{"id":15414,"date":"2024-02-12T00:46:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/haley-calls-for-diminished-biden-trump-to-take-mental-acuity-tests\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T00:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:46:29","slug":"haley-calls-for-diminished-biden-trump-to-take-mental-acuity-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/haley-calls-for-diminished-biden-trump-to-take-mental-acuity-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley calls for \u2018diminished\u2019 Biden, Trump to take mental acuity tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday said President Biden and former President Trump should take mental acuity tests to show the American people whether \u2018they\u2019re at the top of their game,\u2019 adding that she\u2019d have \u2018no problem\u2019 taking such a test herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former United Nations ambassador, made the remarks during an appearance on CBS\u2019 \u2018Face the Nation\u2019 when asked when she planned to take a cognitive assessment after she made mental fitness a signature issue of the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I have no problem taking it,\u2019 Haley responded. \u2018And what I\u2019ve said is we need to have mental competency tests for anyone over the age of 75. I don\u2019t care if we do it for 50 and up.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Haley said Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report on Biden\u2019s mishandling of classified documents, and his blunders that followed in the wake of the report suggest that the president is \u2018diminished.\u2019 Haley suggested Trump has had similar memory issues but did not give any specific examples.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But what happened with Joe Biden this week, and what we\u2019ve seen with Donald Trump is another example of why we have to face the reality of the fact that when you get to those ages, you get diminished,\u2019 she said. \u2018These are people making decisions on our national security. These are people making decisions on the future of our economy. We need to know they\u2019re at the top of their game.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who is America\u2019s oldest sitting president, is 81 years old and Trump is 77.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hur\u2019s report released Thursday, Biden could not remember key details of his own life \u2013 such as when he was vice president \u2013 during interviews with investigators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigators, who\u00a0regarded Biden\u00a0as a \u2018well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,\u2019 recommended no criminal charges against the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Timothy H.J. Nerozzi and Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday said President Biden and former President Trump should take mental acuity tests to show the American people whether \u2018they\u2019re at the top of their game,\u2019 adding that she\u2019d have \u2018no problem\u2019 taking such a test herself. Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former United Nations ambassador, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}