A key moderate Republican senator on Thursday brushed aside a Washington Post reporter’s question about President Trump’s mental health.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who has spent hours with the president discussing and negotiating tax reform, said, “First of all, let me say, my conversations with the president recently have given me no reason to be concerned in that regard.”
She was answering a question from the Post’s Jonathan Capehart at a media breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. “I’m wondering how concerned you are about the mental health of the president?” asked Capehart.
Collins did, however, said that Trump is wrong to raise conspiracy theories and to have tweeted questionable anti-Muslim videos this week.
“Do I think that it’s helpful that he raises these conspiracy theories or puts out a tweet of an anti-Muslim video that turns out to not even be accurate? No. I don’t,” she said.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
