Hey, everyone. It's me, Sam Stein. I'm managing out of the book. I'm here with Lauren Egan,

and we're here to talk about her new newsletter about Democrats, Trump's Health, and why are they

not doing more with it? Lauren, thanks for joining. Appreciate it. Why are you smiling?

No reason. Okay, good. So tell us a bit about what the newsletter says. Are you smiling,

Lauren?

My newsletter is about, look, we have all seen the signs of Donald Trump growing older.

He turns 80 next month.

He has some weird bruising on his hands, which we've covered here at the bulwark.

And not only that, he has fallen asleep in the Oval, or appeared to fall asleep in the Oval, I should say. That was like an extended blink, I thought.

Yes, it's, you know, it's in the eye of the beholder, as they say.

There are a few other things.

He's been to the dentist three times so far this year.

He had an MRI last year, but didn't really tell us why.

He's not transparent about his health, which is obviously not exactly like a new thing

for presidents.

But after Biden, there's, you know, we have all these questions now.

And he is, he's old. But I was interested that Democrats

really weren't talking about this a bunch. You know, if the goal here is to make Trump look as

weak as possible going into midterms, trying to hit him for some of these things as, you know,

painting him to be kind of frail and decaying might be a route you might

take.

But they're not really doing that.

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