Hi everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York inspired in large part by our

conversation with my friend and colleague Rachel

Madel about how we cover this moment this now convicted ex president current

president this extraordinary moment we have a story for you.

Starts like this. Shot and Chaser.

The time when the ex president now convicted felons

rantings and ravings about things like sharks and electric boats and whether he go with

electrocution or getting eaten by the shark have everybody regardless of political

persuasion talking about regardless of political persuasion,

talking about his state of mind.

At that moment, a merchant of right-wing talking points

and sometimes even disinformation

is going into overdrive with calculated and

relentless regional attacks on President Joe Biden.

Statements by Donald Trump on the other hand so unhing. Fox News didn't carry them or broadcast them,

didn't go back and air them after the fact either. In the words of Stephen King,

that speech was, quote, like listening to your senile uncle at the dinner table after he has

that third drink. So that performance and others like it are reviving real questions

about Trump's stability, his mental acuity, questions Trump loves to talk about. He's in on this conversation and has been for years. Watch.

The next day they'll say he's crazy. The next day they'll say he's crazy the next day they'll say oh he's incompetent the next day they'll say this is one of the

dumbest human beings ever and that wasn't working but I didn't like that one as much I mean that was bad

so I asked Doc Ronnie I said what do you think about a cognitive test Ronnie? Then he said sir there is a test it's called the

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