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Lindsay Graham isn't a psychologist but his assessment of Trump is right on

 Lindsay Graham isn't a psychologist but his assessment of Trump is right on

By Hal Brown, MSW

Background by DonkeyHotey

This story is making the news today:

HUFFPOST article above

On the face of it this isn't surprising. The fact that Lindsay Graham,  testifying during a special grand jury investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn his defeat in Georgia, said that “if somebody had told Trump that aliens came down and stole Trump ballots, that Trump would’ve believed it," isn't really my point. Politically, Graham doesn't run for the Senate until his current term expires in 2027 so apparently he doesn't believe saying this about Trump will hurt his election chances.

Trump has turned curious critics into armchair psychologists. Until he came along the average American not familiar with psychological concepts who reads articles by and interviews with mental health professionals became familiar with several syndromes. They may have looked up malignant narcissism, dark triad, and Dunning-Kruger effect on Wikipedia when they decided that the best way to defeat one's enemy was to fully understand him. 

Do a Google image search for Trump in strait jacket and this is what comes up (click images to enlarge):

Trump was such a candidate for mockery because of his unhingedness, but the seriousness of his mental state tended to be overlooked or minimized by those who should have known better. 

When the book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" was published the editor, Yale University forensic psychiatrist Bandy Lee, went to Washington, met with a dozen members of Congress, and made sure every Democrat in Congress had a copy. (See Yale psychiatrist briefed members of Congress on Trump’s mental fitness , CNN (Jan. 5, 2018)

The first mental health professional to publish an article explaining why Trump's malignant narcissism made him dangerous was the founder of Duty To Warn and who made the documentary #UNFIT clinical psychologist John Gartner in Donald Trump's malignant narcissism is toxic, USA Today, (May 4, 2017).

It wasn't merely mental health professionals who warned about Trump's dangerous psychopathy. George Conway is a prominent example: Donald Trump's Pathological Narcissism and Sociopathy Leave Him Unable to Function as a Proper President, Says George Conway, Newsweek, (10/3/19)

In the summer of 2020 Trump's psychologist niece wrote her book and went on a media tour and has since been a prominent critic of her uncle.

In 2022 it was revealed that John Kelly read "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and came to believe he was "pathological liar whose inflated ego" was the sign of a "deeply insecure person,” according to upcoming book "The Divider." (LINK).

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The first article about Trump being a narcissist by a mental health professional,  Northwestern University psychologist Dan P. McAdams, as far as I can tell, was in The Atlantic in June, 2016 I won't put a link because if you click you will use a free read unless you have a subscription. You can read a summary of the article for free here.

I wrote many articles about Trump's psychopatholgy first published on Capitol Hill Blue and then posted on Daily Kos. In Sept. 2022 I used this image of a Google search page for  Trump mentally ill in a Daily Kos posting:

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Bottom line: Trump has amply demonstrated that in addition to sharing the authoritarian and white supremacist beliefs of Ron DeSantos he is manifestly psychologically unstable. There is no way someone like him should be within 100 miles of the nuclear football.

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Mainstream media fails to warn that Trump aspires to be a fascist warlord

Mainstream media fails to warn that Trump aspires to be a fascist warlord

by Hal Brown

Comment on my stories on Facebook (here) or on Twitter (here). Stories that pique my interest through the day are down the page.

Salon's Chauncey DeVega once again tried to sound the alarm about just how dangerous Donald Trump is. Unfortunately Salon's alarm bell isn't nearly loud enough to wake democracy loving Americans  up so they do something to stop it.

His message can be summarized in just the first two and the last paragraphs. 

Donald Trump aspires to be a warlord. He publicly admires despots, tyrants and other authoritarian leaders who kill their enemies and take away the rights of anyone who oppose them. Mental health professionals have repeatedly warned that Donald Trump is likely a sociopath with an erotic attraction to violence and mayhem.

He has repeatedly shown that he has no regard for the rule of law, democracy, human rights or other restrictions on his behavior. He encourages his followers and allies to engage in acts of terrorism and other violence on his behalf. The most notable example came, of course, on Jan. 6, 2021. To this point, Trump has been limited by his cowardice. He prefers to have others engage in violence on his behalf instead of directly ordering such acts or participating in them himself.

This was the lead story in Salon this morning:

By way of comparison this was the lead on FoxNews' website this morning:

Alas, Salon's influence is less than nil when it comes to swaying opinion among the people whose eyes to the growing menace of Trumpian fascism in America couldn't be more tightly closed.

The story has been cross-published on RawStory (here) where it is trending and has, as of this writing, 167 comments. 

I have written extensively about Trump being a dangerous malignant narcissist who revels in violent fantasies. In fact just the other day Trump's writing about Mitch McConnell having a "DEATH WISH" prompted me to write this story showing him as I think he fantasizes himself:

I am alway interested in what other mental health professionals have had to say about him, particularly the only one who knows him up close and personal. Chauncy DeVega quoted Mary Trump in his story.

I wanted to put her words into an illustration showing an angry Trump so I looked "angry Trump" up on DuckDuckGo and the Salon article came up first:

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Here are the words I wanted to highly with the photo:

Chauncey DeVega concludes his article as follows:

Aspiring warlord Donald Trump has told America and the world exactly what he and his movement intend to do. Unfortunately, the mainstream news media and other hope-peddlers have deluded themselves into thinking that it's all a misunderstanding or harmless hyperbole. We should take Trump at his word. On these issues, he does not prevaricate or tell lies. It will do no good to protest that you couldn't possibly have known. We all knew this was coming, and now it's here.

If the crisis to democracy isn't here right now it certainly is around the corner. Like Putin having amassed his troops for their so-called military exercise on the borders of Ukraine, Trump has readied his soldiers to do battle.  The signs are there. How big do they have to get?

Whether it's the Boy Scout motto, Miguel de Cervantes, or the proverb "to be forewarned is to be forearmed" the message is the same...

Afterword:

The proverb "to be forewarned is to be forearmed" should be applicable to Donald Trump.  For proverb and idiom mavens (from this website):

Many idioms that have no obvious source are often referred to, for no good reason, as 'old proverbs'. 'Forewarned is forearmed' has a genuine claim to be called such, as it dates from at least the end of the 16th century, and could be much earlier. The Latin saying 'praemonitus, praemunitus' loosely translates as 'forewarned is forearmed'. There's no evidence to show that the English proverb is merely a translation of the Latin though. The two sayings could easily have originated independently.

The meaning of the proverb is quite straightforward and literal - so long as it is understood that forearm is here the archaic verb meaning 'to arm in advance', rather than the noun forearm, that is, the part of the arm between the elbow and wrist. The saying is so straightforward in fact that it was originally simply 'forewarned, forearmed'. It is found in that form in Robert Greene's A Notable Discovery of Coosnage (a.k.a. The Art of Conny-catching), 1592:

"forewarned, forearmed: burnt children dread the fire."

Stories of the day that piqued my interest.

This article came out in February. It is now even more relevant than it was then:

The hypothetical look into what happens if Trump goes to prison

Here’s Hoping Elon Musk Destroys Twitter, by Ross Doughat (NY Times, Subscription)

The essay begins:

“I strongly supported Obama for President,” Elon Musk tweeted late last month, part of the spree of ideological comments accompanying his continuing takeover of Twitter, “but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.” Around the same time, he set the social-media platform ablaze by reposting a cartoon showing a stick figure comfortably on the center-left in 2008 redefined as a right-wing bigot by 2021 because the left-wing stick figure had raced way off to the left. Then this week, he expressed the same kind of thought in the abbreviated style for which the site is famous: “Twitter obv has a strong left wing bias.”

And now, at last, we have the news that he’s likely to allow Donald Trump to tweet freely once again.

All of these comments and promises align the country’s richest man with the rightward side in our culture war. But though I don’t know Musk — I’ve never interviewed him or hung out with him in any secret billionaire lair — I think I know enough about him, and I know enough Silicon Valley people like him, to suggest that neither his tweeted self-descriptions nor the criticisms being lobbed his way capture what’s distinctive about his position and worldview.

A term like “conservative” doesn’t fit the Tesla tycoon; even “libertarian,” while closer to the mark, associates Musk with a lot of ideas that I don’t think he particularly cares about. A better label comes from Virginia Postrel, in her 1998 book “The Future and Its Enemies”: Musk is what she calls a “dynamist,” meaning someone whose primary commitments are to exploration and discovery, someone who believes that the best society is one that’s always inventing, transforming, doing something new.

If you think this sounds uncontroversial, think again. First, the dynamist may not care where novelty and invention spring from: Unlike the purist libertarian, he might be indifferent to questions of public versus private spending, happy to embrace government help if that’s what it takes to get the new thing off the ground — and happy to take that help from regimes like Communist China no less than from our own. And he may be willing to risk much more than either the typical progressive or the typical conservative for the sake of innovation. Political principle, social stability and moral order are all potentially negotiable when discovery alone is your North Star.

My comment:

Full disclosure: I have a Twitter account which I primarily use to try to promote stories I post on my blog. I fully expect Musk to allow Trump to resume tweeting. Aside from the negative of handing a victory of sorts to Trump, there are two positives. The lesser is that if he personally invested money in Truth Social that is gone since that platform will immediately go under. The greater positive is that every time he tweets something off the wall or outrageous (which will be most of the time) there will be numerous sarcastic, scathing, and snarky replies, some with contemptuous, mocking, and ridiculing illustrations which will be posted in articles about his tweet.

Related from BuzzFeed

We were on...

"Have you ever had a friend who’s had one of those on-again-off-again relationships, like a less cute Ross and Rachel situation?"

 Excerpts:

.... it was easy to imagine Republicans launching apoplectic broadsides in response to Biden’s sweeping and progressive pardons. The public would inevitably hear tired clichés about Democrats being “soft on crime” and failing to appreciate the seriousness of “gateway drugs.”

And yet, in the wake of Biden’s announcement, the Republican National Committee had literally nothing to say about it. The National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee were silent, too.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also completely ignored the developments.

To be sure, it’d be an exaggeration to suggest that all Republicans sat on their hands. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who routinely complains that not enough Americans are behind bars, made sure to register his disapproval yesterday. So did one of Fox News’ prime-time hosts.

But by any fair measure, the GOP apparently thought that the smart election season move yesterday would be to let Biden’s pardons go unmentioned.

My own opinion on this is that the timing coming prior to the November elections is smart. Biden has been characterized by the Right as being old and out of touch with the younger generations which these days seems to mean anyone not on Social Security. In the case of marijuana there are numerous potential voters left, right, and center who have used it in the past or who currently used it. Whether any of them are inclined to vote Republican might change their mind based on this issue alone is hard to say. However, it can't hurt and it may very well help some Democrats in close races.

Excerpts:

"...if God Himself actually tells you (to kill someone), and He’s like, 'Hey, I am the ultimate governor of all of life, and I have judicially said that person is going to die, and I’m telling you to do it,' yeah," Winger said. "Now, historically, as a Christian, do I expect this to happen? Not really.

He later backtracks:

 "So, as a Christian, in principle, if God tells you to kill someone, yes, you should. It’s God."

"But in practical reality, I really don’t expect this to happen," he continued. "Not that there could never be an exception, but if anybody comes up to me, and says, 'God told me to kill so-and-so,' my default is to think they’re probably wrong, because there’s a lot more weirdos out there than there are people that God is telling to do something like that. There’s my answer."

Basically he's saying that it is "weirdos" who hear God telling them to kill people. In fact, anybody who actually hears voices whether they believe they come from God or a teapot is mentally ill. It doesn't matter whether the voices tell them to adhere to Christian values or run naked in the street, they are still auditory hallucinations.

This is bad news for the FBI and in particular Trump appointee FBI Director Wray:

Read article about this in RawStory. It isn't just Director Gray that is under fire. Attorney General Garland is also being harshly criticized for the way is, or isn't, handling the documents investigation.

You probably don't read The Bulwark. If you don't look at from time to time you miss stories like this:

Excerpt:

Masters was asked, point blank, if he thought the 2020 election was “stolen” or “rigged—in any way, shape, or form—enough to keep Donald Trump out of the White House,” and Masters replied:

I suspect that if the FBI didn’t work with Big Tech and Big Media to censor the Hunter Biden crime story, yeah, I suspect that changed a lot of people’s votes. I suspect President Trump would be in the White House today if Big Tech and Big Media and the FBI didn’t work together to put the thumb on the scale to get Joe Biden in there.

Trump is 'daring the DOJ to come and get him' over more missing documents: NYT's Haberman...

She said ""The Trump team is basically daring the DOJ, once again, to come get him and we'll see what the DOJ does."

I am very skeptical this comes from Trump's team of lawyers telling him what they know is in his best interests. It may be another "team" of sycophants. If he hears it from his lawyers they are telling him what he wants to hear. I think this comes form Trump and is absolutely predictable because he is a malignant narcissist with seriously impaired judgment. He revels in the thought of a confrontation where he, in his grandiose delusional state, which he thinks he will win. He's bought into his own propaganda, into the iconography produced by artists hawking their wares to his cult.

Here's a name from the past that I bet you forgot about:

Harvey Weinstein’s Second Trial For Rape And Sexual Assault Charges Begins Next Week. Here’s What You Need To Know.

After being convicted of sexually assaulting two women in New York, the former movie producer is facing criminal charges related to five other women in Los Angeles.

Oregon news: 

This is bad, very very bad...