Jon Karl Buries ‘Truly Confused’ Trump Over Mental Flubs on the Campaign Trail: He Really Seems ‘Out of It’

ABC News’s Jon Karl pronounced Donald Trump “frankly out of it” as he put a spotlight on the former president’s numerous rhetorical stumbles in recent weeks.

Karl joined George Stephanopoulos on Monday to discuss Trump’s probable GOP nomination now that the 2024 primary is down to him and Nikki Haley. During this conversation, Stephanopoulos pointed out that Trump has been showing “more and more confusion” lately, with numerous gaffes, obvious factual blunders, and bizarre statements during his campaign events.

Karl responded by noting that President Joe Biden’s team has been seizing upon Trump’s mix-ups, the latest being when Trump confused Haley for Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

“Donald Trump is truly confused about who Nikki Haley is,” Karl assessed. “Thinks somehow that she was in charge of security at the Capitol on January 6th. Clearly confusing her with Nancy Pelosi, but we’ve soon him confuse Joe Biden with Barack Obama. He thinks he beat Obama. We saw at one point he talked about how Biden was going to get us into World War II. There have been moments and there have been several moments on the campaign trail where he has seemed quite frankly out of it.”

Stephanopoulos picked up on this by noting Trump’s Haley-Pelosi confusion came while the ex-president repeated his false claim that Pelosi was responsible for the security failures of January 6th. Karl stayed on topic though as he emphasized that Trump is “confused about who Nikki Haley is. The person he’s running against.”

Watch above via ABC.

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