Mental acuity

In response to a question from Kaitlan Collins (CNN) about pardoning Changpeng Zhao, co-founder of Binance and key backer of the current occupant’s family’s own crypto effort. Video here. My transcription:

“Which one, who is that? The recent one, yes, the, uh? I believe we’re talkin’ about the same per — because I do pardon a lot of people. I don't know, he was recommended by a lot of people, a lot of people say that — are you talking about the crypto person? A lot of people say that he wasn't guilty of anything. He served four months in jail, and they say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did — well, you don't know much about crypto. You know nothing about — you know nothin’ about nothin’. You’re fake news. But let me just tell you that he was somebody that, as I was told, I don't know him, I don't believe I've ever met him, but I've been told by, a lot of support, he had a lot of support, and they said that what he did is not even a crime. It wasn't a crime. But he was persecuted by the Biden administration, and so I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people.”

And there was a comment about Portland. Video here. My transcription:

“I mean I looked at, I looked the other night, Saturday night. Portland is like burning to the ground, and these people are saying it’s just friendly stuff. The whole place is burning to the ground. So we’ll, uh, take care of that one. That’s like an insurrection more than it is anything else. That, that’s crazy, Portland’s crazy. And then you listen to these radical left people talking about, uh, it’s really okay, you’re seeing things, you’re really seeing things.”

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[Transcribed last night. As I discovered this morning, Heather Cox Richardson has a nearly identical transcription of the first comment.]