Left-wing podcaster airs shocking claim about Trump's health while arguing he's 'ducking' Kamala debates

A left-wing podcaster made an astonishing assertion astir erstwhile President Donald Trump's intelligence wellness portion arguing that helium is 'ducking' Vice President Kamala Harris successful debates.

Kara Swisher, a podcaster for New York Magazine, declared connected Saturday that Trump's 'cognitive challenges are clear' aft different panelist connected CNN's The Chris Wallace Show defended the erstwhile president's determination not to person different statement with the vice president.

She claimed that Trump, 78, is 'ducking' different statement with Harris, 59, successful an effort to debar a absorption akin to the 1 President Joe Biden received aft his abysmal show successful a statement with Trump earlier helium dropped retired of the race.

That statement show fueled concerns astir Biden's property and stamina, and connected Saturday, Swisher suggested Trump wants to debar immoderate akin concerns.

'This past week, there's been respective appearances wherever his cognitive challenges are wide and truthful erstwhile he's pushed successful immoderate mode oregon erstwhile that statement happened with Kamala Harris, helium has issues,' she claimed. 'We talked astir it with Biden.

'It's truthful wide from truthful galore of his speeches this week that helium loses words, helium mixes up people. He doesn't privation that opposition due to the fact that she doesn't bash that,' Swisher continued.

'So he's not going to look adjacent her.'

Swisher's assertion came successful effect to Wallace asking his sheet wherefore they deliberation the erstwhile president is 'ducking' different statement with Harris arsenic good arsenic a 60 Minutes interrogation helium would person done alone.

'The information is statesmanlike candidates spell connected networks and bash debates,' Wallace said. 'Why is Trump ducking a statement and a 60 Minutes [interview] erstwhile he's going to person an interrogation by himself?'

Manhattan Institute President Reihan Salam past offered his ain perspective, arguing it is the circumstantial venues and outlets Trump is taking contented with.

'Respectfully, if you deliberation astir 60 Minutes' way grounds of covering Donald Trump, I deliberation helium has crushed to judge that [it] is not needfully going to beryllium a venue that volition beryllium wholly just and reasonable, conscionable arsenic Harris has objections to appearing connected Fox,' Salam said. 

Trump, himself, has antecedently claimed that Harris lone wants a 2nd debate due to the fact that she fears she is successful a losing position.

'I bushed Biden, I past bushed her, and I'm not looking to bash it again, excessively acold down the line,' helium wrote connected his Truth Social web this week.

'Votes are already formed - And I'm starring BIG successful the polls.

'I'll MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, she's incapable of it,' helium argued.

But the erstwhile president has made headlines successful caller weeks for immoderate of his much outrageous comments, including his assertion astatine the statement that Haitian migrants are eating pets successful Ohio. 

His show astatine that statement near intelligence wellness experts 'very worried' astir his cognitive abilities, they told DailyMail.com.

'If a diligent presented to maine with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive code that Trump present regularly demonstrates, I would astir surely notation them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric valuation to rule retired a cognitive illness,' said Richard A Friedman, of Weill Cornell Medical College.

He wrote successful the Atlantic that adjacent though Harris 'certainly exhibited immoderate rigidity and repetition, her speech remained wrong the mean realm for politicians, who person a estimation for harping connected their favourite talking points. 

'By contrast, Donald Trump's expressions of those tendencies were alarming.

'He displayed immoderate striking, if familiar, patterns that are commonly seen among radical successful cognitive decline.'

Friedman noted helium watched the statement successful Philadelphia with an oculus to the candidates' 'vocabulary, verbal and logical coherence, and quality to accommodate to caller topics'.

'Much of the time, pursuing Trump's bid of thought was difficult, if not impossible,' helium wrote. 'Evading the question is an age-old debate-winning tactic. But Trump's effect seems to spell beyond evasion.

'It is some tangential, successful that it is wholly irrelevant to the question, and circumstantial, successful that it is rambling and ne'er gets to a point.'

He besides said Trump failed to support himself.

'When Harris raised his infamous 'very good radical connected some sides' remark regarding the 2017 white-supremacist march successful Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump could person pointed retired that adjacent astatine the time, helium had specified, 'I'm not talking astir the neo-Nazis and the achromatic nationalists—because they should beryllium condemned totally'.

'But helium did not,' Friedman wrote.

Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, a erstwhile White House physician, insisted past twelvemonth that the erstwhile president remains 'incredibly sharp'. 

'He's got a amended representation than I have, than you have. We each cognize this,' helium told Fox News's Sean Hannity.

But Friedman said the cognitive tests Trump claims to person passed are lone designed to observe pronounced cognitive dysfunction.

'As such, they are rather casual to pass,' helium wrote. 'They inquire elemental questions specified arsenic "What is the date?" and situation participants to spell satellite backwards oregon constitute immoderate implicit sentence.'

'Only cautious aesculapian introspection tin found whether idiosyncratic so has a diagnosable unwellness — simply observing Trump, oregon anyone else, from afar is not enough,' the doc said.

For those who bash person specified diseases oregon conditions, respective treatments and services beryllium to assistance them and their loved ones header with their decline.

'But that does not mean immoderate of them would beryllium qualified to service arsenic commandant successful chief.'