Long-Time Trump Associate Al Sharpton Insists Trump Is ‘Losing It’: ‘His Mind Is Not There Anymore’

MSNBC’s Morning Joe noticed that former President Donald Trump has been unusually quiet lately, at least when it came to personal attacks against certain people. Rev. Al Sharpton has a theory, and as someone who knew Trump for a long time, he noticed something himself: his fight is gone.

While discussing the lull in attacks against E. Jean Carroll after being ordered to pay her $83.3 million for defaming her, host Joe Scarborough noted that Trump is “not striking back as aggressively.” He further pointed out that his attacks against GOP primary rival former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley have also waned “because he’s got his campaign people going, ‘Please, please. The less you say, like, the easier our job is, Donald. Just keep your mouth shut.'”

Sharpton chimed in to add: “I also think that it goes with the fact that he’s losing it because, let’s not forget, he ran against a woman in ’16 named Hillary Clinton, right? And he had no problem. He’s losing it.”

Scarborough pressed Sharpton for more, and he responded:

His instinct is to fight back, punch back. And he would think — and back in those days that he was thinking clearer, if you want to ever call what he thought was clear — that he would fight back and say that “they hit me, I can hit back.”

It reminded me, I was blessed in my younger days to know Muhammad Ali. Ali told me one day, toward the end of his career, “I saw the openings and I just couldn’t get the punch there. I just couldn’t.” He said, “I knew where to go, Sharpton. But I couldn’t get to punch. Yeah, that’s when I knew when to leave the ring.” The openings are there for Trump. He can’t get there. His mind is not there anymore, and they need to take him out the ring before he gets knocked out.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.