The Rev. Al Sharpton criticized former President Trump’s recent backtracking on attacks on his opponents, claiming it shows the Republican presidential front-runner is “losing.”
Sharpton was arrested last month by longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll after the former president was ordered to pay $83.3 million for defaming her by denying sexual comments she made in 2019. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough said there was an apparent lull in his fiery comments about the president. Allegation of assault. He also said his attacks on his primary rival, Nikki Haley, had weakened, and speculated that his campaign may have “urged him to continue.” [his] Close your mouth. ”
“I think that’s true, but I also think it’s consistent with the fact that he’s losing it,” Sharpton said. “Don’t forget, he ran against a woman named Hillary Clinton in ’16, right? He had no problem with it, but he’s losing it.”
“his [Trump’s] The instinct is to fight back, to punch back, and he remembered that back then he was thinking more clearly—what he thought was clear, if you thought you were clear. If you want to call it that — but he fought back and said, “They hit me, I can fight back,” he added.
Sharpton, who has become an outspoken critic of President Trump in recent years, cited a conversation he had with the late Muhammad Ali about when he knew it was time to retire from boxing.
“One day towards the end of his career, Ali said to me, ‘I saw an opportunity, but I couldn’t put a punch in it, I couldn’t do it,'” he said. , “I knew where to go…but I couldn’t punch there.” That’s when I knew I had to leave the ring,” Sharpton said.
“There’s an opening for Trump, but he can’t go there and his heart isn’t in it anymore. They need to get him out of the ring before he gets knocked out,” he argued.
The issue of President Trump’s mental health was raised last month when Trump confused Haley with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) while discussing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Because I could see it, I rose to the forefront.
Opponents on both sides of the aisle, including Haley and President Biden, used the mix-up to scrutinize Trump’s mental strength. Haley, 52, has repeatedly called for mental competency tests for people over 75, and Trump, 77, has claimed she would beat Haley on the test.
Biden, 81, also faces continued security concerns due to his age and ability to serve another four years in office.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows support for Biden increasing in a hypothetical showdown with Trump, with the incumbent holding a 6-point lead (50-44%) over the former president. It was shown that
The former president maintains a nearly 58-point lead over Haley in the Republican primary, according to Hill/Decision Desk Headquarters’ polling index.
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