Trump defends his sanity amid questions about his mental state

President Donald Trump, coming off a week of heightened scrutiny over his mental health, sought to put the topic to rest on Saturday by declaring himself extraordinarily intelligent and undeniably right in the head.

By personally inserting himself into the debate, however, Trump did little to quiet what has become a consuming question in Washington: Is Trump's mind sound enough to govern?

The series of three tweets came early Saturday from the frozen woods of Maryland, where Trump is huddling with Republican lawmakers at Camp David, apparently in response to allegations contained in a damaging new book about Trump's first year as president.
Trump: I'm a 'very stable genius'
Trump: I'm a 'very stable genius'
After a night of polite social interaction that included a screening of the circus musical "The Greatest Showman," Trump went to bed seeming cheerful, aides said.
By morning, however, he felt compelled to defend the state of his mind. Trump alleged that his critics were "screaming mental stability and intelligence" as compensation for a Russia investigation that has, thus far, failed to produce evidence that he or his associates colluded with Moscow.
Citing his unlikely trajectory from businessman to reality television star to US president, Trump declared himself "like, really smart."

"I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!" he wrote.
Like many of Trump's tweets, the messages caught some aides off guard. By midday, chief of staff John Kelly hadn't yet seen or heard of them, and offered only a clipped "OK" when read them by reporters.
Later, during a news conference alongside the Republican leaders, Trump offered a fulsome accounting of his credentials in explaining why he sent the tweets.
"Only because I went to the best colleges, the best college, I had a situation where I was a very excellent student, came out, made billions and billions of dollars, became one of the top businesspeople, went to television for 10 years and was a tremendous success, as you probably have heard, ran for president one time and won," he said, before disparaging the triggering book's author, Michael Wolff, as a fraud and liar.
Flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy -- both stone-faced -- as well as a bemused-looking Republican Whip Steve Scalise, Trump shrugged off the descriptions of himself in the book as the work of his fired chief strategist Steve Bannon.
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