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John Oliver has an idea for how to fix Donald Trump's broken brain
What happened
AlterNet reports that John Oliver’s “idea” was a joke: after Donald Trump made an unexplained guttural sound during a South Carolina rally, Oliver said Trump needed to be unplugged and plugged back in. The report offers no medical evidence about Trump’s cognition and does not establish what caused the sound.
Oliver then shifted to Republican candidates and appointees associated with Nazi imagery or rhetoric. AlterNet cites congressional candidate Peter Oberacker’s Veterans Day photo of his grandfather in a Wehrmacht uniform; a 2022 video in which Texas congressional candidate…
The skinny
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