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Amid speculation of President Donald Trump’s mental decline, several Democratic U.S. House representatives recently voiced their opinions on the matter. Their responses were video recorded by Pablo Manríquez, editor of Migrant Insider.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said, “The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal. For our global partners, what they also see is the result of not just one man but the entire government apparatus and a party that is willing to watch someone decompensate in front of the world and do nothing about it.”
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said, “I honestly don’t think he was equipped to be sworn into office in the first place… This is literally based upon what some actual doctors were telling me were signs, and so we have tried to investigate this.”
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Rep. Della Ramirez (D-IL) said, “We have a physically unstable, mentally ill man running the White House. You’re starting to see the consequences of it. The American people are hurting. Everything is more expensive. People are dying in the streets. He is becoming richer, and he doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. He should resign.”
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) said, ” It’s very significant. Sadly, cognitive decline doesn’t get better. It’s only going to get worse in the weeks to come.”
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