Wolf Blitzer Asks Maggie Haberman Why Trump Sounds More Extreme: ‘Why Do You Think His Speeches Are Getting Crazy?’

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked New York Times senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman why former President Donald Trump’s speeches are becoming more “crazy” on Thursday.

After Blitzer asked Haberman about the reported concern Trump’s advisers have over his increasingly rambling speeches, Haberman said, “There’s been a concern about his speeches and the length of those speeches for quite some time. They’ve been trying for months to get him to shrink them down.”

She noted, “The speeches were shorter in 2016 and they were less angry and they were more coherent. They are concerned that voters are just going to see this sort of unfiltered meandering version of Trump and that it is going to damage him because that is what gets picked up in local coverage much more than anything else.”

“Why do you think his speeches are getting crazy like that?” asked Blitzer, to which Haberman replied:

Well, I don’t exactly think that his speeches were ever, you know, the works of Shakespeare, right? In terms of being sort of straight and linear. But he has always meandered, he has always drifted off into various tangents and so forth. I think he’s very angry. I think that a number of things have happened this year. I think he was convicted in Manhattan, then he had an assassination attempt where he was millimeters away from losing his life, and then he was suddenly facing a new opponent. I think he is disoriented by all of that.

Haberman acknowledged on Tuesday that Trump was becoming “more rambling” and “incoherent” than he used to be in speeches.

New York Times political correspondent Michael Bender also reported on Thursday that Trump’s advisers and allies were increasingly “concerned” by the former president’s habit of “veering off script and ramping up personal attacks” against Vice President Kamala Harris.

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