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MSNBC’s Deadline: White House is known for being a hub for those willing to do or say anything to slime President Trump. On Monday’s edition of the show, they proved that to be true yet again when they dedicated the first segment to the suggestion that the President’s weekend tweetstorm was somehow an outward symptom of some sort of “crisis level” “psychological duress” brought on from a mental “spasm” due to fear.
Neither fill-in host John Heilemann nor any of the MSNBC analysts on the panel were licensed psychologists but that didn’t keep them from making their armchair diagnoses.
When first addressing former Republican campaign advisor Mike Murphy, Heilemann wondered: “I want to think first about just the totality of it and no one understands the process of mental breakdown better than Mike Murphy. So Mike, when you're looking at what you saw coming out the president’s fingertips over this weekend, what did you think?”
Despite admitting he was “not a clinical expert”, Murphy claimed his thought over the weekend was “crazy times demand a crazy president.” He then surmised that “if you were to go back in time and on one day switch to this kind of presidential behavior in normal history, people would instantly thing he lost his grip.”
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