Mark Salter, who was a top aide to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the the 2008 presidential election, is convinced there are some screws loose in Donald Trump's head. "I think he could come apart, you know, in some kind of visible way," Salter said of the presumptive GOP nominee on Politico's "Off Message" podcast this week. "I think that's quite possible. ... I'm not a psychiatrist, but there is something wrong with [the] guy."
Trump's "unstable personality," Salter says, is one of many reasons he will be voting for a Democrat for president for the first time in his life in November. "I'm sure 10 minutes into Hillary Clinton’s inaugural address I’ll sort of be disappointed," Salter said. "... But she is the more conservative choice and the least reckless one. She won't — or at least she hasn't said that she would — take the U.S. out of NATO. She hasn't encouraged other nations to get their own nuclear weapons. She hasn't threatened to slap a 45 percent tariff on imported goods."
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