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HAS TRUMP LOST HIS MIND?

Exclusive: Joseph Farah declares, 'I'm seriously worried about his mental health'

I’m not anti-Donald Trump. I never have been. I think he has had, in many ways, a positive impact on the 2016 presidential race – raising important issues and forcing the media to deal with them.

When he is the Republican presidential nominee, I will in all likelihood vote for him.

But I have to ask the question: Has Trump lost his mind?

How else can one account for his willingness to accept at face value a National Enquirer “exposé” suggesting Ted Cruz’s father associated with Lee Harvey Oswald just before the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 on the basis of a photograph that resembled Rafael Cruz?

Worse yet, it was Trump who brought up this issue in a Fox News interview when the question asked was unrelated to the topic – which no one in the news media took seriously, and I mean NO ONE.

It is moments like this that leaves me wondering if he is playing with a full deck or whether he is hopelessly unhinged and out of touch with reality.

If Donald Trump is elected president, will his daily briefings include summaries of reports in the National Enquirer. The Star, the Globe and the News of the World?

Will he use his executive power to launch commissions to determine if Elvis is actually alive and well and working as an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas?

I’m seriously worried about his mental health.

Maybe you ask: “If all that’s true, Farah, why would you vote for him?”

The answer is simple: The alternative is President Hillary Clinton – and I know who she is and what she is. She’s the most dangerous woman in the world since Tonya Rodham Bobbitt. (For you youngsters, look it up.)

I could be charitable and suggest Trump knows no other way to fight than to throw everything including the kitchen sink at his opponent. I think that’s true, but it’s still not right. It’s not an excuse I’m comfortable with.

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On the other hand, I can comfort myself with this: America survived eight years of Barack Obama – barely, I believe. But that doesn’t help me cope with playing so fast and loose with the facts.

America is in need of political redemption after Obama. It’s hard to see how we can achieve that with Hillary in the White House.

The alternative is Trump.

I’m not sure he will be everything we need to turn the country around, but he’s a far better bet than a person who is certain to drag the country further into ruin, no?

But Trump needs to start acting presidential. I don’t mean a phony like Obama. I don’t mean reading words off a teleprompter. I mean thoughtful, not screaming epithets or sounding like he really does get his news from the National Enquirer.

This is scaring me. And I want to like Trump. I am really hopeful about an alternative to Hillary.

Is there someone close to Trump who can pull him aside and speak frankly about this propensity to say anything and everything that’s on his mind, no matter whether it bears any semblance to truth and accuracy?

It’s time.

I had to laugh when Trump was asked by an interviewer about whether he would consider naming Ted Cruz to the U.S. Supreme Court and Trump’s response was, “I’m not sure about his temperament.”

I agree. Temperament is an important thing to consider when it comes to judicial nominees.

But it’s also something to consider about presidential candidates.

As for me, right now, I’m much more certain Ted Cruz has the temperament to be a Supreme Court justice than I am that Donald Trump has the right temperament to have his finger on the nuclear trigger.

But I have an open mind. Just show me.

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