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Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.
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![See, e.g., Tr. 82:1-4 (Aug. 17) ("Honestly, my heart kind of dropped a little bit. I was really just in -initially I was just kind of shocked that it was even posted and then I was just kind of in disbelief that my name was attached to something like that."); id. at 83:3-11 ("it was honestly kind of embarrassing," "humiliating," "sad,' "life was cruel" and Spears "felt a little helpless"); id. at 88:11-14 (being called names and heckled made Spears feel "really just hurt" and it was "not a good feeling to have"); id., 87:20-24 (Spears was "heckled" and told that he was "killer" and a "murderer" who "should be in jail"); id. at 89:16-19 (at the second game after the Article was published, Spears encountered "the same thing [he] experienced the first game," which was "a lot of heckling; people saying the same mean things to you; derogatory remarks"); id. at 89:21 (he felt "the same way" at the second game as he did the first game, "[it sucked" and was 'not feeling"); id. 90:16-23 ("fraternity dudes" recognized him and were "screaming at [him] that [he was] a killer in public on The Strip"); id. at 91:15-16 (at the third game after the Article was published, "people [were] just heckling, saying mean remarks"); id. at 93:15-21 (Spears testifying that "after everything that happened[, he] was just really unfocused and... was struggling a little bit in school which is normally unusual for [him] and [he] ended up dropping out of [one] class" after a "tough" semester); id. at 100:8-10 (Spears felt like there was a "spotlight on [him] and it wasn't a good one at the time" and that "it never goes away").
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