Holder: Trump in ‘Cognitive Decline’ — He’s More Confused than Four Years Ago

PSAKI: “I wanted to get your take also on the other side of all of this. I mean, I just gave my take on how Trump is mainly running away from his weaknesses, he’s kind of just using the same old tired attacks. And you recently tweeted, which is bold, it stuck out to me, ‘Of course Trump won’t debate again. Three reasons. 1) He got whupped. 2) His campaign fears the more people see Kamala, the more they like her (true). 3) His campaign fears the more people see him, the more they will realize he is unstable and in cognitive decline.’ I mean, we all have been watching. We have been watching him a long time, so I want to ask you to expand on that. What are you observing in him right now that makes you think that?”
HOLDER: “Well, he has never been a master of the English language, but if you look back, you know, four years ago and eight years back, his sentences are shorter, they make less sense, his paragraphs are more garbled. He seems to just be more out of touch with the questions asked of him, and the way in which he formulates his responses just don’t seem to be cogent. He doesn’t have many policy positions that he could ever talk about. He just seems to me to be a person who seems to be a little more confused than perhaps he was four years ago. Now, I am not saying he was spectacular four years ago or four years before that, but even against those lowered standards, he doesn’t seem to meet the standards that he had set, those lower standards that he was judged by just a few years ago.”
PSAKI: “Yeah, not nearly enough attention to that kind of garbling and confusion that we see out there, which is why I talk about it. Now, I just played a clip where Trump called Kamala Harris ‘mentally impaired,’ which is outrageous. I mean, it almost goes without saying, it’s false, it’s nasty, it’s maybe projection. But it’s part of this pattern for him — I mean, that’s how I see it — going after women, women of color in particular, in incredibly demeaning terms. But what do you think it’s all about?”
HOLDER: “Yeah, when you don’t have — the Trump playbook is that when you don’t have the specifics, when you don’t have the ammunition to actually go after somebody on their policies or go after them in a substantive way, you go back to eighth grade and ninth grade kind of stuff where you start to call people names. You know, talking about her mental stability, her inability to do certain things, I think it is both projection on his part, but also an indication of, again, that cognitive decline where he doesn’t have the ability to mount a substantive challenge to the person who he is running against. I think that’s something the American people need to take into consideration. Donald Trump made a great deal of the cognitive abilities of Joe Biden. We now have the person on the Republican side who is the oldest person ever to run for president of the United States. And you have to think, if this is where he is right now, where will he be three or four years from now? And also take into consideration, well, if this guy for whatever reason, you know, cognitively, doesn’t make it through those four years, the person who would stand in his place would be J.D. Vance. That is a truly frightening thing.”