In an embarrassing gaffe, former President Donald Trump appeared to confuse his criminal trials as he spoke to a crowd of Republicans gathered for a fundraising dinner on Friday evening.
"We have deranged Jack Smith in New York," the businessman could be heard saying in video clips captured of his address at the Lincoln Reagan Dinner in St. Paul, Minnesota. "He's a deranged individual."
Smith, however, is not prosecuting the former president in New York — the infamous hush money case is being pushed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, along with Bragg's appointed prosecutors Matthew Colangelo, Joshua Steinglass and Susan Hoffinger.
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Trump appeared to mix up which cases Special Counsel Jack Smith is prosecuting (Getty Images)Instead, Smith is overseeing the federal trial related to Trump's alleged incitement of the deadly January 6 Capitol riot as he sought to perpetuate falsehoods that the 2020 election that saw current President Joe Biden win the White House from the businessman was rigged. The case deals with election interference and Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the results of the contest.
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The prosecutor is also prosecuting the former president in Georgia in yet another election interference case related to an alleged illicit scheme by the real estate mogul to overturn the results of the very same election in the state, which was a battleground between him and Biden that ultimately secured the latter his victory.
The quip about Smith comes amid rumours that the former president is showing signs of dementia, with an expert telling the Mirror that Trump's behaviour in court during the hush money trial — specifically, his constant snoozing and alleged farting — as well as his gaffes during speeches, including an unintelligible run of phrases during his "Gettysburg Address" campaign speech weeks ago, are indicative of his declining cognitive state.
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During the speech, Trump also attacked Biden, demanding that he take a drug test before the two debate in late June (Getty Images)Dr John Gartner, the psychologist who created the viral petition asking medical professionals to diagnose the former reality TV star with dementia, also previously told the Mirror that Trump suffers from not one but three different mental disorders as he based his claims on the aforementioned gaffes and behaviours.
During the speech at the GOP fundraising dinner on Friday, which came hours after Trump attended the high school graduation of his youngest son, Barron, the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency threw jabs at Biden, demanding that the latter be drug tested before they debate in late June.
The businessman made the demand as he attacked the Democrat's State of the Union address in March, which he said is evidence of Biden's drug use, stating, "I don't want him coming in like the State of the Union. He was high as a kite."
Trump and Biden are set to debate in a contest hosted by CNN on June 27, then again in another one hosted by ABC on September 10. There are others in the works, but both must agree to the contests before they're able to occur.
The debates will not be regulated by the Commission on Presidential Debates, per usual, as both parties expressed distaste with the decades-old organisation for the way it handled their 2020 debates. So, Biden laid out the conditions for the debates, and Trump surprisingly agreed — there will be no live audience, the moderators will be able to cut off either candidate's microphone if they speak for too long, and Independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr will not be allowed to partake in the showdowns.
Most of the stipulations benefit Biden, an expert previously told the Mirror, though the absence of RFK Jr will benefit them both, as they each feel "threatened" by his campaign, Dr Todd Belt said.
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