Haley has repeatedly attacked Trump and Biden as “grumpy old men.”
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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley attacked former President Donald Trump as “diminished” compared to what he was in 2016, mirroring language used in the damning Justice Department report to describe President Joe Biden’s mental state.Key Facts
Trump, 77, is “more diminished than he was” when he ran for president in 2016, Haley said in an interview with NBC, explaining why she went from serving in Trump’s cabinet to challenging him for the GOP nomination.
She described her former boss as “unhinged” and accused him of “saying things that don’t make sense,” citing allegations made by former White House chief of staff John Kelly that Trump called military members “losers” and “suckers.”
Referencing the Justice Department special counsel report released Thursday that described Biden as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory” with “diminished faculties,” Haley also said the president is “not the Joe Biden he was two years ago.
