I HAVE WATCHED a brother and several other family members drink themselves to death and one of the things I know is that probably every alcoholic has almost certainly lied about how much they drank. Jefferson admitting to drinking "only" three or four glasses of wine a day while shunning whisky and other distilled liquors only means to me that he was a wino. Try reading through a large number of his letters and tell me that it's not obvious that he wasn't sober while he wrote a good many of them. Some of the most quoted things I've had thrown at me over the years, when I went back and read the letters that contained them led me to think he was drunk when he wrote them.
Anyone who told me that they drank "only" three or four glasses of wine a day would automatically make me suspect they were an alcoholic. There's only one thing I can say with certainty for my fellow abstainers, you can't suspect that we're drunks. My totally abstinent mother used to say, if you don't drink you don't have to wonder if you have a drinking problem. It requires no bogus psychological theorizing as long as you don't drink at all.
Trump may not drink but his substance abuse history is long and very well attested to by those who have been around him. His alleged sobriety is no kind of recommendation for drinking.
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