“I couldn’t believe that the sort of conspiracy theory talk that appears on far-right YouTube broadcasts was coming out of the president’s mouth,” the former speaker said.

I’m especially biased when it’s a president-elect who shoots off his mouth without regard for facts and blames a governor for fire hydrants running dry.

All of these symptoms, as well as having a strange taste in one’s mouth, were associated with people reporting that their home smelled differently when they returned to it one week after the fire.

Ms Benson said her son started foaming at the mouth and coughing up blood, so she decided to try to bring him to hospital herself.

“I’m always trying to toy with that idea of her brain works too fast for her mouth,” she says.