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 Scott Olson/Getty ImagesAn increasingly incoherent and profane former president Donald Trump, 78, is rambling at his rallies at previously unheard-of lengths and showing signs of confusion that could indicate mental decline, according to a New York Times analysis.
An average rally speech by the elderly Republican nominee for president—who has promised to release his medical records and cognitive tests and then refused to do so—lasts 82 minutes this election cycle, nearly double the 45 minutes he averaged in 2016, a computer analysis by the newspaper found.
In addition to Trump's well documented rambling, repetitive and winding addresses—punctuated with strange asides about things like his "beautiful" body—among the potential signs of cognitive change are that he curses 69 percent more in speeches than he did in 2016. That could be a sign of disinhibition, a kind of impulsivity that is sometimes attributed to mental decline in old age, the Times said.
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 Reuters/Carlos BarriaDonald Trump kicked off his second rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, by thanking the U.S. Secret Service members who "threw their bodies on top of mine" and saved his life during a July assassination attempt.
"Without even a thought for their own lives," he added. "They were on top of me so fast, and there was not even a moment of doubt in their minds."
Trump's rally marked his first return to the city since 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight shots at him while he was speaking on stage— wounding his ear, and killing off-duty firefighter Corey Comperatore.
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 Brendan McDermid/ReutersAs former President Donald Trump is set to return on Saturday to the site of his near-miss assassination attempt three months ago in Pennsylvania, he faces swirling threats against his life from Iran.
Trump will hold a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as he and Democratic opponent Kamala Harris campaign feverishly to win the crucial battleground state, which is nearly a deadlock in recent polls.
Trump told NewsNation that he felt it was necessary to return to the place where 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired several rounds at the GOP nominee, with one striking his ear, before the would-be assassin was shot dead.
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