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Donald Trump's mental health is deteriorating and the American press is unable to properly cover it, according to the former president's psychologist niece.

Trained psychologist Mary Trump said on Sunday that her uncle's recent rambling, stream-of-consciousness answers to policy questions are worth coverage, but the media isn't doing its job. Mary Trump previously argued that her uncle's obsession with crowd sizes ties into his desire to be complimented 24/7, which stems from unfortunate circumstances during his early childhood.

Over the weekend, Mary Trump noted a recent answer that Trump had to a question about the cost of childcare.

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"Well, I would do that, and we're sitting down, I was somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It's a very important issue, but I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about that because look, childcare is childcare," Trump said in part.

The member of the Trump family replied, saying, "I defy anybody who was actually trying to follow the thread of that gibberish to tell me what it means. Nobody can. The only phrase that has any logical consistency, 'childcare is childcare,' also happens to be the only thing Donald said that’s true—childcare is, after all, childcare. The rest of it is just disjointed riffing coupled with his greatest hits and catch phrases."

The corporate media, Mary Trump added, "have decided that it is no longer the job of its journalists and pundits to report and analyze information; rather they believe they must translate Donald’s nonsensical ramblings into a version of the English language we can all understand."

"That’s a huge problem because, on the one hand, they’re not really translating his words—they’re imbuing them with a meaning that is not there; on the other hand, they’re doing this without telling us they’re doing it," she then added.

The psychologist went on to say that it's "deeply disturbing that somebody as unhinged and incoherent as Donald is allowed to run for the presidency in the first place (and that leaves aside all of the other disqualifying things about him), but the disturbance is compounded when you consider that corporate media can’t seem to muster any urgency in the face of Donald’s increasingly bizarre behavior."

"On any given day, he is demonstrably untethered from reality—and it often seems that the reason the warning lights aren’t constantly flashing red is because nobody covering him expects otherwise," she added. "Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Biden’s age rendered him mentally unfit, wouldn’t look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald is dementing."

Mary Trump added that her uncle "is a frightened, desperate man knowing, as he does, that his continued freedom might well depend on his ability to get back into the White House so he can make the still-pending federal cases against him disappear."

"His increasingly fantastical pronouncements and worsening psychiatric disorders strike me as being newsworthy," she said.

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A major figure in the GOP just sent a "massive signal" to undecided voters that Vice President Kamala Harris is their choice, a former Barack Obama aide said on Saturday.

Democratic political commentator Van Jones, a frequent guest on CNN, appeared on the network over the weekend to discuss the state of the presidential race and the upcoming debate during which Harris is set to face off against Donald Trump. Jones appeared alongside GOP operative Scott Jennings.

Both political strategists were asked about the recent endorsement of Harris by former Vice President Dick Cheney, who stated that Trump has shown he's not trustworthy in a position of power. The host noted that Harris said Cheney's comments were "courageous."

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Jennings, who worked for George W. Bush and said he "reveres" Cheney, said most Republicans would disagree with the conclusion Cheney reached.

Jones, on the other hand, said this specific endorsement could actually reach crucial undecided voters.

"I see it very differently. If you are an undecided voter and you're trying to figure out what to do, this is a pretty massive signal," Jones said. "If Kamala Harris does stuff that you don't like, maybe her tax policy is too aggressive, you can vote her out in four years and fix it."

He then added, "If you put somebody in office who does not respect the rule of law, the Constitution, somebody who led an insurrection, somebody you may not be able to vote out in four years, you can't fix that really easily."

Jones further stated, "But if you're in the middle trying to figure out who is going to have the most survivable set of errors... even Dick Cheney says that Kamala is a safer bet for America."

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Donald Trump on Saturday promised that, if he were to win the 2024 presidential election, he would come down hard on anyone who engaged in election interference.

Trump, who himself has been criminally charged with election subversion in D.C. and in Georgia, took to his own social media network, Truth Social, to condemn the practice as it pertains to Democrats.

In a post labeled as a "CEASE & DESIST," Trump claimed that he, "together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars," is "watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely."

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Trump went on to say that he knows "better than most" about election interference crimes.

"I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election. It was a Disgrace to our Nation! Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again," the ex-president added. "We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T!"

Trump continued:

"Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country."

Donald Trump's own presidential campaign has failed to substantiate the former president's Saturday rally claim about children and schools, according to CNN, which deemed the statement a "lie."

Trump recently spoke at a Moms for Liberty event where the former president made an eye-popping claim about transgender kids.

"The transgender thing is incredible... your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child," Trump said last week.

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This led political fact-checker PolitiFact to issue a "pants-on-fire" rating for the claim, saying, "If a surgical procedure at school sounds far-fetched, that’s because it is. Schools generally do not provide students with medical care without parental consent, let alone offer surgery. Parents, guardians and doctors, not schools, are the decision makers for health decisions involving minors."

Trump repeated a version of this same claim at a rally on Saturday. At a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, which was filled with verbal slip-ups on which critics quickly pounced, the former president said, "Can you imagine you're a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school. And your son comes back with a brutal operation. Can you even imagine this?"

This led to extreme pushback on social media, including by a CNN fact checker.

Daniel Dale, CNN senior reporter on the fact-check beat, said, "Trump’s own campaign could not find a single example of this 'school secretly sends child for gender-affirming surgery without parental consent' thing having ever happened anywhere in the U.S."

Dale then added, "Experts say it has not and could not. It’s a lie."

Dale also linked to a CNN fact check article from the last time Trump made the claim.

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Former Rep. Liz Cheney revealed Friday that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has secured the vote of powerful Republican who once held significant power in the White House.

The Republican also happens to be Cheney's dad.

“Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris," the former Wyoming representative said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.

Replied the moderator, "Wow."

According to USA Today reporter John C. Moritz, there were "Big cheers from the decidedly left-leaning audience."

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Dick Cheney was the all-powerful vice president behind former President George W. Bush, and like his daughter Liz, a conservative unafraid to speak out against Trump.

Liz Cheney endorsed Harris officially on Wednesday, arguing Trump represented a danger to American Democracy.

"As a conservative and someone who believes and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses," she said. "Not only am I not voting for Donald Trump but I will be voting for Kamala Harris."

Dick Cheney criticized Trump while campaigning for his daughter in her unsuccessful 2022 reelection campaign.

“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He is a coward. A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it. He knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know.”

Vice President Kamala Harris should remind debate watchers of Donald Trump's greatest failure as president – and one of the major reasons he was not re-elected for a second term.

Democrats have effectively adopted vice presidential candidate Tim Walz's framing around Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance as "weird," and Bloomberg columnist Nia-Malika Henderson urged Harris to use her running mate's summation of the former president's response to the Covid pandemic that killed more than 400,000 Americans on his watch.

“He froze in the face of Covid, and our neighbors died because of it,” Walz said last month during a campaign appearance in Michigan, "and by doing nothing about Covid, he drove this economy into the ground.”

Reminding voters of that historic failure comes with risks, Henderson concedes, because many Americans prefer not to dwell on bad memories associated with the pandemic, and many still accuse Democrats of overreacting with safety measures in those early days.

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"But 'getting over' Covid won’t be easy, given that it remains one of the top 10 leading causes of death, according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," Henderson wrote. "Trump’s approach to the pandemic doesn’t bode well for what he would do in a second term. While he pushed for a Covid vaccine as part of Operation Warp Speed, he sowed confusion about the vaccine’s effectiveness, spread conspiracy theories and consistently downplayed the seriousness of the virus."

Trump's misinformation proved especially deadly for his own supporters, with research showing pro-Trump counties had much higher death rates than those that backed president Joe Biden in 2020, and the nation never fully recovered from his early mishandling of the pandemic.

"He called it a hoax," Henderson wrote. "He said it would disappear. He said fewer tests would mean fewer cases. He called Dr. Anthony Fauci an idiot and praised quacks who were pushing unproven treatments for Covid. He dithered and delayed and people died as a result. Rather than having a national strategy, Trump deemed the federal government a mere 'backup' option for the states as they scrambled for ventilators, personal protective equipment and a system for testing and contact-tracing."

The former president claims credit for rescuing the economy and tens of millions of jobs, but Henderson said Harris must correct the record and remind voters that the pandemic was still raging the last time they voted for president in 2020 – when Trump was still in the White House.

"In her 2020 debate against Vice President Mike Pence, Harris’ first question was about Covid," Henderson wrote. "She said that Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic was the 'greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country.' With thousands dying daily and Trump recommending bleach and ultraviolet light as a cure, the 2020 presidential election was a referendum on Covid and Trump’s competence."

"He treated the pandemic like it was a branding challenge, not a medical and economic catastrophe," Henderson added. "Democrats must remind voters of this, raising the specter of Trump at the helm again, spinning lies and doing nothing as another disaster unfolds."