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Presidential candidate Nikki Haley turned the cognitive decline tables on former President Donald Trump during an interview with TODAY’s Craig Melvin, which aired Wednesday morning.
Trump recently ridiculed her husband, Michael Haley, or more specifically, his lack of presence on the campaign trail due to being currently deployed overseas as a National Guardsman.
When Melvin asked for her reaction, the former South Carolina governor said, “You know, to mock my husband. Michael and I can handle that. But you mock one member of the military. You mock all members of the military.”
Haley has addressed this before and even gone so far as to blame low military recruitment on Trump, her former boss, when she served as UN Ambassador under the Trump administration. And this is not the first time that Trump has blasted the military, which Melvin brought up.
“But the reality is, he’s talked about the military for years now in disparaging ways,” the TODAY show anchor noted. “Suckers, losers, John McCain, gold star families. What’s different now? What’s different this time?”
“Before, when he did it, it was during the 2016 election. Everybody thought, ‘Oh, did he have a slip? What? What did that mean?’” Haley replied before pivoting to the hot-button issue of the 2024 election: cognitive decline. “The problem now is he is not the same person he was in 2016. He is unhinged! He is more diminished than he then he was!”
MELVIN: Over the weekend, Donald Trump questioned the whereabouts of Nikki Haley’s husband, who is serving a year long deployment in Africa for the South Carolina Army National Guard.
TRUMP (Clip): Where’s your husband? Oh, he’s away, he’s away. What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone.
