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    Trump Is Not Well

    Accepting the reality about the president’s disordered personality is important—even essential.
    by Peter Wehner Sep 09, 2019 4 minutes
    Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

    During the 2016 campaign, I received a phone call from an influential political journalist and author, who was soliciting my thoughts on Donald Trump. Trump’s rise in the Republican Party was still something of a shock, and he wanted to know the things I felt he should keep in mind as he went about the task of covering Trump.

    At the top of my list: Talk to psychologists and psychiatrists about the state of Trump’s mental health, since I considered that to be the most important thing when it came to understanding him. It was Trump’s Rosetta stone.

    I wasn’t shy about making the same case publicly. During a on C-SPAN’s , for example, I responded to a

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