Trump Defends Confusing Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi By Bragging About Cognitive Test: ‘I Aced it’
Former President Donald Trump defended his confusing GOP primary rival Nikki Haley with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, saying he recently aced a cognitive test.
At issue is a series of gaffes and rhetorical blunders that haven’t yet received the universal coverage that I have argued they deserve. During a Friday night rally, Trump repeatedly confused his last primary opponent with the former House Speaker.
“You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, you know they – do you know they destroyed all of the information and all of the evidence?” Trump told a crowd. “Everything. Deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it is because of lots of things. Like, Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people.”
Baier brought this up to Trump in the context of Haley’s recent attacks on his mental acuity, saying, “She is coming after you on a number of different fronts. Now her elbows are a little sharper in here in New Hampshire,” before referencing, “something you said about what seemed like Nancy Pelosi and you referred to Nikki Haley.”
“She said, are you mentally fit? That’s basically what she said,” Baier noted to Trump. “How do you respond to that?”
“Well, I did a cognitive test recently, and I aced it,” Trump replied. He then explained his previous gaffes, like when he appeared to confuse Obama for Biden, that it was all part of a bit:
When I refer like, for instance, oftentimes I’ll say purposely about Obama and I interchange it with Biden because I believe Obama has a lot to do with what’s happening in destroying our country. And I’ll interchange and they’ll say, oh, he said, or I’ll imitate Biden walking into a wall or not being able to find his way, and the fake news will go out and they’ll say, oh, he actually had a hard time when I’m doing an imitation and everybody understands it.
No, I don’t think she could pass the test that I passed. I passed my childhood test, and she does. And, uh, she’s just trying to get a little nasty because she came in third place. She wanted to come in second, and she wasn’t even that close, actually, to second. You know, I have to give that to Ron Desanctimonious.
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