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Jeffrey Epstein dead

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MrsVanCleef · 10/08/2019 14:21

Al the scandals buried. DAMN!!

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nolongersurprised · 12/08/2019 11:45

What you say about trumps mental deterioration is interesting and I know there is a lot of speculation on this subject!

If you’ve seen people with dementia before there’s telltale signs with the balance and the gait. Next time there are clips of him having to walk, pivot and stop, watch him. He walks with a wide based gait, sort of circumducts a leg to pivot and his balance is dodgy. He has diminished arm swing. When he is doing a rally and standing against the lectern he often grips onto the hand holds, or pushes hard against it with his stomach to help maintain his balance.

A while ago there was this whole thing about how Trump was “scared of stairs” with a montage of clips with people helping him, including Theresa May. It looked neurological and pathological. When I first noticed the gait and did a Twitter search there’s a guy called Tom Joseph who posts all the clips of him walking, twitching etc. Certainly there’s confirmation bias there but there’s something not right. And - he’s pretty old and his dad died of dementia, didn’t he?

nolongersurprised · 12/08/2019 11:49

Tom Joseph(@TomJChicago)

FermatsTheorem · 12/08/2019 11:51

Nolongersurprised that sounds about right. I remember on one of the (early-ish) rolling Trump threads on here someone linked to work by a linguistics expert on the way you could compare Trump's TV interviews from 20 years ago with those now and see a marked deterioration in the richness of vocabulary and complexity of grammar (interviews rather than speeches as the latter tend to be written by someone else).

Whosorrynow · 12/08/2019 11:51

@nolonger
That's very interesting thank you for explaining 😊
I will look up Tom Joseph's work on the subject
How long before it's an open secret that he's got dementia?😳

nolongersurprised · 12/08/2019 12:04

George Conwall’s timeline on Twitter is telling, IMO. He started tweeting quite formally with polite dissent but more recently has openly stated that the president is “nuts”. Obviously through Kellyanne he knows what’s going on. There was this today:

twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1160720589553905664

Pragmatically no one close to Trump seems to about Trumps slurred, disordered nonsensical speech so I think the GOP will keep up the pretence until he starts to fall.

Haggisfish · 12/08/2019 12:08

It’s so utterly shit the way these things are ‘managed out’ by people with money.

Haggisfish · 12/08/2019 12:10

God that video of trump and Epstein essentially having a stall of women dancing for them and laughing about it. Boak.

Whosorrynow · 12/08/2019 12:16

I think Trump is just a useful idiot to them
Surely many of those around him now despise him and are happy to see him publicly humiliated as he rots in front of us all

nolongersurprised · 12/08/2019 12:38

mobile.twitter.com/tomjchicago/status/1062307000485339136

This is not normal gait, watch at 28 minutes.

Roussette · 12/08/2019 12:43

I agree. Trump is just a fool the GOP can manipulate. They will keep him there as long as they can.

Thank you nolongersurprised for the heads up on TomJChicago.

Here's a thread reader on the Trump dementia
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1157708488115728384.html

GrassAndDaisies · 12/08/2019 12:44

I'm surprised this thread hasn't been deleted. It, along with others, has disappeared off the MN search engine.

OytheBumbler · 12/08/2019 13:49

I don't think mn Search is working properly yet which I why it's not appearing. I had to scroll down chat to find it.

GrassAndDaisies · 12/08/2019 13:58

It was working this morning and on subsequent days I've used it Oy

GrassAndDaisies · 12/08/2019 14:08

Checked MN search and it's now picking up 'Epstein'.

youarenotkiddingme · 12/08/2019 14:47

That's interesting re the gait. He also cannot stand still.

What I found interesting though is how natural and relaxed he looked in the clip when talking compared to the dead behind the eyes monotoned version we see in press conferences and speeches etc.

I have heard someone before suggest he drinks too much. Having watched that I see why.

Roussette · 12/08/2019 14:50

He's teetotal. Always has been. His brother died of alcoholism and I actually do believe he doesn't drink.

youarenotkiddingme · 12/08/2019 14:53

Oh yes - sorry I should have said I thought he didn't drink and didn't think he'd be allowed to by his aides etc. Just I can see where the conversation/rumours started.

justasking111 · 12/08/2019 14:59

I had vestibular neuritis six weeks in bed a few years ago, cannot manage escalaters and some times I get dizzy walking in a straight line, hope no-one thinks I must have dementia.

Iggly · 12/08/2019 15:24

What I found interesting though is how natural and relaxed he looked in the clip when talking compared to the dead behind the eyes monotoned version we see in press conferences and speeches etc

That’s because he’s following a script and is concentrating quite a lot. I doubt he practices much in advance

Rainbunny · 12/08/2019 16:16

Well I do think Trump has definitely suffered mental deterioration another possible explanation is rather fascinating to read, basically there's a case to be made that Trump has very, very poor eyesight and that impacts his reading, his recognition skills and his fear of walking down stairs.

slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/what-if-donald-trump-is-just-blind.html

Parsley1234 · 12/08/2019 19:04

The whole situation with PA is dreadful - him cozying up to Epstein after he was released from prison his dreadful wife getting money off of Epstein to pay off her debts and now reintegration to Buck Palace.
What is it with the Royal Family and Jimmy Saville Peter Ball and now Epstein
Surely not even Fergie wd stope that low ! There are a lot of bodies buried somewhere.

longwayoff · 12/08/2019 19:33

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managedmis · 12/08/2019 20:29

It's just so sad that I'm not shocked at all reading any of this.

Whosorrynow · 12/08/2019 21:30

@nolongersurprised
Thanks for posting that link, I see what you mean, that right there sure is a confused old man walk!

Bornfreebutinbiscuits · 12/08/2019 21:39

Only on mn could thread Bout epstein turn into trumps gait 😂

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