Donald Trump pumped up his attacks on Hillary Clinton’s character Saturday night by suggesting that the former secretary of state is not mentally fit to be president.
“She took a short-circuit in the brain. She’s got problems,” Trump said, seizing on Clinton’s explanation that she “short-circuited” a recent answer about her truthfulness in discussing her email server.
“Honestly, I don’t think she’s all there,” he added.
The attacks flowed from the Republican nominee as he once again tore into Clinton as “unstable,” “unbalanced” and “totally unhinged.”
Trump’s stepped-up attacks on Clinton come as he has been falling in a slew of recent battleground states and national polls and as top Republicans have fretted about Trump repeatedly knocking himself off message by engaging in controversies rather than focusing on Clinton.
While Trump in the last week escalated a feud with the parents of a fallen U.S. soldier and opened a party rift by saying he was not yet ready to endorse the Republican speaker of the House, Trump on Friday launched into a lengthy and focused attack on Clinton during his rallies, and built on those attacks on Saturday.
“She’s a liar. She is a horrible, horrible human being,” Trump told a crowd of supporters gathered in a sweltering New Hampshire high school gym. “She’s incompetent and I don’t’ think that you can even think of allowing this woman to become president of the United States.”
