Jill Stein: Trump may have 'memory problem'
Source: Politico
Jill Stein: Trump may have 'memory problem'
The physician turned Green Party candidate sees signs of health, mental, cognitive issues in the man atop the GOP ticket.
By Glenn Thrush
09/19/16 05:01 AM EDT
Jill Stein is a Harvard-trained internist, a doctor who diagnosed thousands of patients for a quarter-century in Boston and Chicago before making the late-career switch to Green Party presidential candidate and could-be Hillary Clinton spoiler. ... So, as we settled in for our “Off Message” podcast interview last week in a drab hotel conference room in Baltimore (she had a rally there last Friday), I asked Stein -- as a clinician used to making snap assessment -- whether she agreed with that Donald Trump “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” as declared by his Bruce Vilanch-esque personal physician, Harold Bornstein.
“You know, I don't pretend to be able to do TV diagnosis, but I think the guy has a problem,” said the 66-year-old candidate, who is averaging somewhere between 2 and 5 percent in most national and state polls, enough (Clinton people say) to put a scare into the Democrat in too-close-to-call states. “The guy has a lot of problems -- physical, mental, emotional, cognitive,” Stein said of Trump. ... As proof of his (alleged) pathology, she pointed to his position-hopping on a range of issues, which she cast as erratic rather than calculating -- from his fuzzy Iraq positions over the years, to his brief “softening” on immigration last month, to his decision (on the day we spoke) to suddenly renounce birtherism after five years of banging a drumbeat of lies.
“It's hard to, you know, to think too hard about anything Donald Trump says because he will change his mind in the next hour, if not the next day, or whatever,” she added. “Today, suddenly, after five years, he became convinced that it's not an issue. Yesterday it was an issue. It will probably become an issue again for him. You know, the guy may have a memory problem. Who knows what it is? But he's incapable of having a consistent thought or policy.”
Stein also thinks he’s getting a free pass because he spent his career in private business, and wants Trump – along with everybody else – to release his tax returns. “At least with Clinton, you know, there was some degree of transparency,” she said. “But what's going on with Trump, you can't even get at and what he said was that even to clarify 15 out of these 500 deals, these are just like the most frightening mafiosos around the world. He's like -- he's a magnet for crime and extortion.”
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I hear that a lot of people are saying this. Smart people, the brightest people. Lots of them. A cognitive disorder, which, possibly, a growing number of people think Trump has, is disqualifying, don't you think? I myself have no way of knowing whether this is true or not, but it is on the internet. It's certainly worth looking into.
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One prominent expert said he is a textbook case. It does affect cognition, but whether he is malignant enough to qualify as a psychopath (newer term) I haven't read. The search terms are "cluster B" personality traits. And narcissism.
My half sister, who is a psychologist, says she and her colleagues at work have been watching the race in horrified fascination, but they are also clearly enjoying tagging all the obvious signs of his disorder. I once asked if they thought he would meet criteria for psychopathy, but she didn't answer. Doesn't mean he does, though.
The whole thing's a touchy subject and she's not all that forthcoming. She's very conservative, soaked in all the lies about Hillary long ago; but now that the race is tightening she's afraid she may be forced to vote for her against Trump to make sure he doesn't get in office. A choice between a lesser and great evil. Not happy, but imo she deserves it, not that I actually say that to her. 
for whom clinical personality disorders are extremely real. Political openmindedness isn't her strongest point, but voting for him is completely out of the question.
She mostly specializes in depression and anxiety, which she likes because she really can help. Some with personality disorders are deeply depressed because they keep getting fired and destroying relationships, but mostly she doesn't like dealing with them because their underlying disorders have apparently been effectively untreatable, sounds like mostly counseling family on understanding and dealing with their manipulations, setting boundaries, etc.
