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This man is an full blown alcoholic suffering with "blackouts". Blackouts are appearing to be fully functioning, but having no memory of what he is doing. I was the wife of an alcoholic for over 20 years. I spent 15 years in Al-Anon (the sister program of Alcoholics Anonymous) where I learned what blackouts were and it scared the hell out of me, realizing that he could have killed me in one of his many physical beatings and would not even remember doing it. In fact, shortly after finding out the definition of a blackout, a member of Al-Anon was coming home from church on a beautiful Sunday morning, with her 6 year old granddaughter hand in hand walking up to the door to her house where she was met with a shotgun blast to the face by her ex-husband. At trial he admitted that he had no memory of firing the gun that took the life of his ex-wife. With that being said, that is why I DEMAND that this man should not be anywhere near public office

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Celia Sweet's avatar

Thank you all for allowing me to share my thoughts/ experience in hopes of making a difference in whether or not this person is elected to one of the highest offices in our country. I shudder at the thought that he would be at the helm of the Department of Defense and would be in a blackout and not remember what he said/did. I understand he would be surrounded by others that would be sober, but this person does not need to be in that position.

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