Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) stated Sunday on a CBS’s “Face the Nation” that “there have been a number of issues” displaying former President Donald Trump’s psychological stability was declining.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. Former President Trump on Friday, repeatedly and wrongly stated that you simply had been answerable for the January 6 safety response on the Capitol, and he stated your identify 4 occasions. I need to play this for our viewers.
DONALD TRUMP: They by no means report the gang on January 6, you already know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. You already know, they- do you know, they destroyed the entire data, the entire proof, every part deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it. Due to plenty of issues like Nikki Haley, is answerable for safety.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It’s unclear what he’s speaking about as being deleted. However you stated yesterday, listening to this made you query Donald Trump’s psychological health. Is that the primary time you questioned his psychological health?
NIKKI HALEY: When you look, lately, there have been a number of issues. I imply, he’s claimed that Joe Biden was going to get us into World Warfare II. I’m assuming he met World Warfare three. He stated that he ran in opposition to President Obama. He by no means ran in opposition to President Obama. He says that I’m the one which stored safety from Jan- from the Capitol on January 6. I used to be nowhere close to the Capitol on January 6. However Margaret, you don’t be shocked when you’ve got somebody that’s 80 in workplace, their psychological stability goes to proceed to say no. That’s simply human nature. We all know that. What I’m saying is, to start with, you’re speaking about any person who’s solely going to be in workplace 4 years. Secondly, you’re speaking about somebody who continues to- I imply, look, I don’t know if he was confused. I don’t know what occurred. However it must be sufficient to ship us a warning signal that when you look, Joe Biden, he’s very totally different than he was two years in the past. Are we actually going to enter a scenario the place we now have wars world wide, and we’re making an attempt to forestall conflict, and we’re going to have somebody who we will or can’t make certain that they’re going to get confused? It’s an actual situation. That’s not being disrespectful. It’s only a truth.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Why do you assume Trump’s voters care about that? And once you labored in his Cupboard, did you ever query his psychological health?
NIKKI HALEY: After I labored in his Cupboard, I known as him out if he was doing one thing fallacious, I imply, I’d present up, I decide up the cellphone and say “you’ll be able to’t do that. As an alternative, you possibly can do X, Y, or Z,” you already know, so I at all times informed him what I assumed was in the very best curiosity of the nation after I was in his Cupboard. However that is totally different. I imply, we’re seeing he’s simply not on the similar degree he was at 2016. I believe we’re seeing a few of that decline. However greater than that, what I’ll say is, deal with the truth that it doesn’t matter what it’s, chaos follows him. Rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him–
MARGARET BRENNAN: — Does he trigger it?
NIKKI HALEY: — and America’s drained. In some circumstances, he causes it. In some circumstances, he doesn’t. However regardless, he’s like a magnet to it. And so what occurs is that places the remainder of America in chaos, and persons are drained, and so they’re anxious. I imply, children proper now of their 20s, they don’t know in the event that they’re ever going to have the ability to afford a house. They don’t know the way this debt is gonna receives a commission down. They don’t know in the event that they’re gonna discover a job. You see individuals living- 60% of Individuals dwelling paycheck to paycheck. Individuals discuss concerning the economic system that Donald Trump had us in, it was good, however he put us $8 trillion in debt in simply 4 years. That’s not what you do.