THREAD: “This is a five-alarm fire…The most important issue of our time,” said Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State. A breakdown of Trump loyalists’ growing success in taking control over voting in swing states:
Arizona. Republican legislators have passed a law taking away authority over election lawsuits from the secretary of state, who’s now a Democrat, and giving it to the attorney general, a Republican. And debating another bill that would allow them to revoke election certification.
Georgia. Brad Raffensperger, helped stop Trump’s attempts to reverse the result. State legislators have since weakened his powers, and a Trump-backed candidate is running to replace Him. And passed a law that gives a commission they control the power to remove election officials.
Michigan. Kristina Karamo, a Trump-endorsed candidate who has repeated the Big Lie is running for secretary of state. (Republican candidates are running on similar messages in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.)
Pennsylvania. Republicans are trying to amend the state’s Constitution to make the secretary of state an elected position. One of the states where Trump allies — like Stephen Lindemuth, who attended the Jan. 6 rally—have won local races to oversee elections.
Wisconsin. Senator Ron Johnson is urging the Republican-controlled Legislature to take full control of federal elections. Doing so could remove the governor, currently a Democrat, from the process, and weaken the bipartisan state elections commission.
1/4 Drs. Gartner and Segal talk to Dr. Eric Jackson, Director of the Stuttering and Variability Lab at NYU who argues that a lot of what looked like cognitive decline was actually stuttering: a message America needs to hear.
Watch here youtube.com/live/xrgwUDUfb…
2/4 Dr. Jackson analyzes Biden's debate gaffes: "I think that he stutters, and I think stuttering is playing a bigger role in his verbal stumbles than most people think. I don't see evidence of cognitive decline."
3/4 Biden has bounced back with spirited rallies and a solid NATO press conference but the press is in wolf-pack mode, hyper-focused on Biden's gaffes while ignoring the malignant narcissism that will leads to Trump's "Project 2025" America
How shame formed Trump's narcissism:
Psychologists John Gartner and Harry Segal talk to Dr. John Skrovan, as they address Trump's malignant narcissism, his inability to process shame, and how that shapes his rapid cognitive decline. youtube.com/live/VaCq9WrmO…
Welcome to another addition of Shrinking Trump, where we meet each week to present the mounting evidence of Trump’s mental decline and early onset dementia. “Our goal is really to educate the public, to help them to think clinically in a more sophisticated way,” Dr. Segal said.
In this episode, our hosts will be sharing the latest audio and video examples of Trump’s disorientation, confusion, and some peculiar but very specific physical telltale signs of brain damage and deterioration.
1/9 Top Psychologists John Gartner and Harry Segal are joined by Dr. John Talmadge, one of the first to have written about Trump's dementia, as they address Trump's fixation on vengeance and peel back the layers of his rapid cognitive decline. youtube.com/live/uvjZF65qG…
3/ Welcome to another addition of Shrinking Trump, where we meet each week to present the mounting evidence of Trump’s mental decline and early onset dementia. This week was particularly telling for Trump, as he attempts to deal with the reality of his conviction on 34 felony counts.
1/ Special Edition: Conviction Day
Shrinking Trump had an “emergency session” anticipating our patient might go into crisis after his conviction. Our analysis of his likely response from a psychological perspective. youtube.com/live/e1D7HvPOP…
3/ While it has felt like there was no line he could't cross, Trump’s conviction has moved the polls. Across polls, 2-8% have said a conviction would decide their vote. More recently, 45% of independents, and 10% of Republicans think he should drop out.
1/ 15 Join Dr. John Gartner and Harry Segal for their top-ranked podcast “Shrinking Trump,” as they review Trump’s disturbed behaviors of the week and report how on how the media covered them.
Psycho-biographer Dr. Justin Frank explains the origins of Trump’s psychopathology. youtube.com/live/13VqOrpxk…
3/ John and Harry kick off the show with another great segment of “This week in Trump,” where they share video of Trump’s most bizarre statements and behaviors from the week to highlight the mounting evidence of his cognitive decline.
1/17 This week:
Dementia specialists Drs. Mitchell and Emily Clionsky assess patient Trump.
We demand a retraction from WaPo for writing Biden “routinely” evidences “word salad.”
Jennifer Rubin asks Shrinking Trump hosts to advise Biden on the debates. youtube.com/live/dyBJGWOej…
3/ Dementia experts Drs. Mitchell and Emily Clionsky, assess the case of patient Trump, and find marked deterioration in his speech and “executive functioning.” press.jhu.edu/books/title/12…