Trump Gets There, The Young Don’t Like Her
Saturday, August 6, 2016
Vol. 5, No. 219
Now He’s There: Donald Trump finally endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan for re-election after earlier saying he was “not there yet.” It may be an attempt to pull together the Republican Party that’s fractured and crumbling under the Trump candidacy.
Giving Ryan faint praise, Trump said, “He’s a good man. We may disagree on a couple of things, but mostly we agree.”
Trump also endorsed Senators John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, both of whom he has trashed in speeches.
But after a no good, very bad week in which he insulted the parents of a dead soldier and ordered a crying baby out of a rally, Trump looks a man more in need of diagnosis than campaign contributions. David Brooks writes in the NY Times, “He cannot be contained because he is psychologically off the chain. With each passing week he displays the classic symptoms of medium-grade mania in more disturbing forms: inflated self-esteem, sleeplessness, impulsivity, aggression and a compulsion to offer advice on subjects he knows nothing about.”
Yesterday though, Trump was psychoanalyzing Hillary Clinton, calling her, “really pretty close to unhinged.”
The Numbers: A new survey of Americans 18-30 found that 43 percent believe Hillary Clinton intentionally broke the law using private email on a personal server while she was secretary of state. Young whites are more likely to say she broke the law.
Clinton is fighting back on the credibility front, yesterday blaming the Republicans. At a joint meeting of the professional associations for black and Hispanic journalists, Clinton said she always got high ratings as a senator and secretary of state. “Just maybe, when I’m actually running for a job, there is a real benefit to those on the other side with trying to stir up as much trouble as possible.”
The Games: The Rio de Janeiro Olympics opened yesterday with a grand Brazilian show and a parade of athletes from around the world taking pictures of themselves as they entered the stadium for the torch lighting.
Missing were more than 100 Russian athletes barred from the Olympics for doping. The Russian team has been reduced to 271 athletes, a loss of more than 25 percent. As of yesterday, seven swimmers, cyclists and a wrestler still had a chance of getting in because they had served their punishment.
Police Beat: Three Chicago police officers have been stripped of their powers after the fatal shooting of a teenager trying to get away from the cops in a Jaguar. Nine dash cam and body cam videos show officers shooting at the speeding car, a violation of Chicago PD rules of deadly force. They even fired in the direction of other officers, leading them to believe the shots were coming from the speeding car. They were not. Eighteen-year-old Paul O’Neal died as he lay handcuffed on the ground.
The Obit Page: Chris Costner Sizemore, the woman whose life with multiple personality disorder inspired the book and the movie titled “The Three Faces of Eve,” has died at age 89. The three personalities bumping elbows in her brain were named Eve White, Eve Black and Jane. Ultimately doctors identified more than 20 personalities.
Multiple personality disorder is a dissociative disorder triggered by childhood trauma. Sizemore had several, including seeing a man sawn in half at a lumber mill.
She struggled with the disorder until she was nearly 50, when she finally became herself. “You don’t know how wonderful it is to go to bed at night and know that it will be you that wakes up the next day,” she told The New York Post in 1975.
Machine Politician: Former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens is running as a Republican for governor of Missouri, promising to “set his sights on politics as usual.” One of his television ads features Greitens firing a Gatling mini-gun. As spent shells spill from the ejector, the ad promises Greitens will both protect life and the Second Amendment. And you know, that’s what Missouri needs; a governor who can fill a forest with lead.
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