JB Pritzker thinks Trump has done it

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) believes President Donald Trump is unwell and that people in his orbit are almost certainly taking advantage of it.

“This is not the way the president of the United States should behave,” he said, adding that he sincerely believes Trump is dealing with “mental health issues.”

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Pritzker made it clear he wasn’t trying to joke about the situation, telling Miller, “People need to help you, and so does your family.”

But the governor said he wouldn’t be surprised if some members of the Oval Office exploited that situation.

“I don’t think anyone around him on a day-to-day basis wants to get him help because they have more power because of his diminished capacity,” she said.

Pointing to a prime suspect, Pritzker said he believes White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is “clearly the one driving the tactics” behind the Department of Homeland Security’s brutal anti-immigration offensive, put into action by its two agencies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.

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While Stephen Miller has been widely credited as the mind behind the most ruthless parts of the administration’s deportation operations, Pritzker speculated that targeting immigrants was only part of Miller’s broader autocratic agenda.

“He is clearly the person who wants Donald Trump to become an authoritarian leader,” the governor said. “And I wish people could at least recognize that Stephen Miller is bad for the country and that he is abusing the fact that Donald Trump has diminished capacity.”

Watch Pritzker’s full conversation about “The Bullwark” below. His questions about the president’s health begin around the 12-minute mark.

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