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Behind Trump’s Attacks on Biden’s Mental Fitness

Trump accuses Biden of cognitive impairment without medical proof, triggered by Trump’s experience with his father’s dementia.
Trump's fixation on mental fitness stems from watching his father's dementia worsen, leading to legal battles within the family over estate control.
Biden's doctors deemed a cognitive test unnecessary, despite right-wing media and Trump's scrutiny of his mental state.

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The Washington Post

Shadowing Trump’s attacks on mental fitness — his own father’s dementia

As Trump accuses Biden of being “cognitively impaired,” he avoids mention of his father’s Alzheimer’s disease — an experience that shaped Trump’s views of the condition.

1 month ago

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Raw Story

Trump was 'visibly upset at his father’s descent into dementia' in the '90s: Mary Trump

While Republicans have relentlessly hammered President Joe Biden for being too old, their own presumptive 78-year-old presidential nominee has a history of dementia in his family.Mary Trump, the niece of former President Donald Trump, tells the Washington Post that Trump grew "visibly upset at his father’s descent into dementia" in the 1990s when his father, Fred Trump, initially failed to recognize him at a family gathering.A former Trump Organ…

1 month ago·United States

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Portland Press Herald

Shadowing Trump’s attacks on mental fitness – his own father’s dementia

Donald Trump’s father’s condition also drove a wedge into his family, which fell into years of lawsuits that alleged in part that Donald Trump sought to take advantage of his father’s dementia to wrest control of the family estate.

1 month ago·Portland, United States

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Political Wire

Behind Trump’s Attacks on Biden’s Mental Fitness

Washington Post: "Trump’s long fixation on mental fitness followed years of watching his father’s worsening dementia — a formative period that some associates said has been a defining and little-mentioned factor in his life, and which left him with an abiding concern that he might someday inhe

1 month ago·New York, United States

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Alternet

How his father’s 'descent into dementia' fueled Trump’s obsession with mental fitness

2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and right-wing media outlets, including Fox News, have been obsessed with President Joe Biden's mental state — typically conflating his verbal gaffes (the result of a speech impediment he fought hard to overcome) with senility. But Democrats who have worked closely with Biden, including former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, have confirmed that the president is far from senile. Biden has a reputa…

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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