Trump's most serious attack on our country starts now

Heather Delaney Reese
July 14, 2026
really long piece today , so just including a few paragraphs … follow link for the full story
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This was not the only thing Donald Trump said today. It was not even the most alarming. Over the course of a single Monday, across two separate media interviews, 35 Truth Social posts, and this Oval Office signing, the President of the United States constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed reality so many times that by the end of the day, no one, not his allies, not his enemies, not the press, not foreign governments, nobody could say with confidence what was real and what was fabrication. And that is no longer just his problem. It is ours.

There is a clinical term for what we are watching. It is called confabulation. I was recently reminded of it by a retired physician who emailed me after reading one of my posts. He suggested that much of what Donald Trump says might be better explained by confabulation than by intentional lying.

Confabulation can happen when a deteriorating brain fills in gaps with fabricated information the person genuinely believes to be true. It is not lying. A liar knows the truth and chooses to say something different. Confabulation is a mind constructing its own reality to paper over what is missing.
And tonight, after watching Donald Trump cycle through an entire day of public appearances, I think we are watching confabulation, deliberate lies, and political spin merge into something indistinguishable. Something that has poisoned the entire government and that has trickled down to every one of us. And is now being aimed directly at the midterm elections.

It started this morning with a phone call to Fox & Friends…

https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/p/trumps-most-serious-attack-on-our





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