Sean Hannity on Monday tried to justify Donald Trump repeatedly mixing up Republican major opponent Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). (Check out the audio under.)
Hannity, the Fox News host who’s a daily Trump booster, chalked up the blunder to the previous president being “so engulfed in busy-ness.”
“I have given five speeches in a day,” Hannity stated on his radio present. “I have done it. I have been there. I’ve been to three cities in a day giving three separate speeches in three different cities. I’ve forgotten what city I’m in at any given time. I’ll say to somebody and walk out, ‘Where are we again?’ You don’t ― it sounds ridiculous, but you don’t remember because you are just so engulfed in busy-ness.”
Hannity continued, “The guy can talk for, you know, four hours straight and not miss a beat. But boy, oh, all of a sudden, all the people that ignored his cognitive decline the whole time. Now, all of a sudden, one error.”
This didn’t seem like the product of mere “busy-ness”:
In a Friday speech at Concord, New Hampshire, forward of Tuesday’s major showdown towards Haley, Trump tried to carry Pelosi accountable for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault however as a substitute blamed Haley, who had lengthy departed her U.N. ambassadorship underneath Trump by then.
“By the way, they never report the crowd on Jan. 6,” Trump stated. “You know Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. You know they — do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it? All of it.”
Trump added, “Because of lots of things like Nikki Haley is in charge of security — we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people.”
The House speaker doesn’t run the Capitol’s safety however that’s one other matter.
The prolonged confusion on prime of different current errors “may revive age as an issue on the 2024 campaign trail, this time aimed at Trump himself,” HuffPost reported Monday.
However, one current ballot indicated that President Joe Biden, 81, elicits far extra concern from voters over his psychological acuity than his seemingly normal election opponent, Trump, 77.
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