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  • Not to defend him, or excuse him when he does the inexcusable, but Trump isn't the master of his faculties (and hasn't been for a long time). You can see it in how he frequently isn't able to engage with things, in this case evidently not understanding the question. He's very close to the end of his tether and apparently recently had his first semi-public breakdown in an interview that was not broadcast. He's not well, and I imagine he hasn't been since before his election campaign, although the level of stress he was under was obviously less then. His constant contradictions and U-turns are key symptoms, too. Obviously, you shouldn't diagnose people at a distance, but the symptoms are really quite striking.

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