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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio President Donald Trump returned to this longtime Democratic stronghold on Tuesday night, sounding almost unchanged from the candidate who campaigned here last year, as he confidently doubled down on promises he has yet to keep.

In a Covelli Centre filled with still-believing fans, Trump promised a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill, which so far is stalled in a long pipeline of legislation that must come before it. He vowed he was still going to build that wall, which currently has no source of funding. He said manufacturing jobs would come roaring back to Mahoning County, advising the Ohio crowd, Dont sell your house. Were going to get those values up. Ohios unemployment rate increased to 5 percent in June, from 4.9 percent the previous month.

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And even as he is actively splitting his own party and his own movement by publicly denigrating his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, Trump made a rousing call that America must be united.

But what was ostensibly the biggest good news of Trumps day the Senate vote to move ahead with the debate on repealing Obamacare appeared in his speech only as an afterthought. It didnt get more than a passing mention until the very end of Trumps hourlong laundry list of a speech, during which he appeared more animated when he spoke about cracking down on undocumented immigration, sanctuary cities and radical Islamic terrorism than when he touched on the legislative victory that puts him one step closer to fulfilling a campaign promise.

Any senator who votes against repeal and replace [is] telling America they are OK with the Obamacare nightmare, and I predict theyll have a lot of problems, warned the president, who through the process, senators said, has not immersed himself in the complicated details of the House or Senate bills.

Later in the evening, the Senate decisively rejected the existing GOP proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare, opening what promises to be a fractious debate over a final bill.

Trump arrived in this struggling, blue-collar city accompanied by a large entourage of family members, Cabinet secretaries and staff. Counselor Kellyanne Conway and the new White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, were spotted in the crowd posing for selfies with fans.

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin watched the rally at the arena from the sidelines. Trump traveled on Air Force One with his chief of staff, Reince Priebus; Ohio native and White House staffer Omarosa Manigault; and adviser Sebastian Gorka. Also traveling were two former campaign operatives, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, Trump loyalists who have been spending more time in the White House in recent weeks.

In Mahoning County, where the only local elected Republican official is the county auditor, Ralph Meacham, and where Republican Gov. John Kasich has publicly feuded with the president over health care, Trump was introduced at the rally by his son and daughter-in-law, Eric and Lara Trump.

When you hear the word Russia, keep something in mind, Lara Trump told the crowd. The same people touting the crazy Russia story are the ones who gave us the fake polls ... who said there was no path to victory for Donald Trump.

Trumps speech a retread of a campaign rally minus the mentions of Hillary Clinton was punctuated with the regular Trump rally cheers of CNN sucks! and Build that wall! from the hyped-up crowd, returning Trump to the good old days of the 2016 campaign trail, almost a year to the day after he clinched his partys nomination.

Im here this evening to cut through the fake news filter and to speak straight to the American people, he said, relishing the show of insulting protesters.

Hes a young one, hes going back home to mommy, Trump said at one point as a young man was escorted out of the arena by security. Hes in trouble. I bet his mommy voted for us, right?

At one point, Trump, who recently tweeted that he has very little time for watching TV, admitted that was how he started his Tuesday. So this morning, Im watching Fox News, he said, noting he was interested in an interview with a Democrat who voted for Trump. He apparently had his staff track the man down, and Trump pulled him up onstage to celebrate him at the rally.

So far in his presidential rally schedule, Trump typically visits states that he won. But his visit Tuesday night to the red state of Ohio was slightly different. Trump lost Mahoning County, but only by 3 points 50 percent to 47 percent an incredible swing for a county that President Barack Obama carried by 27 points just four years earlier. His strong performance in a Democratic county of the state was due to his economic message from a businessman that resonated with white, working-class voters fed up with their party and the status quo.

Many people in the crowd said they were lifelong Democrats who deserted their party for Trump and they said they were willing to give him more time to fulfill the promises that attracted them to the president, like protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Its only been six months, said Camille Hancharenko, a retired General Motors employee who said she was a Democrat for 60 years before getting onboard with Trump. Ill give him four years; well, I want him in there eight years. As long as it takes.

But a recent Gallup Poll of Ohio voters overall showed more disapprove of his performance than approve, 48 percent to 47 percent.

If anyone who came out to show their support had concerns about their president six months in, the concerns were only stylistic.

His methods may be maddening, but I think hes the right guy, said Dan Goffos, a native of Warren, Ohio. He surprises me every time he opens his mouth or touches a keypad. But he somehow seems to come out smelling like roses.

Trump, who didnt bring up his frustrations with Sessions in his remarks, defended his style overall as part of his process.

With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president thats ever held this office, he said. Its much easier, by the way, to act presidential than what were doing here tonight, believe me.

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Jeffrey Kluger is Editor at Large for TIME magazine and the author of Apollo 8.

Barry Goldwater wasn't crazy. He was exceedingly conservative by the standards of his timeand that sometimes got him into trouble. In 1964, when he was running for the Republican presidential nomination, he suggested that maybe it wouldn't be a terrible strategy to use just a few of the atomic bombs in the U.S. arsenal to defoliate forests in North Vietnam and give Americans a fighting edge. Was that extreme? Sure. Crazy? No. And, in the face of furious blowback, Goldwater was smart and sane enough to walk back his very bad idea.

That, however, didn't stop the ironically named Fact magazine from running a sensational story with the provocative headline, "1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater is Psychologically Unfit to Be President!" The story was junk: A questionnaire had been sent to 12,356 psychiatrists, nearly 10,000 of whom had simply ignored it. Of the 2,417 who did respond, a majority of 1,228 pronounced then-Senator Goldwater perfectly sane. The minority said he wasn't and the minority got the headline. Goldwater, who went on to win the GOP nomination only to get trounced by Lyndon Johnson, later sued the editor of Fact for libel, and he won. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association responded by adopting what it straightforwardly called the Goldwater Rule, forbidding members from offering a diagnosis of a public figure they have not themselves examined and even then, not without that person's consent.

But that was then. And then was before the age of Donald Trump . It was before the early-morning tweetstorms , before the febrile conspiracy theories, before the grandiosity and impulsiveness and the serial counter-factualism. It was before, in short, Americans made a man who at least appears unstable to a great many observers the most powerful person in the world. That has led a lot of people to argue that we may have over-learned the lesson of the Goldwater Rule and that it's time to scrap or at least suspend it.

That is precisely the position another professional group, the American Psychoanalytic Association, has now taken. In an internal email, the association urged its 3,500 members to speak their minds on the matter of presidential mental health, and if they consider Trump unwell, to say so. According to the health and medicine website STAT , some members of the group have gone so far as to conclude that not only is it alright to weigh in on the matter of Presidential sanity, but that doctors have an affirmative "duty to warn." The American Psychiatric Association quickly made clear it stands by the Goldwater Rule.

By way of disclosure, more than three years ago, I opened my book, The Narcissist Next Door , with five pages devoted to Trump. It was not a diagnosis I'm not a clinician but it was a description, and I continue to believe it's a good one. I also believe the psychoanalytic group is right to take the muzzle off its members.

Consider first that we live in a far more psychologically savvy era than we did even 30 years ago, to say nothing of half-a-century back in the Goldwater years. During the 1988 Presidential campaign, Michael Dukakis took a lot of heat from the GOP over the fact that he had sought psychological counseling after the 1973 death of his brother. Would voters care if a grieving sibling presidential nominee or not sought such help today? Not likely. America hasn't necessarily gotten more compassionate, but we have gotten smarter, and we have a better understanding of the difference between routine mental health problems and a truly debilitating psychopathy. If the President any President exhibits signs of clinical illness, we're better able to weigh the evidence and understand the implications.

What's more, it doesn't take professional training or particular insight to recognize that certain human behaviors are psychic red flags. If you can't eat a meal without first washing your hands until they bleed, it would be fair for your family to suspect that you just might have OCD. If you can't have a single drink without then having 15 more, it doesn't take a clinician to suggest that you may may be an alcoholic. Presidents have exhibited worrisome behavior before: Johnson's exhibitionism, Richard Nixon's seeming paranoia. But they projected a fundamental groundedness too, a basic understanding that certain actions would lead to certain results, and an ability to pursue desired ends in a linear and disciplined way.

Finally, the Goldwater Rule, while masquerading as enlightened, actually betrays an outdated divide between physical and mental health. If President Dwight Eisenhower, who at one time had been a four-pack-a-day smoker , had shown any outward symptoms of cardiovascular disease before his 1955 heart attack, it's unlikely anyone would have been reluctant to ask whether the 60-year-old veteran of a World War was up to campaigning for reelection. Certainly no one was reluctant after he did get sick. So why stay decorously silent when behavioral symptoms are just as obvious?

It's indeed impossible for anyone but a professional who is treating Trump to say with certainty what his clinical diagnosis is if any. But when the mental health of one man can have such a profound impact on the lives of 323 million Americans to say nothing of the 7.5 billion people living on the planet as a whole it's irresponsible to not at least have the conversation. And it's a dereliction for the people who know the most the doctors not to lead it.

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Chrissy Teigen has been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, but now he won't see her messages.

On Tuesday, the model said that the president blocked her on Twitter after she mocked one of his tweets about the Senate health care bill vote.

As a result, she will no longer be able to view his profile, nor will she be able to direct messages at him.

"After 9 years of hating Donald J Trump, telling him 'lol no one likes you' was the straw," she tweeted today, together with a screenshot showing the president had blocked her from his personal account.

According to The Associated Press, earlier this month the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit against Trump in New York City for blocking his detractors on Twitter, claiming it was an opinion-based restriction that violated the Constitution. The AP reported that former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and White House director of social media Dan Scavino were also named in the suit.

A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately respond when asked for comment.

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In his seventh month as president, Donald TrumpDonald TrumpDem rep: Trump can't deliver on promise because of Russia probe Trump turns up heat on AG Sessions over recusal Trump: 'I won't say' that I should be on Mount Rushmore MORE continues to obsessively attack Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonTrump turns up heat on AG Sessions over recusal Mellman: Trump love? Overnight Cybersecurity: Senate Judiciary reportedly drops Manafort subpoena | Kushner meets with House Intel | House passes Russia sanctions deal | What to watch at 'hacker summer camp' MORE. As recently as Tuesday morning, Trump took to Twitter to demeanhis attorney general, Jeff SessionsJeff SessionsSenate Dem: Were trying to block a recess appointment to replace Sessions Sessions planning to announce leak investigations: report Trump turns up heat on AG Sessions over recusal MORE, and demand he investigate the woman who defeated him in the popular vote in 2016. Trump again used the phrase "crooked Hillary" in a tweet on Monday as he continues his fanatical attacks against her.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines obsession as "a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling." It is historically unprecedented for a president in his seventh month in office to continue attacking his opponent in the last presidential election.

I now propose that the use of "lying" next to Donald's name is factually accurate, while the use of "crooked" next to Hillary's name is a falsehood that will remain untrue no matter how many times it is repeated.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!

Recently, the New York Times, as an example of the free press' fine work that Trump continues to vilify published a long list of the president's lies, which has been updated as recently as July 21.

Therefore, while I do not expect to repeat these words often in future pieces, I refer today to "Lying Donald."

No matter how many times Trump repeats his slander, Hillary Clinton is not crooked. As a government official, she has never acted in a crooked manner because of the influence or money she received. Never. Not once.

One can say our entire system is crooked, as Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersOvernight Healthcare: Senate votes to begin ObamaCare repeal debate | McCain returns to vote | GOP floats scaled-down healthcare bill OPINION | Healthcare vote a political death wish for GOP in 2018 Senate parliamentarian: More parts of ObamaCare repeal will need 60 votes MORE (I-Vt.) has correctly stated so often, because of the influence of special interest money. But on the question of Trump vs. Clinton, Hillary Clinton looks like Mother Theresa compared to Donald Trump on matters involving crony capitalism and conflicts of interest.

Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign - "quietly working to boost Clinton." So where is the investigation A.G. @seanhannity

On Monday,Jared Kushner said, among other things: "Donald Trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign, and that is why he won." But If Trump's message was so much better than Clinton's, why did he lose the popular vote to her by the substantial margin of nearly 3 million votes?

Hillary Clinton was subject to the most well-financed and international campaign of personal destruction, character assassination and defamation in the history of American politics and democratic nations, but she still won nearly 3 million more popular votes than Trump.

Clinton was relentlessly slandered by the Russian "deep state" under the command of a Russian dictator who used covert action designed to destroy Clinton and elect Trump, while she was simultaneously attacked with similar defamations by the now-president. Whether or not it is proven that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians, she still defeated Trump by nearly 3 million votes.

Clinton was also relentlessly slandered by the powerfully-financed apparatus of the Republican party and congressional Republicans, who misused taxpayer money to subsidize a four-year witch hunt against her. Yet, she still defeated Trump by nearly 3 million votes.

So why aren't the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?

Clinton was relentlessly slandered by conservative super pacs, financed by huge sums of dark money, whose "fake news" attacks against her were megaphoned by certain transparently-conservative players in the media. Yet, she still defeated Trump by nearly 3 million votes.

Here is why "Lying Donald" keeps saying "Crooked Hillary":

Donald Trump is obsessed and consumed by two matters: the ongoing investigation of the Russia scandal that may now be impeded by an obstruction of justice and his uncontrollable urge to keep attacking the woman who defeated him by nearly 3 million votes in the popular vote.

While "Lying Donald" acts like a man terrified by the facts that Russia investigators will find and the constitutional result they may bring, Hillary Clinton has emerged with her dignity, honor, historical achievements and popular vote victory intact for today,tomorrowand forever.

Brent Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and former Chief Deputy Majority Whip Bill Alexander (D-Ark.). He holds an LL.M. degree in international financial law from the London School of Economics. He is a longtime regular columnist for The Hill and can be contacted atbrentbbi@webtv.net.

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Donald Trump will reportedly make a stop on Long Island this week to talk about the MS-13 gang and other law-enforcement issues. MS-13 is why hes coming, New York congressman Peter King told Newsday. Its why he picked this location.

Trump will likely host the event in Suffolk Country, where federal prosecutors last week charged a total of ten MS-13 gang members for a brutal quadruple homicide in April.

President Trump has vowed to crack down on the gang and targeted the deportation of MS-13 members, many of whom have ties to Central America. MS-13, you know about MS-13? Trump said in April. Its not pleasant for them anymore. Thats a bad group. Not pleasant for MS-13 get them the hell out of here, right? Around the same time and prior to his public beleaguerment Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech on MS-13 in Central Islip, Long Island, promising that the Trump administration would crush the gang through prosecution and immigration enforcement.

Newsday says White House officials have not confirmed the Long Island visit. Its also unclear whether such a trip to the New York suburbs might finally include a return to Trump Tower.

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Nine Republicans voted against the bill McConnell crafted in secret, but they may wind up supporting whatever he comes up with next.

If theres upward revision its going to be on high-income people, says Trump. Yeah. thats not what his plan does.

Who woulda thunk it?

The process is arcane; the outcome, unpredictable.

The former Trump campaign chair will no longer face a public hearing on Wednesday.

MTA chairman Joe Lhota presented some near-term steps including signal overhauls and getting rid of vague announcements.

The senator calls on his colleagues to abandon their indefensible approach to Obamacare repeal minutes after voting to let them keep at it.

Senate Republicans dont know what their health-care bill is, or what it does, but they just voted to advance it to debate.

He may have picked the wrong target for his outrage this time.

The GOP figures out new ways to delay making painful decisions about health-care policy.

That kind of anger scares me, Fox host Kat Timpf said.

Why would Texas rush into the kind of bathroom bill controversy that was so damaging to North Carolina? Its about Gregg Abbotts political future.

Hes so unattractive, its unbelievable.

The White House staff cant leak to the press if there is no White House staff.

Long Island congressman Peter King says he is coming to discuss MS-13.

The strangest of buddy comedies continues.

Senate Republicans dont know what their bill is or what it does. But theyre going to vote on it, anyway.

In one all-too-easy step, the president could free himself from the Russia investigation.

While its handy shorthand to describe single-payer proposals as Medicare for all, the retirement program might not work that well for everyone.

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