Hi, I'm Margaret Hartman. I'm a senior editor at New York magazine site Intelligencer, and my

beat for the past few years has been Donald Trump being weird.

I've been writing a lot about strange rants that he keeps repeating at his rallies and

some of those include claiming that magnets don't work underwater.

Give me a glass of water. Let me drop it on the magnus.

That's the end of the magnus.

He did a bit of a pirate impression when he was trying to describe something Robert E.

Lee said, which the general did not actually say. And they were fighting, never fight uphill me boys,

but it was too late.

And most recently, he has been praising

the late great Hannibal Lecter.

And that's a rant that just makes no sense on any level no matter how you cut it.

So I decided to dig into that recently.

What Margaret found as she dug and what it tells us about where the former president convicted

felon Republican candidate is at these days coming up on today explained.

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