President Trump shared a video on Twitter Thursday night that spliced together several verbal stumbles of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at a news conference earlier in the day, further escalating a spat in which both have questioned the other’s mental fitness. Following the spliced video of Pelosi, the clip includes Fox News commentator Gregg Jarrett and longtime Republican operative Ed Rollins discussing her mental acuity. “She could not put a subject with a predicate in the same sentence,” Jarrett said, asking Rollins, “What’s going on?”“I’m 76 years old. I think she’s very inarticulate, which she’s never been in the past.”As of Friday morning, the tweet with the video was pinned atop Trump’s Twitter feed. Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, tweeted a link to one of the altered videos on Thursday night with the note, “What is wrong with Nancy Pelosi?

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2019 11:11 UTC