'Very Troubled And Very Desperate': Trump Biographer Spots 1 Key Change

Donald Trump biographer Tim O’Brien said questions of age and mental acuity may be getting to the former president now that he’s running against Vice President Kamala Harris instead of President Joe Biden.

“Biden had become so visibly diminished and the media was more ready to take Biden to task on it on a regular basis,” O’Brien told The Guardian. “That allowed Trump to skate by.”

But with “a different, younger, more acute and vibrant political opponent,” he said, Trump “now often looks ridiculous or unhinged, unfocused or very, very old.”

Trump has made headlines throughout the campaign for his meandering digressions, bizarre rants about sharks and electric boats, and lengthy word-salad non-answers to questions about policy.

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For example, Trump last week when asked about making child care more affordable launched