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FOR THE RECORD

Posted 3/25/19

President Trump must have felt as if the walls were literally closing in last week as a blizzard of tweets raised new questions about his sense of decency and his mental health.

It began with a Twitter barrage over the weekend of March 16-17 in which he lashed out repeatedly at the late Sen. John McCain on several fronts, from his role in giving the FBI a dossier compiled by a former British spy concerning the then-President-elect’s connections to Russia that included some unflattering anecdotes about Mr. Trump’s behavior in a hotel in that country. He also assailed Mr. McCain as having been “last in his class” while at the Naval Academy.

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