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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe is beginning to slur his words again.
What is going on with him?
He is beginning to ad lib and insert side remarks and at the same time he is slurring words.
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He is beginning to slur his words again. (Original Post)
madaboutharry
Dec 2017
OP
Just a theory but I think his prefrontal cortex is starting to resemble moldy swiss cheese
Siwsan
Dec 2017
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)1. What a shitty speech he gave. OMG 😲
Siwsan
(26,268 posts)2. Just a theory but I think his prefrontal cortex is starting to resemble moldy swiss cheese
Definitely something misfiring in his cranium.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)3. Maybe stroke coming?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)5. Hopes are up
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)9. Your're not the only
person who has said that.
Found this article this could be it:
http://theconversation.com/a-mini-stroke-is-a-warning-a-stroke-may-follow-64486
snip of article:
People having a mini stroke can experience a variety of symptoms. The most important are weakness on one side affecting the face, arm or leg or all three or speech disturbance, which can be slurring or decreased speech fluency or comprehension. These are the typical symptoms, but sometimes people can experience visual loss, dizziness or vertigo.
jalan48
(13,870 posts)6. I think it's part of his exit strategy. He knows mental incapacity is a great defense.
nini
(16,672 posts)7. this wouldn't surprise me one bit
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OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)14. Yes, the case of Ernest Saunders crossed my mind......see here -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Saunders
Ernest Walter Saunders (born 21 October 1935) is a British former business manager, best known as one of the "Guinness Four", a group of businessmen who attempted fraudulently to manipulate the share price of the Guinness company. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, but released after 10 months as he was believed to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which is incurable. He subsequently made a full recovery.
SNIP
He had a career in management with Beecham, Great Universal Stores and Nestlé before becoming chief executive of Guinness plc (now a part of Diageo plc) in 1981, remaining in the position until 1986. He was renowned for his ruthless cost-cutting efficiency, earning from his employees the sobriquet 'Deadly Ernest'.
Under his charge, early in 1986, Guinness plc launched a friendly takeover bid for Edinburgh-based United Distillers plc, which was being stalked by a hostile bidder. This was effected by quietly boosting the Guinness share price. Subsequent to the bid, which resulted in success for Guinness, Saunders was charged (along with Jack Lyons, Anthony Parnes and Gerald Ronson) and convicted on 27 August 1990 of counts of conspiracy to contravene section 13(1)(a)(i) of the Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act 1958, false accounting and theft, in relation to dishonest conduct in a share support operation (see Guinness share-trading fraud). A series of appeals was finally dismissed in December 2002, although a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Saunders v. the United Kingdom declared that the defendants were denied a fair trial by being compelled to provide potentially self-incriminatory information to Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) inspectors which was then used as primary evidence against them. This breached their right to silence.
While there was no suggestion that Saunders himself sought to or actually did profit from these offences in an immediate or direct manner, the allegation was that they were committed to increase the likelihood of their company's takeover bid succeeding. His board of directors at Guinness plc was not informed of, and had not sanctioned, his arrangements, which included indemnities for unknowable amounts. He had passed $100 million to the American Ivan Boesky to invest shortly before Boesky's prosecution and imprisonment for insider trading, and following that investigation Saunders' plans were revealed to the DTI in Britain.[1]
A DTI report described him as a man who did "unjustifiable favours for friends and himself".[2]
Sentence and appeal[edit]
Saunders appealed against his prison sentence of five years and three expert witnesses appeared at the Appeal Court. A consultant neurologist acting for the Crown, Dr Perkins, insisted that Saunders was suffering from depression rather than Alzheimer's disease.[3] One of the other expert witnesses, another neurologist, used brain scans and other evidence to indicate that Saunders brain was abnormally small for a man of his age, an observation which he said was consistent with a brain disease diagnosis.[4]
On 16 May 1991, the sentence was reduced to two and a half years. Lord Justice Neill said that he was satisfied that Saunders was suffering from pre-senile dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease, which is incurable.[1] The decision was based on evidence from Dr Patrick Gallwey, a forensic pathologist, that Saunders was unable to recite three numbers backwards, was unable to use a door and his assertion that Gerald Ford rather than George Bush was the current President of the United States.[3][5]
Because of his apparent illness, Saunders was released from Ford Open Prison on 28 June 1991 having served only ten months of his sentence. (He would normally have been expected to have served 15 months of the 30-month sentence). After his release, he recovered from the symptoms which had led to the diagnosis.[2] Saunders himself claimed in 1994 that he was never diagnosed with Alzheimer's,[3] When asked by The Independent in 1996, Dr Gallwey commented: "In the early stages of Alzheimer's or pre-senile dementia, it can be very difficult to make a diagnosis, so we did not make one; we expressed worries about it."[5] It has been suggested he was in reality suffering from memory loss caused by stress.[6]
jalan48
(13,870 posts)15. Thanks. I hadn't heard about this.
JDC
(10,129 posts)8. Xanax
ksoze
(2,068 posts)11. His audience needs XANAX.
moriah
(8,311 posts)12. Truth, but if it's what will keep him from nuking NK because of insults...
... yes, the President needs some too.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)10. He's probably medicated to the max.
Nerves and lack of sleep.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)13. If he's ad-libbing, that means the drugs are wearing off.